Battlefield : Bad Company
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Battlefield is widely renowned as one of the best multiplayer first person shooter titles around, but a single player campaign has always been blatantly lacking. Developers, EA Dice, look to put that right in Battlefield : Bad Company.
The first person shooter is arguably the most competitive genre at the moment, and that’s unlikely to change any time soon with some eagerly anticipated titles just on the horizon. However, Battlefield makes a successful return in the form of Bad Company, as it brings big improvements to what was already a very strong game experience in it’s previous titles.
As I already mentioned, Battlefield Bad Company boasts, for the first time, a proper stand-alone single player campaign mode. Yes, previous Battlefield titles had single player modes, but in all honesty they were simply multiplayer environments scattered loosely with feeble AI enemies - you always felt out of place somehow, but not anymore.
You step into the shoes, or should I say boots of Private Preston Marlowe. You are accompanied by three other soldiers in your team - Sergeant Redford, Sweetwater and Haggard. Sergeant Redford is an angry man of vast battle experience who transferred to B Company, your part of 22nd Battalion, voluntarily with the promise of early retirement. Sweetwater is only there looking to benefit from a college scholarship and didn’t realise he may actually be sent out to fight. And Haggard? Haggard is an explosives expert from the country who just loves demolishing anything he comes across.
Your four-man squadron will battle your way into dangerous Russian territory and begin taking heavily fortified buildings and camps which are the frontline of your enemies stronghold. However, you will soon find yourself stranded and deserted behind enemy lines and you will lead your squad mates into the unknown, coming across some fiery characters on your travels that you will be charged with rescuing.
From the off you are able to handle any of the weapons made available to you throughout the campaign - from your typical assault rifles through to controlling mortar strikes and designating bombing raids on villages with a laser. Of course you won’t need massive bombs to take care of a few enemy infantry, but it is a lot of fun, so you will find yourself using this time and time again without tiring of it.
As you would expect from a military team made from four misfit just thrown together, you will find your team aren’t strong on team-work, and despite their friendly chit-chat throughout the game, you will truly feel like you are fighting alone for the vast majority of the game - a strange experience with a Battlefield title so renowned for the team-work tactics you need to deploy online with complete strangers. Never the less, this does not seem to detract too much from the game experience itself.
Thankfully, your team-mates being unwilling to co-operate all of the time does not prove a huge issue largely because of the intelligence of your enemies. They aren’t the brightest to put it politely and are often wandering around in the open spaces just waiting for you to pick them off - which is nice of them. However, the enemy do come in huge numbers at times and when you find yourself at the center of a full on firefight, you will find few games with more intense action than Battlefield Bad Company!
When times are hard, you will turn to your trusty needles. The health boosting injections will literally save yourself countless times. Obviously this is one aspect of the game that is far from reality, but games like this would never exist without them. The same injections are found in other top titles such as Call of Duty 4, so it’s not a bad thing. You would be dead very, very quickly without them - especially towards the end of the single player campaign.
When that time comes, simply jump online and play with upto 23 other soldiers from all over the world in a variety of multiplayer modes. The maps are bigger than ever, the weapons are more destructive than ever, and the environments are more destructible than ever. Hiding behind a brick-building does not make you safe anymore, as most of them can be completely destroyed with a mortar strike - that spells bad news for those cowards who choose to sit somewhere peeking from a tiny window, picking enemies off with a sniper rifle.
The multiplayer side of Battlefield Bad Company is, to pay it the ultimate compliment, just as good as the multiplayer side of the other Battlefield titles! There is no higher praise than that. If you love multiplayer gaming, you will love Battlefield Bad Company.
If you prefer to play alone, the single player campaign makes Battlefield Bad Company worth buying - it’s a good, solid first person shooter in all respects.
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