Battlefield: Bad Company

[Damoss]

I purchased the recently released Battlefield on Thursday of this week, due to being poor on the day of it's release.

First impressions of the campaign were great! Large maps with long missions, noticed that completing the game on hard will not fill in the achievements for normal - which gives it automatic replay value. The range of tools at your disposal is great, varying from your standard grenades to your laser designated missiles of which you control the flight path of, NICE!.
The freedom of how you complete missions is also satisfying, there is no set path to take, meaning you can just blast your way through a wall if your pinned down in one area.
You can drive just about anything, from jeeps to boats to helicopters.
The AI is satisfying, you'll find you need your health pretty often.
Health is too easy to come by, whereas most FPS games, regaining health consists of staying out of the way of any other damage while you recover, BF consists of a little syringe of which you must stab yourself with, an endless supply of 2 button clicked health.
Dying means you go back to your nearest checkpoint similar to most games although any enemies killed on your first run will remain dead, meaning the more times you die the easier it gets. DISSAPOINTING!
Putting all this aside, going AWOL with one of your superiors, a manic explosives expert and a lovesick nerd, all of you with one thing in common, seizing a huge load of gold from enemy mercenaries makes this game very enjoyable.

My Campaign review - 7.5/10

Online play, I found very dissapointing, there is only one game type available - which is similar to Call Of Duty's search and destroy although much larger and much more hectic, all the available perks from campaign mode are available in Online play, such as your helicopters and laser designated missiles but overall I think the online play could of been a lot better.

My Online review - 5/10

There are 50 acheivements available on the 360 version of the game for both campaign and online gaming, they consist of finishing levels on certain difficulties, getting awards in online play and the mother of all achievements for the game - 10,002 kills.

My Score so far: 400/1000

Summary:

Worth buying? Yes but not for its retail price at the moment, still £40.00 in the UK.

[Ghos7Soldier]

They're adding in the traditional Conquest mode later for download ~free~ because of how many people wanted it in beta.

I love the game myself...campaign and online mode.

[LordKao]

I played it for an hour at a friends house, its nothing new or amazing but its a pretty good game overall.

[Whist]

Originally Posted by LordKao

I played it for an hour at a friends house, its nothing new or amazing but its a pretty good game overall.

Welcome to the wonderful world of EA.

Release the same stuff...make epic profit.

The only way you can it's an EA game is later on it will get stupidly hard. But not hard in a fun way...just hard in a "wtf this isn't even fun because when I do get past this **** it's not satisfying since I know 2 feet later I'll encounter the same ****"

[Damoss]

Originally Posted by Whist

Welcome to the wonderful world of EA.

Release the same stuff...make epic profit.

The only way you can it's an EA game is later on it will get stupidly hard. But not hard in a fun way...just hard in a "wtf this isn't even fun because when I do get past this **** it's not satisfying since I know 2 feet later I'll encounter the same ****"

I find EA games very repetitive but in no way to I find them hugely difficult.

Hardest thing i've encountered from EA, is some of the challenges on the FIFA games.

[Whist]

Originally Posted by Damoss

I find EA games very repetitive but in no way to I find them hugely difficult.

Hardest thing i've encountered from EA, is some of the challenges on the FIFA games.

Well I don't mean most of them are so hard most people can't get beat them...Just hard as in frustrating because **** that isn't fun and takes a lot of work to do or eliminate gets thrown in all over..take crysis for example...

The first levels are pretty fun...but then the koreans get their own crysuit technology in the story which means you end up blowing 5 clips into each enemy you encounter...it's not fun...I'd much rather they just make me fight 20 enemies at once rather than one super enemy that isn't even a boss.

[Atomic]

Originally Posted by Damoss

I purchased the recently released Battlefield on Thursday of this week, due to being poor on the day of it's release.

First impressions of the campaign were great! Large maps with long missions, noticed that completing the game on hard will not fill in the achievements for normal - which gives it automatic replay value. The range of tools at your disposal is great, varying from your standard grenades to your laser designated missiles of which you control the flight path of, NICE!.
The freedom of how you complete missions is also satisfying, there is no set path to take, meaning you can just blast your way through a wall if your pinned down in one area.
You can drive just about anything, from jeeps to boats to helicopters.
The AI is satisfying, you'll find you need your health pretty often.
Health is too easy to come by, whereas most FPS games, regaining health consists of staying out of the way of any other damage while you recover, BF consists of a little syringe of which you must stab yourself with, an endless supply of 2 button clicked health.
Dying means you go back to your nearest checkpoint similar to most games although any enemies killed on your first run will remain dead, meaning the more times you die the easier it gets. DISSAPOINTING!
Putting all this aside, going AWOL with one of your superiors, a manic explosives expert and a lovesick nerd, all of you with one thing in common, seizing a huge load of gold from enemy mercenaries makes this game very enjoyable.

My Campaign review - 7.5/10

Online play, I found very dissapointing, there is only one game type available - which is similar to Call Of Duty's search and destroy although much larger and much more hectic, all the available perks from campaign mode are available in Online play, such as your helicopters and laser designated missiles but overall I think the online play could of been a lot better.

My Online review - 5/10

There are 50 acheivements available on the 360 version of the game for both campaign and online gaming, they consist of finishing levels on certain difficulties, getting awards in online play and the mother of all achievements for the game - 10,002 kills.

My Score so far: 400/1000

Summary:

Worth buying? Yes but not for its retail price at the moment, still £40.00 in the UK.

gift me LOK hat for 60 days, you know you <3 me.

[Damoss]

Originally Posted by TheMasterOGames

I don't understand why there is normal and Hard mode anyways, when you can't lose, dying just means you respawn like a few seconds away from the fight

Exactly, you merely walk forward a few paces and your back to where you were before you died, it's similar to prey - you can't lose.

[Whist]

Originally Posted by TheMasterOGames

I don't understand why there is normal and Hard mode anyways, when you can't lose, dying just means you respawn like a few seconds away from the fight

Well unless this one is different and ment to be played for single player with optional multiplayer, single player mode in battlefield games is more of a practice for online play.

[Damoss]

Originally Posted by Whist

Well unless this one is different and ment to be played for single player with optional multiplayer, single player mode in battlefield games is more of a practice for online play.

Most the people playing online mode at the moment are more interested in using tanks and getting blown to peices by artillery, so it's not really a challenge online either.

[Ghos7Soldier]

Originally Posted by Damoss

Most the people playing online mode at the moment are more interested in using tanks and getting blown to peices by artillery, so it's not really a challenge online either.

I see more people running around on some maps.


Depends on the maps so one would assume.

[Whist]

Originally Posted by Damoss

Most the people playing online mode at the moment are more interested in using tanks and getting blown to peices by artillery, so it's not really a challenge online either.

Yeah, I don't favor multiplayer games with vehicles.
Unless it's clan vs clan it's just a bunch of morons.

There's no point to vehicles that are made to carry a ton of people, because they always end up in a tree 6 seconds upon departure causing everybody to have to bail out only to die from it exploding.
And everything else is just crashed and destroyed because people don't understand that tanks, boats, airplanes, or helicopters cannot fly through rocks or buildings.

Another reason to believe that 9/11 wasn't a terrorist attack but was caused by 2 gamers who managed to become pilots.

[Damoss]

Originally Posted by Ghos7Soldier

I see more people running around on some maps.


Depends on the maps so one would assume.

I want to join whatever room your in, every team I end up playing on are completely retarded, jump into the nearest benefit (artillery, tank, helicopter, mounted gun etc.) expecting to get kills and travel to the attackers base while the attackers charge up the gold crates.

Originally Posted by Whist

Yeah, I don't favor multiplayer games with vehicles.
Unless it's clan vs clan it's just a bunch of morons.

There's no point to vehicles that are made to carry a ton of people, because they always end up in a tree 6 seconds upon departure causing everybody to have to bail out only to die from it exploding.
And everything else is just crashed and destroyed because people don't understand that tanks, boats, airplanes, or helicopters cannot fly through rocks or buildings.

Exactly, plus entering a vehicle = automatic huge fuxing square on enemy radar.

[Ghos7Soldier]

Originally Posted by Damoss

I want to join whatever room your in, every team I end up playing on are completely retarded, jump into the nearest benefit (artillery, tank, helicopter, mounted gun etc.) expecting to get kills and travel to the attackers base while the attackers charge up the gold crates.



Exactly, plus entering a vehicle = automatic huge fuxing square on enemy radar.

I was in one game where my whole entire group was in a god damn apc just driving around in circles.

Only every so often to drive into the enemy base to get anti'd by missles.


=/

I hate being thrown into a god damn team with random people.

The only thing I have a huge complaint about the game.

[Whist]

Originally Posted by Ghos7Soldier

I was in one game where my whole entire group was in a god damn apc just driving around in circles.

Only every so often to drive into the enemy base to get anti'd by missles.


=/

I hate being thrown into a god damn team with random people.

The only thing I have a huge complaint about the game.

That's my huge complaint about most online shooters.
There's no actual clan system so clans are a bunch of people throwing a tag on their name and only able to actually get some real gameplay when they enter tournaments.

I'm a ****ing pro at TF2. I end up soloing most games as spy. I know I'd get my **** rocked if I were in a game with people who realize the game has more to it than just killing other people. When I can build up my engineer stuff while defending way behind me and then dominate multiple players with my shotgun and no medics on my team...something's not right.

That's one of the strengths of a lot of online korean fps...they have clan systems implanted, and let you wage clan warfare a lot easier and more often.