Ars technica writes: "It has taken me some time to finish this review simply because this is a game that has its own personality. That's something odd to say about a war game these days; the market is saturated by 'em, and shouldn't that make the review easier? Not really. The controls here are quirky, but you can get used to them in time. This is a Battlefield game, but it has a strong single-player campaign. The multiplayer is a blast, but there is only one game mode available at launch. What do you make of all these things when you add them together?
The reason I feel so positively about the game is that when I think about playing it, I think about how the game feels, not about any particular flaw. This is a game featuring a brand-new engine called Frostbite, and it allows for some amazing destruction in the environments. Hide inside a building and expect a grenade or rocket to take down a wall. A group of enemy soldiers strafing your hiding place with fire? You'll see trees come down. This is a game with a rather interesting take on health and dying-I've detailed it here if you're interested-but even then you'll feel hunted. Everything I have described so far is visual, but make no mistake: this is a game that lives in the audio."
With the franchise’s mainline entries failing to find their footing in recent years, now is the perfect time for a Battlefield: Bad Company remake.
Of course there is no counter argument. This is what fans of the franchise have wanted for years. This and/or BF Bad Company 2.
When asked why there hasn't been another Bad Company:
“There's one thing that lingers with Bad Company that we've been asking ourselves: What is it that the people really liked about Bad Company?" DICE general manager Karl Magnus Troedsson told Eurogamer.
Troedsson says that he and his team can’t put their fingers on what it is that people loved about that branch of the brand. “It's hard for people to articulate what that is, which is actually hard for us,” he says. “It would be hard to remake something like that. Can we do it? Of course. We have our theories when it comes to the multiplayer."
(Source: Game Informer, June 24, 2014)
EA: "As we close in on 15 years since the release of Battlefield 1943, and Bad Company™ 1 & 2, we are announcing that their journey is coming to an end."
This reminds me... I have ME on my PS3 hdd. Never really played it, but it was free.
On PC I don't think it's much of a problem but I'm sad to see BF43 being shut down. I haven't played it in a while since it's stuck on PS3, but i preferred it way more over BF3. It was the lack of invisible barriers which made it better for me.
Does anyone play the last BF anymore? I searched crossplay servers and it was 20 people the most on all the servers? Can never find a game
With this multiplayer experiment going every way but right, it's time for Battlefield to return to what made it so great - a fun single player mode coupled with classic multiplayer.
BF is dead especially after this abysmal release.. what have EA done to this beloved franchise.. it’s really upsetting they are so far disconnected from what the actual fans want from this series.. such a same
If they would of made BC3 and stuck to the same formula as BC2 but gave it the next gen treatment it would of been a massive hit
Thing is i dont think they're capable of capturing what made those fun/different anymore.
EA knows players want BC3 the same way Activision knows players want MW2 back. They will not make it because the goal is to make games built around MTX and Battle Royale.