The Battlefield Campaigns Everyone Loves
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0:00 Intro
01:57 Story & Premise
04:43 Gameplay & Destruction
10:06 The Combat & Weapons
15:28 The Bad Bad Company
17:01 Bad Company Outro
18:42 Bad Company 2 Intro
21:03 Critique
25:34 Closing Remarks
26:47 Amazingly Awesome Patrons - Hry
There isn't a more fitting logo to have next to the words *"BAD COMPANY"* than EA.
Well played
EA Games: Ruin Everything.
I couldn't agree more, bro 😆😆😆
Oh so that's why they aren't making a third game!
I can think of literally dozens. Many of which actually murder people. But sure, dlc bad. Lootboxes bad. People who buy them willingly=victims smdh
It’s insane that DICE made two of the best fps campaigns of all time, and then decided “welp, never gonna do that again”.
Still bugs me they never bothered to actually put in a campaign for BF 2042. Then again, that game is complete ass so maybe that's a good thing.
They even made the excuse that they don't understand what made these games so popular. To me. They can't figure out how to make a sequel without adding micro transactions to it. Without upsetting the fan base. It Damn Shame.
BF BC2’s campaign was the most boring shit i’ve ever played
@@AIeNaz YES. Fans don't realize it all went downhill when DICE started taking "inspiration" from CoD. Bad Company 2 campaign was not good. I don't understand why people think it was.
@@alucard624 campaign for 2042 would have some of the worst writing of any game ever based on the writing for the multiplayer voicelines.
I think what blew me away most was the destructible maps. When you could literally point a rocket and take out the wall was groundbreaking for any game back then
I thought "oh man this is game changing, everyone is gonna do this from now on"
But no.
@@solutionless123 even nowadays in 2042. After playing BC2 and now playing those maps in portal. Things don't blow up like they used to.
@@solutionless123Destruction needs to make a comeback.
Gotta love it! I was shooting a dude in multiplayer and he decided to hide inside the house. Took my rocket out, shot it destroying the wall and at the same time killing him. Best times haha.
It's still groundbreaking thought
The Bad Company 1 story is also basically Three Kings.
In BC1 you can reload cancel by pressing the left then right bumper as well, which helps.
"Hmm, either you do as I say or I'm going to beat your ass to submission."
Well a little bit of Kelly's heroes and three kings.
Bad Company 2’s destruction still remains unchallenged even by its own sequels.
Battlefield 2042’s destruction barely beats Far Cry for fucks’ sake
Bad company2 and red faction guerilla are the best at destruction
Unreal has kino Bot AI, GTA IV has kino ragdoll physics, FEAR has kino gunplay/enemy AI (all of these are black magic in code form), BC2 has kino destruction. Quality games from more enlightened times.
Hopefully kino is back on the menu next year even if it's mostly remakes
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@@RaineErasmusWalker I miss the era in games when devs were trying to push physics and world simulation (Crysis, Far Cry 2, all the games you list). Nowadays games are pretty to look at but they’re so darn static. The destruction added so much to games like Bad Company 2, I miss it in modern BF games where they’ve scaled it back considerably.
The destruction in Bad Company games were the reason I got into Battlefield ...I was so sad to find that there was barely any destruction in 2042
@Trevor White it's crazy to think that it's lacking destruction given thats it's a newer engine!!!
2042? Try when Battlefield 3 came out. Noticeable step back in terms of destruction.
to be fair it was all shitty scripted destruction anyway.. like none of it was based on physics
@@insector2093 Youre shitty scripted
The same with me, but was never as joyful like Bad Company 2. Even sold them back to the store when I was done with them
Both these games had the best campaigns ever. Loved the banter and semi open worldness of the levels.
Oh yeah, my one of my favorite parts was a scene he only showed half of
Sarge: "Where'd Haggard go?"
Haggard, already down the hill charging the enemy base "THERE"S GOLD IN THEM THAR HILLS!"
BC2 was pretty linear. BC1 had wide open maps to traverse through
@@Gh0stGaminginc BC1 was fun enough to do a second playthrough because of how open the campaign maps were, it was a cool concept just d*cking around in the russian country side. I never got into the Bc2 campaign though, tried too hard to be a call of duty campaign but obviously was nowhere near as good. The multiplayer for both were great though, especially 2
@@Gameprojordan Loved the Vietnam DLC for BC2. Those maps were great.
@@Gh0stGaminginc nah, bro. Back then, Bad Company was such a special game. It was so damn good ❤️
Literally, just finished bfbc2 yesterday and have been thinking “this is so underrated it’s like red faction in a modern military setting how does nobody see it!” And here you are you beautiful angel boy to sing for us
It's not underrated at all. XD
The BF fan base almost entirely wants Bad Company to return, for the single player and multiplayer aspect.
@@wardog0086 I'd say it's pretty underrated
Every single battlefield that comes out is alwaye comapred to bad company 1 and 2.
The campaign is underrated I mean, not the gameplay necessarily. People definitely dog on this type of loud dumb military shooter but bfbc2 does it right. It’s as interesting for me to play as quake or half life, and I feel like people don’t see it that way. When you think of a random thing to do, and try to do it that thing actually happens. In call of duty you have to obey its rules at every turn. That type of shit still blows my mind cuz most modern military shooters, especially modern battlefield, have terrible linear campaigns with no room for skill or creativity.
Bad Company 2 is not underrated at all. It's probably the most highly rated one since 2.
I remember how amazing the Vietnam DLC was, HOURS and HOURS sunk into that with the guys!!
It was honestly insane how the game would be mildly slow, then all out chaos in an instant!
It was a blast, but I still preferred Battlefield Vietnam for all the riding around listening to classic 60s songs.
If I remember correctly: Each member of Bad Company done something to get them into the squad.
Preston Marloe: Joyriden and crashed a multimillion dollar helicopter at the Pentagon (Damaged/destroyed an Unnamed US Military General's limo in the process)
Terrence Sweetwater: Accidentally uploaded a virus to a government server
George Haggard: Blew up a large ammo dump in Eastern Paris
Sergeant Redford: Just joined so he can retire early.
I thought Sweetwater accidentally got the government infected with a virus while trying to watch porn? Or I might be mistaken.
@@TheTber123 either way it's par for the course.
See what I did?
Actually, the official site of Bad Company (Which I don't know if you can access anymore) had said that the reason Marlowe was transferred into B-Company was because he was allowed to fly a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, but because it controlled differently than the UH-1 he was used to, he accidentally scrapped a General's limousine with the rotors.
If they BBF cast:
Noob is Preston.
Simon is Sweetwater.
Engineer is Haggard.
Medic is Redford.
And Recon would be the main bad guy of Legion and mastermind of black weapon combined.
@@bloodysimile4893 not to be a killjoy or whatever, but I think you might've mistyped. I believe it's BFFs.
The multiplayer for Bad Company 2 is still my all time favorite in the battlefield franchise. Beautiful maps that were balanced great for rush mode, excellent destruction that still hasn’t been topped in my opinion, and to top it all off some of the best sound design in any game I’ve ever played still to this day. Servers are still alive and well on all platforms & I revisit it often. I encourage others to as well.
100%
Ill always remember the first game for the gears of war parody trailer with the overhead camera shots and the character mumbling mad world, the first game honestly always felt like a kelly heroes kinda game as an fps, the closest contender prior being "The outfit" (does anyone remember that game lol), which was closer to dirty dozen more than anything, The second game was just an amazing multiplayer game, and really divided console players at the time between that or Modern Warfare 2, you really only ever fit those two moulds.....before Reach came out....
Ah those were glory days, back when Battlefield, Halo, Gears of War, and Call of Duty were so damn good and people actually liked playing on console.
The Outfit was awesome. Glad that was made BC on Xbox One as it's still fun to play today.
@@darthcinema4262 I don't get what you're implying there. That almost nobody plays on console anymore? Wut?
@@ronnieradon I've just noticed that more people playing games on PC more than consoles.
@@darthcinema4262 it's probably just the people you're around. for me I get the opposite feeling tbh
I always hoped that the first Bad Company would get a PC release and its still upsetting that it hasnt, the characters were great.
Graphics still incredible and don't forget, the best weapon sound effects to this day.
Dat metallic Barrett M95 bolt action sound... *chef's kiss*
Nah, MWII has this one beat.
@@thebansheesheriff9029 Oh I remember using that in multiplayer and finishing off with the 1911. Even the pistols sounded HARD.
I think it actually has some of the best shooting too, it actually feels like you're firing individual rounds and the recoil is unlike any other game recoil for me
@@dmdvl4480 knife, grenades, and Mp-412 Rex made me feel like GOD playing this on PC in a cqc situation.
The Vietnam dlc was super goated
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They were really fun campaigns and the characters were funny.
Oh man the Vietnam DLC for Bad Company 2 was amazing. I played that even more than the standard game.
God I loved these games. Played an unreasonable amount of both games' multiplayer.
@@I_Cunt_Spell That's battlefield's main focus though...
@@I_Cunt_Spell You must truly be horrible at the game , if you hate multiplayer in general.
@@mariosmatzoros3553 At least his name isn't "Marios". Lol
@@TotalMeltdown2 I'd rather have my name which comes from the Roman Empire rather than a shitty American name.
@@mariosmatzoros3553 Still a ghey name lol. Get f*cked
The most glorious era of military shooters. All hail Bad Company 2
2007-2011 golden age
I'd add 2012 because Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, CoD: Black Ops 2, and Spec Ops: The Line.
@@MerlautZone none of those are good or innovative in any way
@@kirillholt2329 Dafuq
@@kirillholt2329 >"none of those are good or innovative in any way"
>Black ops 2
>Spec ops the line
Still play it on PC from time to time. Holds up so damn well
The cursed smiling on the cover never fails to make me laugh
Back during the glory days of Battlefield and some of the best in the franchise.
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@@SniperwolfViolatedMe You're right i hate him for not calling us sonny jims anymore. But i love him for everything else!
@@JawasRandomStuff lol, I just say that to drive away any potential bots
@@SniperwolfViolatedMe Yeah I'm so sick of bots pretending to be CZcamsrs and scamming us.
@@SniperwolfViolatedMe you should get a medal xb
Does anyone remember BFBC1 multiplayer demo that EA had to take off the PS store because nobody bought the game, and only played the Demo, as it had the one map Oasis 24/7... People got close to actually levelling up when you needed 99mil XP. I remember buying it after, and really missing the 24/7 Oasis map. It was so damn perfect. Loved the campaign.
God those were the days!
lol
2010 we had Bad Company 2.
2022 we have Battlefield 2042
Proof that we live in the worst timeline.
We had BF1 in 2016 tho. And BF4 in 2013, which was great when it was all fixed with a year or so.
@@Web720 yeah no don’t get me wrong, those games were amazing and I’m not denying their relevance in the series, I’m just saying the current state of battlefield is dire at best and comparing it to how it was 12 years ago.
@@kanaima650 2042 was a huge step back from previous Battlefields unfortunately.
There will still be some kid who gets BF2042 as his first online FPS and is enjoying the hell out of it making memories.
@@TPW13 I'm looking forward to playing it on gamepass but definitely wasn't going to buy it after that horrible beta
Bad Company was the first game that I saw let you actually man the anti-air / anti-tank guns that are on the map. Everyother game just used a solid model so it was awesome to see that you were able to get into pretty much anything you found on the map. Also, destructible buildings was an amazing feature at the time.
I am actually pretty happy that you talked about my two favorite childhood games and yes I'm willing to admit they're not the best but screw it I don't care I just love the fact that you talked about them thank you.
Man, i remember when my younger brother came home with a copy of bad company. I watched him play it on our PS3 and fell in love immediately with the story. Kelly's heroes like from the TNT/TCM glory days.
I'm going to get it again.
Something I'm looking 4ward to: the former DICE devs that founded Embark Studios are working on a game called The Finals. It's this PvP FPS where u blow each other up trying to catch boxes of money, and the destruction system is looking very advanced, which is something these devs have plenty of veterancy with by now.
Nice! good to know.. but i think we would rather have Warfield: Good Company
MW2 and MW3 with their russia invading eastern us and europe in just two days: man, no one will ever represent russia exaggeratedly competent such as we did
BC2 with their russia invading east asia, europe, alaska and south america for some damn reason:
Battlefield bad company has always existed in alt history in the first game every Arab nations are united as one
They don’t make first person shooters like this anymore, it’s sad
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The thing that has always stuck with me about BFBC2 was the eardum-popping explosion SFX. One of the most iconic sounds of the franchise.
BC2 multiplayer still holds up today. Awesome maps and gameplay.
The squad you run with in the campaign reminded me of how good SW Republic Commando was. Really wish we had gotten a sequel, because it left us on a damn cliffhanger.
Still remember playing through these with my dad watching being blown the fuck away by the destruction. Good damn times
For Bad Company 2: The driving sections where you can drive yourself i used the third person camera all the way and for the mortar section you just have to listen to Sarge and only move when he says you should, then it's not problem at all.
the vehicle section where you have to shoot behind you, it's a matter of aiming right. you kill everything with one or two hits and they are spawning the same way everytime.
believe me i've played this campain way more then i should have probably, just for the charme of it over the years.
That damn piano menu theme is still my ring tone to this day
Man you mentioning Battlefield Modern Combat just brought back some amazing memories I had of that game. Probably still have it and a ps2 console, might go and play it again.
Also imo the BF BC2 multiplayer was the best out of them all.
Fans - We love the destruction DICE! give us more
DICE - Okay we will tone down the destruction with each iteration :)
I started watching your videos about a year ago and you have recently covered all of my all time favorite single players games. And now this!!! This is my childhood man. Thanks for covering it. Have a great day
Man i really should replay these campaigns...
The best thing coming home to after a long nights of work. Is one of your videos mate. Cheers!
Fuck yeah, man. Battlefields just special. What a great video idea
never caught one of your vids this early. keep up the good work man!
War tapes in Bad Company 2 is insane with a good headset
Bad Company is one of my favorite "T rated" shooters I grabbed when I was a kid and couldn't get my parents to buy me M games. Good times:).
They really towed the line on the T rating aswell. Tons of swearing (probably the only T rated game I've ever played where people regularly yelled "sh*t" and "b*tch") and extreme violence. I guarantee you the only thing that stopped it being M rated was the lack of blood.
Ah the nostalgia. Thanks for covering these two rough gems :). Good times were had.
Among other things, BC2 had absolutely amazing audio.
Firing the m95 and the m60 in the atacama desert level and hearing the echo is so good.
I just started re-playing both of these on Series X and they’re better than I remember. Great timing Gman!On a 16 channel Atmos setup using the DSU or Auro3D upmixer, it sounds exponentially better than the last time I played this during my 2nd year in the Army using a simple 2.1 setup. Your quote about sound design is spot on, I currently work with quite a few developers using the Dolby Atmos renderer to mix and properly place objects in the immersive sound field as opposed to legacy codecs which use channel based sound. It does require the user to have a minimum of 2 (in all reality 4 for the proper imaging of front to back and side to side overhead audio) but the difference when properly placed and calibrated is night and day compared to a conventional 5 or 7 channel bed layer setup or Soundbar. Atmos for headphones relies on HTRF (head tracking related function) which is far from being perfected and the results vary greatly in a similar way that there’s excellent examples of native Dolby Atmos and DTS:X soundtracks as well as sub par ones.
Remember when Battlefield had a theme song?
Instead of broken sound design pretending to be music (2042)
Modern Combat was one of my most favorite games; a bit arcadey, but once you get the momentum going, you become an actual Super Soldier! I need to note that for my Awards List.
BFBC 1 is my #1 favorite shooter game. It was my first. I remember the first mission, I did not know the controller sticks clicked in to crouch so I was stuck in the very beginning for a long time. I felt stupid when I figured out.
Some of my favourite games ever. Cool to see you mention Modern Combat as well, it was awesome. It actually did have a story though, I played it again not too long ago.
Bc1 was great, one of my favorites
I remember getting Bad Company 1 for Easter in 2010. It's funny that you mention that you liked the mission when you were separated from your squad, because 13 year old me found that frustratingly hard and I never finished the game because of it.
Still remember how amazing the sound effects were. I turned it up high and My neighbor thought that there was a literal war zone in my living room.
Duuuuuuuude! So fucking happy you decided to do a video for these.
My favorite military shooter campaigns for sure.
I have a fond memory of these games. BF:BB2 multiplayer is unchallenged to this day of how concise, well-designed, and how much variety it had. Yeah had so much fun back in the day with it. I might be seeing it through rose colored glasses, but when BF3 came out that was the end of great BF games
The bad company games were both just masterpieces i have SO MANY memories playing BC2 with a buddy late at night playing for hours i got so excited when they announced portals in 2042 (obviously it turned out to be a disappointment) but the XM8 prototype is still i think my favorite video game weapon EVER it was SO good and sounded so NASTY i would also like to say thanks for posting this I've been very sick and watching you're content makes me happy hoping my kids and wife don't catch whatever the fuck i have
Thank you so much for reviewing these
I'm glad you're doing a review this I remember this game fondly
The online play in Battlefield Bad Company was super underrated for the time. Bad company was such a great game. I wish I could go back and play a game of gold rush.
If you have it on PlayStation the servers should still be active with some players
I also did quick search where someone was playing on Xbox 5 months ago with full server
Im buying it on PS3, come join the fun mate
Man i missed Sarge and the boys, the banter the squad had in BF:BC2 was priceless. I used to slow play the hell out of missions just to see what they would talk about if you didnt rush through the missions. When Flynn was killed and went to the great bong in the sky i had to take a moment of silence and rip a fat bong rip for him. That game was the highest point in the Battlefield series in my opinion, it all started going down hill after that...
Bad Company 2 was my first battlefield game. Made me fall in love with the series.
i remember thinming Modern Combat was soooo cool. the way you could hotswitch to and from any soldier on the field was awesome - i wish we had a modern game with that system.
Bad Company were the best characters in the entire series. And they never revisit them for some reason....
Oh man, back when games were just *fun*
Man, you reviewed so many games I used to not be allowed to play but would always play with my friend whenever I was over at his house. Gonna binge watch these!
I think Battlefield 2: Modern Combat's campaign is incredibly underrated. It's exactly what someone (like me) who played the series up to that point would expect a story-focused BF game to look like, with more emphasis on the factions and the war than on individual characters, and taking part in large-scale battles where you fight alongside dozens of friendly soldiers rather than just a couple of squad-mates.
Shame bfbc2 on pc is dead but there is some hope with bots being finally made and more or less working to keep the game alive. It's on a server called f&f.
“Oh look new guys dead “
I love seeing reviews of this game. Back when proper demos were still a thing and oh boy, still listening to Milt Buckner - The Beast til this very day! I still look back at it with fond memories. Replayed the games last year, still loving it! I still remember completing the single player of BF:BC2 at the time. ''The war isn't over, they're coming through Alaska.'' and then I started the multiplayer and went directly into a match, I got parachuted into Nelson Bay. Felt like a direct continuation of the single player into multiplayer. Could have been just luck that I got Nelson Bay d: Still a great memory and experience!
OMG that's so cool you brought up a reference to Kelly's Heroes, that makes me so happy. I kinda always thought the gold sub plot was a reference to Kelly's heroes.
Glad i finally platinum this game.
Will you ever review CoD World at War?
Bad Company 2 is still my fav BF entry. Even platin'd it.
I think lvl 21 was the last lvl to unlock a weapon and still kept playing for months because the gameplay itself was so much fun. Well balanced, awesome map design, rush mode was so good. Even the single player campaign was fun. Ah yeah nostalgia..
I played the shit out of BC2 on PC years back. I can't believe how long it's been. I still remember feeling it was a 'cutting edge and modern' game at the time. I think I was about 20 years old at that time and still in college. I'm nearly 33 now. Holy shit I feel so old.
Considering the weapons you're using in most first-person shooters these days, it's a shame destruction like this hasn't become a standard in FPS's.
"middle eastern villages"
*shows footage from Chile*
The saddest part is, I always wanted a Bad Company 3 after all these years. But now, after seeing what EA did to DICE, I don't any more. There is no way they could ever make anything as magical as Bad Company every again the way they are now. I don't want them to ruin the fantasy.
Thank you for this very objective review of a game that I look back fondly on. I didn't know the video would be this funny. Cheers.
_Spec Ops: The Line_ pls
They used to make em like this. Now it's all strang wahmen and weak guys.
Yes. YESSS!
Unironically loved Bad Company 1 and spent days on its completely average online and hope we get a full remaster with new servers one day
The sound off the grenade launchers alone is amazing. They sound so raw and powerful.
replaying this for the 3rd or 4th time now. Love it so much!
Bad Company One and Two are absolutely fantastic.
The gold bars light up like pulp fiction with the surf guitar
These videos keep getting better and better. Amazing to see how much you improved quality of your content while remaining true to some dumb old jokes and other stuff typical for you. Keep up the good work Gman!.
Man playing both of these after school was awesome. The multiplayer in 2 introduced DLC... THAT WAS FREE. Whole new maps and even weapons I believe, came out completely for free. The vietnam DLC was like 10 or 15 bucks but totally worth it. Amazing shooting down a Huey with a freakin AK-47.
BC2 was by FAR my favorite game growing up, especially Vietnam. I can remember role playing as a VC soldier with a PPSh on Hamburger Hill, everything around me being burnt from napalm. Over ten years later and I still haven’t found anything that captured the magic from this game. I still have a photo from when I finally hit the esteemed level 50 with an uncle and cousin there to witness it. It really was one of a kind
9:48 I still remember that video of the mortal kombat sound guys just throwing slime in buckets and sloshing it around, laughing the whole time. Looks like a fun job to have
And bad company 2 was the last time it was when you could level almost EVERY building.
It's crazy to think how bad dice went down hill after BC2 and B3
These campaigns are still soooo good! Especially the first game!
This game always reminded me of offline multiplayer in Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 1 & 2. The big maps, the graphics, the bots, the respawning when you die instead of mission over, the old school modern-warfare military theme, and most importantly the ability to tackle mission in the way you see most fit. The multiplayer mode even had its own campaign. I also really miss bots and the rag doll effects that were in many 2000's games. Those were the days!
Ive been replaying this over the past week and just ran across this
The chopper mission in BF1 made me wonder what a Desert Strike reboot would be like. Really great part of the game.
Holy snap. Gman doing some Battlefield retrospectives?? Please keep this up 😢
I will say this about the smoke effects and the blizzard/sandstorm blocking your view; it's a Fog of War moment. Blizzards obscure your vision to an insane amount along with sandstorms. Dust and smoke from blowing something up or from a grenade detonating will obscure your sight and make you unsure of where you need to go if you are not paying attention. It forces you to change your tactics if you are not careful. It's an amazing feature that gets you more in tune with how you play instead of the run-and-gun style.
The Modern Combat hot swap system had so much momentum with that combo system. Didn’t do too well in the Helo levels but I recall at the time it being super fun
i remember playing it at GameStop for a whole day LOL
Sooooooooooooo many memories from BFBC2. I loved it from the beta till BF3. The voice lines from the multi-player and the campaign was fun af. I've played the mission Heavy Metal so much and have quoted the radio traffic so much. Best battlefield ever next to BF3, BF4 and BF1