Battlefield : Bad Company

Rating Teen Genre first-person-shooter Publisher EA Dice External Links Official Battlefield : Bad Company Website

If you are a diehard FPS gamers, you probably live in a world of multiplayer goodness, if not you are in the rare minority of single or co-op stricken world of what I like to call ‘games with plot’. But no matter which party you fly your flag under, you are probably still in shock at the quality of Call of Duty 4, arguably the best First Person Shooter on the market in several years. With a driven and inspired plot as well as customizable and upgradeable multiplayer abilities, it seems a daunting task for any company to want to release a shooter into the market without the fear of it failing in the face of a monolith. But one of the most popular First Person Shooter mastering companies out there did have the testicular fortitude to crank out the superb run and gun, Battlefield : Bad Company.

Yes from the people who shucked out Battlefield, Battlefield 1842, Battlefield Vietnam, Battlefield 2 and it’s four expansions, and that other ‘futurey’ one were not gonna mention, comes Bad Company, the first Battlefield with a powerful and well-crafted single player campaign mode. Now if you’ve picked up any word on the streets about this title, it was probably “Explosions!”. One of the most amazing features of Battlefield : BC is its boast of a 90 percent destructible surroundings environment. That means that nine out of ten things you blow up are just blown away. This goes for people, houses, vehicles, bunkers, sandbags, military instillations, bridges, rocks, damn near everything in this game. Think of it as a wittier yet mature version of Mercenaries.

In the narrative-rich single player, you take control as the newest member of the expendable grunts known as Bravo Company, Bad Company to any who know it. As a first-in meat-shield, Bad Company becomes witness to some extremely lucrative gold running in the back hills of Russia. With little to thank the government for the Team goes AWOL in favor of truckloads and truckloads of gold bars. This all eventually leads to humorous offensive attacks across a golf course and a cinematic ending that definitely leaves room for seconds. Another excellent aspect of the single player mode is the huge playing field and seemingly open-ended terrain to cover. Perhaps the games strongest points, aside from its engaging story, reside in its gear. Vehicles from ground to sea to air, guns that lie hidden in each level, and other, more destructive implements like grand scale artillery strikes, carpet bomb setting laser pointers, and more heavy arms than I care to detail will have you leveling towns, sacking ports, and wasting perfectly good tank-filled pastures.

Aside from the characters, the story, the smooth gameplay, the gadgets, the guns, and the vehicles, this game could seemingly print money based solely on its genre-spanning soundtrack. Smooth jazz sounds to blow up farms to, uniquely Russian local stations that can be tuned to in your vehicle, even standard issue war themes that seem to stand out as individual tracks. Multiplayer? Yeah, plenty of that. Up to 24-man teams take the field to divide and conquer the opponents stash in Gold Rush, or simply blow up every inch of terrain on the field in an attempt to kill each other the old fashioned way. Either way, each player will be unlocking achievements and receiving awards a la Battlefield 2. Whether it’s hardcore PvP combat or a fulfilling plot, enjoy hammering away on BF : Bad Company.