Heart of Darkness

"Then we're gonna be waiting for CSI New Jersey here to tell us what we already know!"

- Haggard

Heart of Darkness is the third level in Battlefield: Bad Company 2. It takes place in the Jungle as Bad Company begin their search for the 'spook' (quote Sweetwater) Aguire. B-Company starts off evading an RPG fired by a paramilitary combantant, but then they have to fight through a village, logging camps and up into the hills. All the time, they have to fight South American militiamen, while being battered by rain, sun and the odd 7.62mm bullet.

Main Objectives

 * Investigate the village
 * Defend the Village
 * destroy the PT boat
 * continue searching for Aguire
 * RV with Flynn's weapon crate
 * Clear the Militia Logging Camp
 * Clear the Villages

Walkthrough
The player starts out in a river, and follows his squad into a gutted out village. B-Company then finds a trail that would lead to Aguire, and begin to follow it, but are attacked by a force of Militia, including a PT boat, an RPG and several automatic weapons. After finding an old wooden boat for transport, they drive down a river, with militiamen shadowing the boat, before ambushing them as they run aground. The team pushes through, and rendezvous with a weapon crate, which Flynn has dropped for support. The team then acquires a PT boat, and push towards a logging camp, where they face more enemies. Finally, a quick push through a village ends the level.

Trivia

 * The level's title likely refers to the same-named novella by Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness. The main part of the novella takes place on a riverboat going up what is suspected to be the Congo river (the author never directly refers to the river's name, but does give strong evidence to support this theory), in search of a Ivory trader, who is discovered to have become mad and established himself as a god-like figure among the natives. An interesting correlation is that the protagonist is named Marlow, quite similar to Bad Company's main character, Preston Marlowe.
 * There is an MG3 placed by the wooden boat next to a house. This provides some extra firepower for the player as he/she wouldn't have unlocked many weapons so far in the campaign.