Battlefield: Bad Company

If only real combat was as much fun as the boys of Bad Company make it maybe more people would volunteer for a nice sunny tour in Iraq. I mean, what battle hardened vet doesn’t like playing a little “Rock, Paper, Scissors” in between fire fights? All explosive devices should come with little happy faces attached to their safety pins.

There are a lot of cool aspects about Battlefield: Bad Company. First and foremost is definitely the laid back, almost comical approach this title brings to modern day first person shooters. Bad Company spend almost as much time joking around as they do laying waste to hapless Russian soldiers. It’s kind of a refreshing approach to the played out, melodramatic themes usually adopted by these kinds of titles. It is after all only a game.

Besides the “fun” component that’s embedded throughout this adventure, is pure old school shoot’em up sweetness. If it can explode, odds are it will. Whether you trigger the explosion or the enemy does, is entirely up to you. I recommend the first scenario. As you slug your way towards victory you can take quite a bit of damage before having to heal yourself with an adrenaline shot. You can drive pretty much anything including tanks, boats, transport carriers etc right up to the front door of the enemy or you can opt to hoof it on foot and come in the back door utilizing the element of surprise. Either way, those little commie bastards don’t stand a chance.

Since you and your squad are pretty much rogue and your task is to take on challenges that the rest of the US Army is too pussy to do itself, you may as well snatch up all the gold you find along the way and get paid for your efforts. After all as the saying goes, “To the victor go the spoils.”

Overall, playability of BBC is smooth and the graphics are tight. When you finish the game yourself there’s more fun to be had online. You can join your comrades and either defend or attack cases of gold in sniper, assault or demolition mode. There’s no doubt about it, Bad Company is the outfit for me.