While the Japanese reason involves pushing back the invading forces, the Russians do so in an attempt to break the stalemate that the two superpowers have entered in their latest new war. While both developments are separated by decades they are united by one goal, and that is to turn the tide against the USA and hope to destroy it. The weapon is first designed by the Japanese during World War II and later resurrected by the Russian Colonel Arkady Kirilenko. These aren’t nukes though, but the Scalar weapon which can be used to knock out an electricity grid, and cause destruction without the dangerous radioactive effects. The imagining of an all out war in Bad Company 2 revolves around a weapon of mass destruction. After all, it is a relationship that shaped the latter half of the 20th century, and tensions remain even today, which aren’t helped by the events in Ukraine.
The complex US and Russian relationship has been and will be part of a lot of entertainment media for the foreseeable future, and Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is no exception to that trend.
