Battlefield: Bad Company 1 & 2

Over the last two weeks, I have been playing (and completed) the titles stated in the title of this post. While I've known of their existence for a while, I've always overlooked picking them up. But that changed after seeing them featured in an outsidexbox (or was it Outside Xtra?!) YouTube video. I always thought they were standard run of the mill FPS.

While that is true for 90% of time for both titles, I was more interested in the humour side as stated in the OX video. For me, this was a refreshing take on military FPS titles which are all "HOOAH!" While the humour involved wasn't side-splitting, it was sarcastic in nature - something that I love.

Unfortunately, both titles do have several downfalls for which I cannot fault them for too much. Especially seeing as many titles of that generation have also been subjected to the same. They include, but not limited to: glitches, delayed input response, shallow storyline and poor graphics in places.

Despite this I found myself wanting to consume the titles as quickly as possible. There was just something that kept making me want to play them in as few plays as possible. I believe it was the sarcastic nature of the titles as a whole, but also the four main characters. I would try to pick my favourite out of the four, but that would feel as if I was betraying the other three who didn't get top picking. All four had quickly felt similar and I was a fifth member of the group.

That being said, I'm going to miss Marlowe, Sweetwater, Haggard and Redford. But I really hope we get a third and final title to the series.