Battlefield: Bad Company is ready to offer players more modern warfare for those who can’t get enough of it. The only problem with that is that Bad Company pales in comparison to Call of Duty 4, the best modern first-person shooter on the market. With that being said, let’s dive deeper into a few reasons why one may want to own a copy of Battlefield: Bad Company
Pitting players in within large scale battles online, Bad Company is by all means a decent game with a couple redeeming qualities. The first of which is the massive online battles that take place. Allowing up to 24 players to duke it out online, Bad Company’s online play is broken down into “attackers vs. defenders” gameplay. The defenders must defend their gold crates as the attackers continue on their position. If the attackers manage to capture the gold crates at the first position on the map, the defenders have to fall back to defend another set of gold crates. This continues until the attacking team captures all the crates or the defenders are able to hold them off within the time limit. The other victory condition is to have the other team run out of respawns.
Even with this entertaining multiplayer option, Bad Company only has eight maps to play on. There simply aren’t enough environments to play through to give players a reason to keep coming back. Bad Company needs more maps added to help diversify the online play whether they are free download content or not. When other games in the same genre offer somewhere in the mid-teens in terms of map count, it’s apparent that Bad Company is lacking with diversity online. Another missing element that needs to be included in every shooter nowadays is co-op. If there was a co-op mode added in, or any other type of multiplayer mode for that fact, Bad Company would retain a lot more replay value. Thankfully, with all this judgment on their multiplayer, at least the game runs smooth online.
The other redeeming quality of Bad Company has to be the new Frostbite Engine that permits destructible environments. Players can run over trees, shoot holes into buildings, and practically decimate anything that is set before them. While it does the change up the game visually, the online gameplay it’s not as enjoyable with the addition of destructible environments. When a multiplayer game starts off, many players will rush to a tank and start their barrage of attacks from across the map destroying every building they can so players who don’t like using vehicles are stuck out in the open without any form of defense. Not the most enjoyable aspect of a first-person shooter, especially since the tanks takes three rockets to blow up.
