With the recent release and having been able to play though most of the campaign and enjoy a fair amount of MP I felt I should make as fair a review as possible.
Many of you know that Battlefield has had a long history on the Market and the way EA has sold it on the PC has been strange but good. The game is free but the patches cost money... Or something to that extent as I am told. It has been a successful franchise for the most part but is Bad Company a worthy follow up?
Well let me go over some fine points. I will be reviewing this game with very little background on the Battlefield Franchise. I have played it on PC but only for a few minutes at friends houses here and there. It was enjoyable but nothing I was about to go get a new PC for especially with the slew of other games that have been out that I, for the most part, enjoyed more then the short stints of playing previous Battlefield games.
Technical details.
Notice how I did not say Technical issues as there are some but I feel its all for a reason. How is the game technically? Destruction, Mayhem, Environments, Graphics, Controls?
Environments. Well from what I had seen from Dev Diaries I thought it would be completely open. It's not. Now thats not to say it's linear by any means. The more you do the more opens up. Most areas are pretty big to begin with and only get bigger in single or multiplayer. Lots to explore with some easter eggs and collectibles around.
Destruction. Well I think the Dev's could have easily made it so you could completely level buildings and dig holes in the ground if you wanted ala Red Faction I feel the reason behind keeping support walls and stairs from being destroyed was for tactical reasons as opposed to capability. More snipe points and higher ground makes for an interesting fight as opposed to artillery taking out areas completely and just fighting on a flat map. The physics seem very scripted with explosions. The walls seem to blow out the same way no matter what angle you hit it at. This however does not turn me off the game. It looks good and plays fun and is a nice change of pace. The fact that some walls are stronger then others and need a few grenades to destroy is cool as well.
Graphics. The game is not a powerhouse like many others we have these days but it's still good. A touch above the average but nothing to drool over. Especially because of the physics engine and otherwise.
Mayhem. The game seems to be able to handle a lot. A few online matches seem slow at times but I don't think it's the game as opposed to gamers using their WiFi to host games or maybe having a poor cable service area. Lag can be a killer but it's usually not bad at all.
Controls. There is a learning curve if you are used to many other shooters but it is not too much of a curve. Tight and fairly well done. I only wish I could map my buttons.
Single Player Campaign.
From the very beginning you are introduced to your squad and right off the bat you set out to join the fight. Your squad seems to get shoved off to do the dirty work while others take credit which I feel is one of the underlying tones of the game as it flows over into most of our lives. Basically after your introduction to the controls, which I thought was very well done, you move on through the story progression. not the best in terms story writing or humor throughout the game but enjoyable none the less. The controls are tight but there are some issues I have found. Once you get your mortar strike weapon you won't want to let it go. It makes almost everything a walk in the park if used correctly. Also some parts of the game seem to jump from very easy to very difficult in a split second. What the single player mode does however is get you ready for online. You get to learn how to use and drive every vehicle it seems so your not crashing your chopper into the ground from the beginning of online. Or dropping artillery on yourself. Overall a good, not too short experience you may or may not play again depending on how many unlockables you want.
Multiplayer.
12 vs 12. 7 maps with lots of variety and huge areas. Only 1 mode "Gold Rush" which is fun but it's only 1 mode. I heard they would be adding more soon.
This is where the game truly shines I feel. It is a formula that has worked with many games, a few of the most notable being the Star Wars Battlefront games. They copied the formula that has worked with the other Battlefields and it truly is a good way to make an online experience. It is very fun and easy to jump in and out. There are 7 maps to start off with all unique and fun with different advantages depending on the class you took. You have 5 classes and you can modify them after leveling each level similar to COD4 except you get to choose which class or weapon you upgrade instead of the game choosing for you.
On the upside as well this game is a much more team based then others on the market. If you have a squad that talks to each other and has a variety of classes like a support class or otherwise you can do some great damage and be a force to be reckoned with. Many COD fans may be upset as they can't really camp certain spots and go off alone. Team play is key to this game so depending on if you like to play on your own or not this game may or may not be for you.
Balance is great. You can excel at what your good at and be a great asset to your team if you play your class well.
The downfall is as I said above lag can be a killer. "I know I got him" may run through your head a few times but thats with any game on any system. Sometimes it can even slow up really bad for a few seconds but it is still rare. Spawn points can be killer. I can tell you in the short time I have played the game. Tanks seem to get me on some maps every time I respawn without even a chance to live. However you can choose to spawn by your team or in a different area so sometimes it's all on you.
The other Downfall is that you can't talk to anyone outside your team. This can be good or bad. Good in that you can be more coordinated and efficient and bad in that you can't tell that other team not to go in the building you just called a mortar strike on(You do lose EXP for fratricide).
Finally. Controls can seem strange as you may feel you get hung up on a corner trying to run out of a building or maybe a little plant slows you down. Sometimes if someone runs in a room it's hard to tell if they are a bad guy or good and then you just fall down dead and realize "Oh I guess he was bad" however I feel this is just getting used to as well. I had the same issue with Russians and SAS when I first tried COD4 and now it's kinda weird to think I ever felt that way. The same with controls and getting hung up on things. I feel it's just a "getting used to" thing.
Overall the game is a worthy experience for me and hopefully for you as well. Some may not like the game as it's a little more tactical then COD4 but still nothing like Rainbow Six or SOCOM. A good middle ground that you can make what you like of it.
I hope this helps in your gaming choice guys. If you have a choice between this and other AAA titles I would say wait and see but if you got the cash to spare it's a buy in my book. Game on!
With the franchise’s mainline entries failing to find their footing in recent years, now is the perfect time for a Battlefield: Bad Company remake.
Of course there is no counter argument. This is what fans of the franchise have wanted for years. This and/or BF Bad Company 2.
When asked why there hasn't been another Bad Company:
“There's one thing that lingers with Bad Company that we've been asking ourselves: What is it that the people really liked about Bad Company?" DICE general manager Karl Magnus Troedsson told Eurogamer.
Troedsson says that he and his team can’t put their fingers on what it is that people loved about that branch of the brand. “It's hard for people to articulate what that is, which is actually hard for us,” he says. “It would be hard to remake something like that. Can we do it? Of course. We have our theories when it comes to the multiplayer."
(Source: Game Informer, June 24, 2014)
I always activate the Black Weapon on BFV Solomon Islands for all the BC2 fans who hear/recognize it, thus starting the events of BC2 on BF5 :)
Derrrunnn. Derrrunnn.
What is so hard to understand for them?
Bad Company 2 is one of the best and most memorable games in the series because:
- It was class-based (duh)
- Heavy focus on squads
- Substance over map size or gimmicks
- Fantastic and realistic gun play
- Well designed maps
- Destructible environments (why has this been minimised so hard in the series? You could demolish buildings in bad company 2 with some well placed C4
- Great progression system and variety in play
- No stupid CoD imitations or focus on the store over the game
- It was *drumroll* incredibly good fun?
- It was unmistakably BATTLEFIELD
EA: "As we close in on 15 years since the release of Battlefield 1943, and Bad Company™ 1 & 2, we are announcing that their journey is coming to an end."
This reminds me... I have ME on my PS3 hdd. Never really played it, but it was free.
And it still says nothing about being able to downloaded even when it's off the storefront, that's a huge ouchie for some who somehow still have it in their backlog...
Dont make it an issue when it's not. If you haven't played it in 15 years, chances are you'll never play it.
Online game servers shut off eventually all the time. Doesn’t matter if you have the disc or not. Even if you have the disc, it’ll be just paperweight unless the game lets you connect directly to a friend or LAN play.
Read the article bro. They are delisting the games, including mirrors edge which is an offline game. Online servers i can understand, not being able to buy/download the games anymore? Completely separate issue, especially seeing as how some these games had lengthy sp campaigns and not just mp.
Some brilliant minds created servers to keep these old online games alive. A lot of ps2 and ps3 games that had there servers shut down a long time ago have been restored by fans to keep it going. Warhawk, killzone 2, socom 2/ confrontation, resident evil outbreak series, etc.
The disc still exist. I don’t understand the issue. You guys are upset about that “all digital future” yet these games are not “digital only”. Hell digital only is a minority in the gaming world and so far we haven’t moved into it, the only digital only games are games as a service or online only games, which end up failing in the end.
This is no different than a store that stops selling old games, just go and buy a copy somewhere else. So which is it, you hate all digital or you like it? Make up your mind.
Talk about missing the point entirely. I'm not going to sit here and explain it to you, figure it out.
Talk about whining about something and not wanting to explain from an off handed sarcastic original comment.
I got the point just fine. You’re literally complaining about something that has an easy alternative to it.
@ManMarmalade
No I got it, it has to do with the push towards a future of all digital and reprocussions of losing games. Something I already stayed that hasn’t happened nor is it large enough right now to cause any issues as the games that are all digital are online only to begin with or make up the minority of games
So I’ll say it again, the disc still exists for these games that are over a decade old and can still be played easily. You guys are contradicting the whole “we don’t want a digital only future” crying when the dude I originally responded to stated:
“Read the article bro. They are delisting the games, including mirrors edge which is an offline game. Online servers i can understand, not being able to buy/download the games anymore? Completely separate issue, especially seeing as how some these games had lengthy sp campaigns and not just mp.“
So again, which is it? Do you hate all digital or do you want it?
On PC I don't think it's much of a problem but I'm sad to see BF43 being shut down. I haven't played it in a while since it's stuck on PS3, but i preferred it way more over BF3. It was the lack of invisible barriers which made it better for me.
Does anyone play the last BF anymore? I searched crossplay servers and it was 20 people the most on all the servers? Can never find a game
The last BC you mean? I was still able to find 10v10 on ps3 2 years ago on NA servers during the evenings. I have all the free and paid dlc installed, but there want any matches in the Vietnam dlc.
With this multiplayer experiment going every way but right, it's time for Battlefield to return to what made it so great - a fun single player mode coupled with classic multiplayer.
Yes, because there is no way they could screw up a BFBC 3 like they just did the last 2 Battlefield games, right?. /s
They're not the same DICE devs they used to be they're just EA puppets. You will just keep getting COD/APEX/SEIGE BF games now, because idiots keep throwing money at EA for this garbage.
BF is dead especially after this abysmal release.. what have EA done to this beloved franchise.. it’s really upsetting they are so far disconnected from what the actual fans want from this series.. such a same
If they would of made BC3 and stuck to the same formula as BC2 but gave it the next gen treatment it would of been a massive hit
Tbh, I think BF 2042 was a battle royale, and then they changed direction mid-development and didn't have enough time to finish it properly before EA's deadline. Specialists make more sense in a br, for example.
Like Halo Infinite before its delay, it needed at least an extra year of development. When you think about it, Infinite had 6 years and BF 2042 had just 3 years. It seems that's just not enough time to make a high quality AAA game anymore.
Here's evidence for BF 2042 originally being a battle royale game, heavily influenced by Apex Legends:
https://gamerant.com/battle...
Thing is i dont think they're capable of capturing what made those fun/different anymore.
They actually admitted that in an interview a while back. They quite openly said they had no idea what made those games so popular and how to recapture it.
Maybe if they actually went and played BC2 they would find out.
I mean, if they can bring back fun Star Wars single player games, anything's possible, yeah?
I think that says more about the people working on games nowadays. They have no idea what they are doing and aren't true gamers themselves. Because gaming is a billion money industry they follow the orders of the business men and investors who only look at making maximum profit of games.
Look at the beta and the launch of Battlefield 2042 alone; how can you not see the negative reactions of the community coming? That alone tells us enough of the people involved in making the game.
Really? They don't understand what made the Bad Company games popular, or they just don't want to admit what made them popular...That is most likely what the creatively bankrupt writers of the Disney made Star Wars films say about The original trilogy. They don't want to admit that the people before them were just better and that ALL the things that make the Bad company games great are the same things that they probably deem "problematic". Just think how they would destroy Haggard if they made a new game? Everything about his character makes modern game developers sob and run for the first safe space filled with teddys and the soothing voice if Anita Sarkeesian piped in from a speaker in the ceiling.
Like Ubisoft and the recent Splinter Cell rumors, I don’t trust EA/DICE in its current form anymore. They’d find a way to ruin Bad Company 3.
EA knows players want BC3 the same way Activision knows players want MW2 back. They will not make it because the goal is to make games built around MTX and Battle Royale.
