Battlefield: Bad Company

The good: fantastic visuals - beyond amazing sound - pretty much everything can be destroyed - Has one of the best game modes of multiplayer history - awesome multiplayer - very good campaign - great acting (also funny).


The bad: Weapons as usual in BF games dont feel all that powerful - you cant destroy a whole lot in the multiplayer - classes feel unbalanced - no co-op.


The battlefield series has been known for its awesome multiplayer and crappy single player bot matches. But that all changes in this game.. This time there is a really good campaign with the same awesome multiplayer, giving gamers the best of both worlds.

In the campaign you play as Preston Marlowe in Bad company (hence the game name). Now bad company is a squad of misfits and well... People who just got into trouble.
Now they are not like criminals exactly but they just did something wrong in the "regular" military so they get put in the Bad company. You have three squad members, Haggard the demolitions expert who just likes it when things blow up and is probably the funniest game character of alltime and is only in the military to blwo things up (not a bad reason). Sweetwater who is the nerd like guy with glasses and is always worried about getting killed and whatever and only joined the military to get a scholarship to collage. Sergant Redford the leader of the sqaud who is always getting mad at Haggard sweetwater for screwing up or messing around and joined to get early retirement. And Miss July who is your informant and gives you your next objective (she is not really a squad member).
Well it goes like this The B company was doing a routine mission behind Russian lines and then they all of a sudden get left behind by the Military as expendable. And you go AWOL after finding a Bar of gold. SO the rest of this action packed filled with humor campaign is about getting gold and striking it rich. Its not a bad storyline in fact its probably one of the best storylines just because its believeble and has probably happened before.
You will go through seven missions that will each take an hour or longer depending what difficulty setting you have it on. Easy is easy normal is a bit harder and hard is really hard.
Instead of health packs littered around the map your given a health injector which you have at all times and you cannot trade for any other item. And if you do it on normal or higher you will be using the health injector A LOT not because your bad at it or anything but because the enemy AI could hit you from across the map more than likely.
In each mission there are vehicles at almost every turn and are the best way of getting around since getting to your next objective on foot would take a while you wil encounter jeeps APC's tanks boats choppers and each are fun to drive and the controls for driving are pretty good to. And there are also plenty of different weapons to experiment with like your standard issue M4 carbine which you will want to ditch as quickly as possible to get a better weapon. There are also shotguns, sniper rifles, Supressed Smg's, Light machine guns as well as assault rifles.
You can carry only one weapon at a time if its an assault rifle then your secondary weapons is your grenade launcher, sniper rifles have a pistol, Lmg's, smg's, and shotguns have grenades. You will always have your health injector along another item whether that be a RPG a L.A.W. rocket launcher, a mortar strike thing that looks like a GPS, a laser designator which can only be called on vehicles and turrets, a powertool to repair damaged vehicles and a few others. Using the laser designator lets you guide the missle using the sticks which is pretty fun and usefull since your target will be moving around more than likely.
Having a mortar strike or a RPG wont exactly make your job to kill the enemy to much easier but blowing up things is fun period.
Weapons in the campaign feel pretty powerful especially the shotguns which only really take one shot at close range. The guns do feel pretty realistic like the recoil for instance in order to have more accurate shots you will have to fire in short bursts otherwise your shots will be all over the place.
The campaign will probably take around 8 hours not too long but not too short and there are also collectibles and gold bars in most of the missions you can find to get achievements.


Now the multiplayer is no doubt some of the best out there with up to 24 players online and DLC game mode conquest with a few maps.
Now if the multiplayer only had the gold rush mode which is basically a attack and defend game mode only one team is defending gold and the other is trying to take it over i would say that the MP is ok but with the edition of conquest mode the MP is simply awesome.
Conquest mode is where on each map there are bases around the map and each team starts with one and you have to try and capture more and more so that the enemies will hopefully run out of tickets. Each team has a even set amount of tickets and you lose tickets by getting killed or if the enemy controls more bases then your team.
There are 5 different classes you can pick from.

Assault: this is the backbone of each team they dont have any special abilities but they are the only class that has a health injector but that has to be unlocked.

Demolitions: this class has a shotgun a RPG or rocket launcher and is probably the wort class to use on the bigger maps.

Recon: this is the sniper class the sniper class is very useful the sniper has enemy detectors which look like baseballs only with lots of holes in them and you can throw these on the ground and any enemy that walks with in a certain amount of area with the detectors they will automatically show up n everyones radar. The recon class can also unlock the laser designator to take out tanks, but this class has no way to heal themselves unless the go to a support class teamate for some medkits.

Specialist: This class uses only Smg's which have supressors and the also have grenades a tracer which can tag enemy vehicles in order for friendly demo class who can use there rocket launcher to home onto the enemy vehicle, and the can also unlock C4.

Support: probably the most unbalanced class since they have a LMG a mortar strike that can be unlocked medkits and a powertool to repair vehicles.

Each class will have to work together in order to acomplish the objective if one player tries to go off and do his or her own thing they will most likely fail.
There are quite a few maps and they are all huge with the exception of a few.
One of my favorite maps and one that seems to be the most popular for conquest mode would have to be Par for the course. The map is actually a golf course (since when did they have golf in russia?) and its pretty fun with golf karts around the map and lots of sniping places to hide.
Another map that made an impression is harvest day im not sure if its based after a mission like par for the course but it is very well laid out and has lots of vehicles including choppers whichi only a few maps have choppers whicih is too bad since in the previous battlefiels there were flying vehicles on almost every map.
There is also a rank system sorta like COD4 except when you get credits to unlock weapons and items you can choose what you want to unock instead of the game choosing for you which is nice since you will probably want to choose the best weapons first since you start with bare bones basic.
You can get EXP to rank up by doing several different things. Killing an enemy gets you ten, getting a kill assist gets you 3, healing a teamate gets you 15 repairing a freindly vehicle gets you 15, destroying an enemy vehicle gets you ten, a headshot 5, defending a base or objective 3. And a squad asisst gets you 6. There are lots of ways to get EXP and that was just a few of teh many ways to get EXP.
The players on each team on divided into different squads of 4 players per squad if there are enough players if not then there will be odd numbers in the squad. Sticking with your squad is almost always neccesary if you want to survive. And quite a lot i actually felt like apart of something when me and my squad did something another squad couldnt it just gives you the feeling of acomplishment.
But the bad thing about squads is that if have a headset those are the only people you can talk to during the entire game. Now i know that DICE did that to make it feel more tactical but not being able to talk strategy with other players besides your squad frankly it kinda sucks.
You can rank up as far as rank 25 and when you reach it you unlock weapons only avalible to those that are rank 25. It might seem like a low rank givem in cod4 you can rank up to level 55 ten times and halo 3 takes a long long time to ever even begin to get to the last rank. But it does take a little while to rank all the way up and heck im not going to stop playing after ranking up all the way. The multiplayer is too damn fun.


The sound is no doubt THE best sound i have ever heard in a game. Sniper shots echo while indoor fights echo crazy and your footsteps echo in side as well and so does reloading your weapon. And bullet shells hitting the ground sounds real almost. And it should almost be a sin to play this game with surround sound. And also the acting is very good. And this game is home to the funniest cutscenes EVER.

The graphics also are very very well done. From character animation to vehicles, trees, weapons it is all very very well done.


While the past battlefield games have had crappy single player bot sessions and awesome multiplayer. We now have the best of both. With an awesome and funfilled campaign to the beyond awesome multiplayer that can easily rival call of duty 4's multiplayer. This game is far beyond worth the asking price.