Batllefield Bad Company for the Xbox360 and PS3, takes everything that was great about the battlefield games and builds on them. Unlike most of the Batllefield games this one is for the console instead of the PC. The Batllefield series has put out tons of games but Bad Comapny is only the second one to be brought out to the consoles. For years gamers have been enjoying the huge maps, crazy size battles and the many classes that grace the battlefield series but after a while the game began to get a bit stale. WIth every new battlefield only have new maps and new weapons and not really changing the game much to show a noticable difference. Well Bad Company although at times seems alot like the origanal battlefield games when you look deep down yo9u can see the changes.
SInglePlayer: Battlefield games in the past have never really been known for their singleplayer experience. Well actually the singleplayer was basically the multiplayer but with less players and bots. Well this time around the singleplayer is actually well improved due to the fact that...well.... there is a story this time around. The story follows four soliders of the Americian army and their adventure towards stealing gold from some well equiped mercenaires. Bad Company is a squad of solidiers that are all very strange and just don't seem to want to follow orders. You play as Preston Marlowe, a new recruit into Bad Company. You squad mates include Redford who is the leader of the group, Sweetwater who is the brains of the squad and finally Haggard who is the guy who would instead of talkiing blow things up. All in all the singleplayer will last a couple of hours and the story although not to great is still better then nothing. Main problem with the singleplayer campaign is it seems to easy due to the fact that you have a needle that at any time you can use which will restore your health to full and the recharge time seems a bit quick. Plus if you die you just revive very close to where you were just at and their is no real penalty so it does seem pretty easy. Also if your the kind of person who needs achievments well the achievements for beating levels on a certain difficulty do not stack so you will have to play through it on both normal and hard to get both of those achievements, but it does add replaybility.
Multiplayer: If there is one thing the Battlefield series is known for its the multiplayer. If you have ever played a battlefield game then you will have fallen in love with conquest mode in which each team tries to lower their enemies team's tickets down to zero. Well this time around conquest is out and gold rush is in. In this game one side is on defense while the other is on offense. The team defending tries thier best to keep the enemy team from blowing up crates of gold. While the other team head to the enemies base and tries to destroy the crates by either planting charges on them and defending the charge till it blows or just plain shooting the crates till they run out of health. The team attacking has a certain amount of tickets which everytime someone on your team dies it goes down while the team defending has an unlimitied amount of tickets. When the team attacking destroys two of the crates the the defending team is pushed back to a new base with new crates while the team attack gets a new base (most of the time) and recieves more tickets. Its a pretty fun new game type and its nice to see the guys at EA change the gameplay a bit. Of course the class system is back with five classes, you have things like your support who can heal team mates, repair vehicheles and even call in mortar strikes. But then you also have the scout who uses a sniper rifle to kill his foes and can even call in missilies to destroy enemy vehicles. All the five classes play differently and its always a nice thing to change up the gameplay whenever you wish.
Final Thoughts: Batllefield Bad company is a great way to introduce such a great game from the PC to the consoles. The singleplayer for once is great and tells a pretty funny and intresting story while also looking great. Although the graphics may not be crysis great there still not bad. SIngleplayer does seem a bit short at times and also seems way to easy but still a nice touch to have. Multiplayer is great as always although it would be nice to get conquest mode apon release instead of having it as DLC in the future. If your bored during the summer time, need a shooter to quench your thirst or just want some crazy multiplayer then this game is a definate great buy for you.
