Battle Field Bad Company REVIEW
In single player you choose your difficulty, so of course it ranges from easy to really hard. Online is more or less the same it just depends who your playing with.
Character Customization 2.0
You don't get to customize your character but it is a FPS and Battle Field have never really had any customization.
Controls 8.0
Controls are very well set up. The 'Y' or Triangle button instantly will make you slash your knife (instead of switching to your knife then attcking) so whether your waiting for someone to pass or they popped up in front of you your able to get the kill. The only bad thing is lots of people complain about the Helicopter controls. They are not bad just set up different, because any one that has played this know the massive damage some can do with the heilcopter when they get the controls down.
Graphics/Animation 9.5
Awesome graphics. Ever better animation. The maps are very detailed with grass, bushes, trees, builds, hills, and other structures. You can blow up about 80% of all the walls and roofs. Now this make the game better if your try to pick off a few enemies and they are behind a thick wall, just use your grenade launcher, RPG, howitzer, or some C4 to destroy there cover. You can do this to "sneak" in or make a nice breeze to clean the air of sulfur. Now you cant completly destroy the builds, you cant destroy the second story floor in a house or ladders which is good because the unlimited (unless you fully destroy it) Howitzer will destroy you.
Interface 9.0
Excelent interface. You can use the back button or select to view the score of every playing. And the start button (both systems) to view the map to make sure your not about to snipe a friendly (i am sorry to all my former team mates for not using this)
Length 10.0
And of course this is very since the online game play. In this game there are Achievements and in game achievements. There is about 100 different trophies, patches, and wildcards you can earn. Ranging from kill assist to driving with a passenger for 5 minuets and the game will even estimate when you should be able to unlock something.
Sound 9.0
The sound is very good. Each gun sounds distinctively different and very very similar to real life quality. The vehicles (tanks, helicopters, dune buggys, APCs, and hummer) sound very good.
Storyline 7.0
The story line is pretty much straight forward but very funny. You got some very goofball type character to lighten the mood when enemies are blasting you. Just like all FPSs most people don't like to play with bots as much as real people, so the story is a love hate thing. You either love playing with bots and you think the storyline is funny or you hate bots and the story line is to linear. However in story mode you can find weapons that become unlocked in multil-player.
The Good
I like the destruct able walls because in Call of Duty 4 since the walls don't blowup people can pick you off over and over from spraying the walls again and again vs the whole damn wall get blowed up and you know "Hmmm this cover wont help much any more". You level up on the online ranks up to 20 then you can restart but have a symbol with a number by your name showing how many times you have gotten to 20. Many unlockable weapons from online leveling up or finding them in story mode. You can choose what Kits (type of person your going to play as Support, Assault, Recon, Demolition, and Specialist) every time you spawn and chose your main weapon (that you unlocked for that type of Kit) or if a enemy or teammate dies you can take there's.
The Bad
Helicopter controls get whined about alot. Only 20 levels on online mode. You can customize your weapons. Not for PC.
The Ugly
No sever moderators, there is a auto-moderator but only kicks people for i think 10-15 team kills, so people will not quite kill you but lower your health or sit and screw around or shoot laser designator in your face (which is like a flashlight taped to your face so you cant see) and you can't host a game. So although there a bunch of servers you have about a 15% to NOT get a sever with the level you want, but still that number is low. And like stated before it is not for PC so you can't have mods or other user created content (weapons, Kits, maps, and other stuff)
OVER ALL SCORE 8.5
This is a very fun game. The destructible environments completely out weights the low level system and low customization. Also since this game is not old there still can be a update to add stuff. I give this game a BUY IT NOW because for all my reviews money is a pretty big factor, most people can only get about 12 games a year and this is defiantly in that 12. The price has also dropped to $50 new $35 used (also some game store offer a 1 year warranty where you can bust the game in half and they will replace it for $3 so i would go with used for $38 and buy something else)
Gloat
10% of my 1200 are knife kills
My kill death ratio is 51% / 49% (51% being the kills)
50% of all match I have played my squad was the best
7% of the time i am the best on the server
My accuracy is 29% ( i go Support a lot to heal people and you get a heavy machine gun so you spray often)
Awesome Story
Ok one time i was playing (Online not story mode) on a map with a very tall construction crane that you can climb, so i climbed about half way to snipe. After a while i looked up to see a person on the next level of the crane so i though it was a teammate. When i got about half way to them i realized it was the enemy team. Some how one guy climbed the crane and totally missed me or forgot to get me. So three of his squad members spawned with him....i knifed them all. It was THE BIGGEST adrenalin rush i had in that game (so far). And when i get a better camera i will take a picture of my TV showing that it is true because in your stats it show the Time and Date of when you knifed the person so i have 4 all in the same minuet.