Battlefield: Bad Company 2

Some of the best class balance I've played in a Battlefield game. Each class feels like it has a role to play and a comfortable engagement range (hardcore aside), and the smaller maps mean vehicle spam isn't such a dominant strategy. The map destruction is cool as hell, too — shame it tends to kill a lot of either team's options when too many assault players spam nades all over the place. Also a good example of how limited weapon/class customization can add to a game's variety without bloat.

Campaign's fine, but if you play this game for the campaign, you're an idiot.

Although fun at times the unsatisfying combat and lame story really hurt this game.

i really love how you can't see your health bar in these brown n bloom console shooters dude! like the jelly smearing your screen is really fucking immersive and totally not rage inducing at all. oh i also love how theres like 50 RPG soldiers tucked away ontop of roofs you can never see until they one shot you 10x in a row as you retry the same checkpoint over & over till you get it right (hardest difficulty)

yeah it had a few really fucking annoying sections (sewer canal level thing was awful, 2x helicoptor section was really bad) and a lot of lame on rails sections but i spent 80 hours ALONE playing multiplayer so theres that. finally came back for the campaign and its just average, to slightly enjoyable. not really sure if its worth a play through, but for the combat mechanics alone there is fun to be had.

5.5/10

Reviewing only the campaign:

I understand thats not the core of the game, but this is a really weak single player. I played it mostly because i had the need to play at least one game from this series, and i was told that the Bad company games had the better campaigns out of all of them. What i got was some very linear levels, very formulaic, dull characters and story and hand holding from beginning to end.

I dont even like the how the shooting feels in this game. Its not as arcadey as call of duty, but it feels a bit too unprecise and lacking impact for me.

I kept wondering why i was playing it at all. An absolute drag to get through.