Great Mulitplater make this a must buy!
Battlefield is one of those games that are beloved by many PC gamers and held in such high regard that to consider putting the game on a console is blaspheme, but they rest easy when I tell you that this game is fantastic. I held off buying this game on launch day because a part of me always thought this game wouldn't be any good but boy was I wrong. The single player is great and has a fulfilling story as well as some remember able characters who exchange some witty dialogue, through out the game you grow fond of the rest of B company and genuinely care about them (not that they can die though, because they can't) A great feature of this game is the destructible environment where a lot of the terrain and buildings can be damaged. Don't want to go around the corner because of an enemy tank? Then don't, pull your grenade launcher out and go through the building. It really does add a whole new way of going about a level. This leads me on to my next point, the explosions in the this game are incredible, they may not look as good as mercenaries 2 but they certainly are impressive; from blowing holes in the walls to shoot strategically placed barrels, this game has a great array of explosions and each one makes you look on in awe.
Now the multiplayer is where the true meat is at, those of you who have played COD4 will fit in like a glove here; you have your basic rank up system which is very welcome, as well as a system where you collect dog tags, patches and wild cards which require you do complete certain actions to obtain them. The maps are huge and are varied enough to make each one feel unique, but at the moment there is only one mode available which requires you to either defend or attack gold crates, but I for one think its great because it rewards team work far more than a basic death match would.
Now for the negative points. The first is that sometimes the game can suffer from 'black' syndrome (no I am not being racist, it is a reference to a last gen game), where by there are lots of barrels and explosive boxes which are a convenient red colour, the problem with these is that it can sometimes make you feel like if you aren't blowing up walls etc then you are playing the game wrong, where they are placed so sparingly that it is harder to try to avoid hitting them than actually try, but this is easily forgiven seeing as the game definitely has the destruction as a key element of the game play. Another negative point is that there are certain 'extra' weapons that can only be accessed through buying the gold edition of the game, visiting battlefield.com or reaching level 4 in the demo first, but the weapons on offer are not incredibly better so it isn't such a big deal. This leads me on to one problem with the environment and that is why can we not shoot through thin walls? The thing is, I understand that the thick walls cannot be blown down but why are we unable to shoot through a fence? When you consider that environmental destruction is such as large part of the game it doesn't make sense that they wouldn't incorporate this idea into the final product.
Now I will discuss achievements. There your basic achievements such as complete level X on medium/hard (although if you want to get both you will have to complete the game twice because you don't get the achievement for medium is you part on hard), there are also achievements such as collect x number of collectable, plus X number of gold. And others such as kill 25 enemies, climb to the highest point of the game and then some multiplayer ones such as reach rank x and collect 50 dog tags, so basic stuff then really.
Overall I would definitely recommend this game. Great single player and very involving multiplayer make this a complete package, even if you love COD4 this a welcome change with some great vehicle combat.