Battlefield: Bad Company

Yes, the first one.  I’ll get part 2 sometime in the future, perhaps around the time part 3 is released. I’m not in a hurry, might as well try to get as much as possible out of each. And people are still playing the first online.

Like Mirror’s Edge it’s developed by DICE, and like Mirror’s Edge it’s awesome. Unlike ME it has multiplayer which of course is the main attraction. But I like the single player campaign a lot too, it’s amusing and I seem to like playing in team even if it consists of AIs.

My experience with FPSes (especially multiplayer) is very limited so it’s really hard to evaluate the game properly. I love it right now, but who knows what I’d think after having played a bunch of them. However, I have a strong intuition that this game really is very solid and well balanced. I find myself switching between the different classes (weapon kits) pretty often, and since you choose anew before each respawn it’s possible to pick whatever the current situation needs. Nice, but perhaps that’s standard, but at least Unreal Tournament (the only other FPS I’ve played online) has another system (pick up weapons from the map), and I don’t like that one as much.

I have a bunch of other FPSes laying around, including Killzone 2 and Resistance, but I didn’t get into the single player campaign that much in any of those, so I never got around to try out the multiplayer, but I will someday.