The multi-player puts you in the middle of a war zone
User Rating: 9 | Battlefield: Bad Company X360
I got this game sometime in the early summer and played it for 3 months. When you are trying to take a contested flag in conquest mode it feels like a legitimate battlefield. Everything blows up, everything. You shoot someone and they die, and if they don't die they don't duck behind a wall and heal up in three seconds, they either run away or get killed seconds later when the final shot is made. The combat graphics are good but the repetitive building models and variety of doodads are two big trouble spots graphics wise. The characters are well done, though I wish ragdoll physics could be upgraded as far as large caliber bullets and explosions are concerned, if Fallout 3 could do it there's no reason taking a direct hit from a rpg should leave the body intact. Like all Battlefield games you can drive a variety of vehicles, including attack helicopters. And like in all Battlefield games only the very experienced can drive them effectively (something I always liked as it put the noobs in their place). Probably my favorite game of 2008, a game any serious war gamer can appreciate and I was so disappointed that it received no mention in the best of 2008. A very good upgrade and console port of the Battlefield series. Can't wait for the next one. 
