I've got to admit, I never played any of the battlefield games. This is mainly due to the fact that they are online and frankly my PC can only just manage texture maps on counter strike and Xbox live never appealed to me because the amount of people telling me they had sex with my mother (or father depending on how hardcore you are).
But I picked up a copy of Bad Company because of the beefed up single player, and beefed up it is. All in all it will last you a few days of playing it, as long as you take it steady. However if you are a social recluse who plays a game from start to finish only pausing to empty your bed pan then chances are you?ll probably burn through it within 10 hours or so.
The single player works well, the story line is basic. You play as a guy who everyone calls new guy (surprise surprise) and since everyone calls you new guy I never bothered to learn names. New guy joined the army because the thought of being raped in cell block C by the white supremists didn?t appeal to him, New Guy would rather toddle about in a village blowing up the scenery. The enemy is Russia every FPS?s favourite punching bag, however there is a twist Russia have hired an elite fighting force of mercenaries called the Legionnaires, although the claim that they are elite is basically a lie because fighting them is like shooting at cardboard boxes in an alley. New guy and his merry band of brothers find some gold, this gold is what the legionnaires are paid, and go crazy for the precious metal, and this leads them to chase the Legionnaires across the unnamed farmland of Europe. While they are on the hunt for gold they go AWOL from the US army and basically destroy everything with walls, wheels or legs.
Now the game play is what counts in Battlefield: Bad Company, if you like firing rockets, ordering mortar strikes on poor villages and guiding missiles into the heavy armour of a tank, then this game is perfect. You run around with a heavy machine gun blasting at small bands of Russians and Mercenaries and then blow up houses because they stand in your way. All the time you do this you have your team, which I?ll be honest with you are only there for comic relief, chattering away behind you.
Your team consists of a Redneck who talks about truck-a-saurus, a chatty indecisive pervert called ?Sweetwater? and then the stereotypical captain who orders you around, who everyone respects and has two days ?til retirement. Although he is the captain he leads from the back, I?m not even sure if I ever saw him use his weapon.
There is a break in the game where your team gets captured after some crash and you are left for dead. This is a solo mission where you are equipped with a gadget to order mortar fire and the most unnecessarily large sniper rifle I?ve ever seen (think about the scene in Hitman, the movie, where agent 47 blows the Russian president?s face onto the guy behind him, the rifle he used for that hit is the one you waltz around the country side with). Now this mission is a good change it has you moving slowly blowing everyone up and it makes you think about what gadgets to carry (you can only carry one at a time) I chose the mortar target because it?s the most fun and can destroy any vehicle in your way.
There is one major fault to the game and believe it or not it?s also the best thing about the game. The ability to blow everything up is great the enemy never stand a chance. However more than once I blew up a bridge which had Russians on, only to discover that I then had to drive a tank across it, so the destructible scenery can leave you high and dry at times.
Now for the multiplayer, I never played it on Xbox live (because of reasons stated earlier) I went to my friends and tried it on the very friendly community of Playstation 3. I suffered no abuse, nor did I suffer any defeat, it appears that Playstation fans can?t bring themselves to kill another human but are more than happy to run face first into a hail of hot lead fired from the barrel of a heavy machine gun. The game is great online every one blows up every one, machine guns every one and runs every one over, and at the end everyone has a nice chat about it and a giggle. THAT?S HOW ONLINE GAMING SHOULD BE! Not some 13 year old arse from California screaming that he banged your mum.
Aside from my grudge against Xbox Live, I would recommend Battlefield: Bad Company it?s a fun game for anyone that aspires to become an expert in blowing shit up. The single player campaign is fun and keeps you playing for a while but the multiplayer makes you stay. I was however disappointed to see that there was no split-screen multiplayer, this let the game down somewhat. But then again it was designed with maps the size of a small county (or state if you are American) so finding 3 other people would be impossible.
But I picked up a copy of Bad Company because of the beefed up single player, and beefed up it is. All in all it will last you a few days of playing it, as long as you take it steady. However if you are a social recluse who plays a game from start to finish only pausing to empty your bed pan then chances are you?ll probably burn through it within 10 hours or so.
The single player works well, the story line is basic. You play as a guy who everyone calls new guy (surprise surprise) and since everyone calls you new guy I never bothered to learn names. New guy joined the army because the thought of being raped in cell block C by the white supremists didn?t appeal to him, New Guy would rather toddle about in a village blowing up the scenery. The enemy is Russia every FPS?s favourite punching bag, however there is a twist Russia have hired an elite fighting force of mercenaries called the Legionnaires, although the claim that they are elite is basically a lie because fighting them is like shooting at cardboard boxes in an alley. New guy and his merry band of brothers find some gold, this gold is what the legionnaires are paid, and go crazy for the precious metal, and this leads them to chase the Legionnaires across the unnamed farmland of Europe. While they are on the hunt for gold they go AWOL from the US army and basically destroy everything with walls, wheels or legs.
Now the game play is what counts in Battlefield: Bad Company, if you like firing rockets, ordering mortar strikes on poor villages and guiding missiles into the heavy armour of a tank, then this game is perfect. You run around with a heavy machine gun blasting at small bands of Russians and Mercenaries and then blow up houses because they stand in your way. All the time you do this you have your team, which I?ll be honest with you are only there for comic relief, chattering away behind you.
Your team consists of a Redneck who talks about truck-a-saurus, a chatty indecisive pervert called ?Sweetwater? and then the stereotypical captain who orders you around, who everyone respects and has two days ?til retirement. Although he is the captain he leads from the back, I?m not even sure if I ever saw him use his weapon.
There is a break in the game where your team gets captured after some crash and you are left for dead. This is a solo mission where you are equipped with a gadget to order mortar fire and the most unnecessarily large sniper rifle I?ve ever seen (think about the scene in Hitman, the movie, where agent 47 blows the Russian president?s face onto the guy behind him, the rifle he used for that hit is the one you waltz around the country side with). Now this mission is a good change it has you moving slowly blowing everyone up and it makes you think about what gadgets to carry (you can only carry one at a time) I chose the mortar target because it?s the most fun and can destroy any vehicle in your way.
There is one major fault to the game and believe it or not it?s also the best thing about the game. The ability to blow everything up is great the enemy never stand a chance. However more than once I blew up a bridge which had Russians on, only to discover that I then had to drive a tank across it, so the destructible scenery can leave you high and dry at times.
Now for the multiplayer, I never played it on Xbox live (because of reasons stated earlier) I went to my friends and tried it on the very friendly community of Playstation 3. I suffered no abuse, nor did I suffer any defeat, it appears that Playstation fans can?t bring themselves to kill another human but are more than happy to run face first into a hail of hot lead fired from the barrel of a heavy machine gun. The game is great online every one blows up every one, machine guns every one and runs every one over, and at the end everyone has a nice chat about it and a giggle. THAT?S HOW ONLINE GAMING SHOULD BE! Not some 13 year old arse from California screaming that he banged your mum.
Aside from my grudge against Xbox Live, I would recommend Battlefield: Bad Company it?s a fun game for anyone that aspires to become an expert in blowing shit up. The single player campaign is fun and keeps you playing for a while but the multiplayer makes you stay. I was however disappointed to see that there was no split-screen multiplayer, this let the game down somewhat. But then again it was designed with maps the size of a small county (or state if you are American) so finding 3 other people would be impossible.
