Genre: First-Person Shooter (FPS)
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Developer: DICE
Platforms: PS3, XBOX 360
Players: 1 to 24
For a long time I was only slightly aware of this game, I
mean, I knew there was a bunch of games between Battlefield 2 and Battlefield: Bad Company 2 but I didn’t
really care that much, I of course knew about Battlefield 2142 but I think around this time I
was more occupied with World of Warcraft than anything else and the period
between those two battlefield games just slipped away. Of course, there were
more - Battlefield Heroes with it's cartoony graphics
and third-person perspective, Battlefield 1943 which was a sort of console-lite version of BF1942, and Battlefield Play4Free which was a PC-lite version of Battlefield 2. When my
housemate first mentioned Battlefield: Bad Company to me I was confused, why had I not seen or
heard this before? Then I remembered why I had gone straight to Bad Company 2
before playing 1, it was on console. Now normally I would not play any FPS
(With the possible exception of Timesplitters
and Goldeneye)
on a console, but when the PlayStation 3 version of the game was given to me as
a birthday present from my housemate I had to (or was forced rather) to do the
right thing and sally forth into awkward thumbstick aiming yet again which I
thought I had finally gotten out of after finishing Mercenaries.
I had previously played Bad Company 2 both the singleplayer and multiplayer and
had found the singleplayer enjoyable enough though I was told that the story,
humour and squad interaction in the first Bad Company was much better.
The story begins when you are brought from a helicopter to the front lines, you play as Preston Marlowe who is a recent transfer and you soon find that Bad Company is much less formal then other military units being made up of troublemakers loose cannons from the rest of the army. Your squad consists of four soldiers Segeant Samuel Redford a battle hardened straight talking veteran who is about to retire, George Haggard a crazy demolitions expert who is the mad dog of the squad and Terrence Sweetwater, the snivelling nerdy one of the bunch who has a crush on the female dispatch officer Mike-One-Juliet who gives the orders to Redford. The action is located mostly in the fictional country of Serdaristan somewhere in eastern Europe though it is near Russia as you sometimes cross the border. Your enemies are at different times the Russian Army, the Middle Eastern Coalition and the Legionnaire Mercenaries. You start off all law-abiding and accepting of the military command’s instructions but after a while of playing the squad gets more and more rebellious eventually going AWOL to seek out the Legionnaire’s gold.
Now this looks interesting |
The story begins when you are brought from a helicopter to the front lines, you play as Preston Marlowe who is a recent transfer and you soon find that Bad Company is much less formal then other military units being made up of troublemakers loose cannons from the rest of the army. Your squad consists of four soldiers Segeant Samuel Redford a battle hardened straight talking veteran who is about to retire, George Haggard a crazy demolitions expert who is the mad dog of the squad and Terrence Sweetwater, the snivelling nerdy one of the bunch who has a crush on the female dispatch officer Mike-One-Juliet who gives the orders to Redford. The action is located mostly in the fictional country of Serdaristan somewhere in eastern Europe though it is near Russia as you sometimes cross the border. Your enemies are at different times the Russian Army, the Middle Eastern Coalition and the Legionnaire Mercenaries. You start off all law-abiding and accepting of the military command’s instructions but after a while of playing the squad gets more and more rebellious eventually going AWOL to seek out the Legionnaire’s gold.
The Bad Company Bros |
The Legionnaire and Zavimir Serdar |
You were given an objective and had the choice of how to get there |
It's either this guy or the barrel, probbaly both |
Hooray for Destructive environments! now they have nowhere to hide. |
Things I liked:
Powerful and
invigorating weapons
Easy to play
despite using controller
Great Story and
character banter
Weapon collecting
and gold chest hunting are good side activities
Things I didn’t like:
Game is only on
Console
Fairly short, not
much replay ability apart from multiplayer
Characters are
funny but can get annoying.
I think this is a good introduction to the game :D Thanks to TheRussionBadger for this compilation, and thanks DasUberpoop for his excellent Campaign gameplay.
Truckasaurus Rex here I come!
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