Game: Battlefield Bad Company

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Battlefield Bad Company is one of those fun and amusing little war games that doesn't take itself too seriously, for this i applaud them, the graphics aren't the best around, but i wasn't expecting that when i bought the game.

Buying the game itself was interesting because i was able to buy it for $20 cheeper from an electronics store 5 metres away from the (game specific) store i almost bought it from, they're on the other side of the mall from

one another. Pay's to shop around!

But back to the game, the story-line is rather corny, and feels like it takes some of the actual story from the movie "Three Kings". It follows a new recruit joining B company, a rag tag group of stereotypical misfits, the hick yokel explosives expert, the hard arse sergeant, the nervous nerdy tech guy, and you the quiet guy. This makes for a couple of laughs during the cut scenes but only a couple!

The gameplay is rather fun, the weapons don't feel as realistic as they would normally be for a war game, but they're still alot of fun to mess around with and there is a rather wide selection to choose from. Vehicles are pretty basic, and there is not alot of variation in speed/strength/firepower, but they get you from A to B, which is important because the maps are fairly large if you decide to walk it.

A nice feature, and i imagine a fairly new one when the game came out is the ability to destroy a large portion of the buildings in the game, not completely but down to the skeleton. This makes for some interesting shocks when you run and hide from say, a tank thats chasing you, and you run into a house and then the tank blows all the walls off the house leaving you exposed to the next blow. This more than anything else made the game alot more fun for me.

Then when you start using the tanks yourself you can use the same tactic to take out enemy tanks instead of driving round the building. A nice little feature, and alot of fun to actually do.

My only criticism of the game is that there wasn't a local multiplayer option available with the game, (That i know of, there may be a DLC patch that i dont know about), which means the only way to share the fun of blowing up houses with your friends is online.

All in all a very fun single player game to play, it doesn't take itself too seriously (Any game where you can pack all your guys into a golf cart and drive around shooting people isn't being a serious war game), and its a good 6-7 hours of game play that was really enjoyable.

DocFox01 Signing Out

6 out of 10 Stars (Let down by limited multiplayer options)

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