Causing chaotic explosions has never been this fun; Bad Company is easily a worthy entry in Battlefield's universe.
Dice has created an amazing new engine, something that allows the environment to be torn to pieces. Places you believe are safe havens are can be leveled with a well placed grenade or a tank shell. If there's a home in your way, and you don't fancy the use of doors, blow a gaping hole in it and climb inside. The system is flawed however, as not all buildings can be destroyed. Wooden structures will often withstand a mortar strike, but bricks will fade to dust. Small technicalities aside, Bad Company is all about breaking and entering.
One of the great features of Bad Company is the single-player campaign. A real campaign with a fleshed out story, not just a collection of maps and bots. You play as the protagonist Preston Marlowe, a man who has been assigned to 222nd battalion, also named B Company. This platoon is essentially compromised of misfits and cast-offs that are deemed expendable by the U.S. army. In short, this battalion is sent into the front lines. B Company consists of grizzled veteran Sergeant Redford, techno nerd **** and Haggard; a man with a fetish for blowing stuff up. Together, you fight in a Russian territory to take control of certain installations. When the army leaves B Company hanging, the squad goes AWOL in pursuit of mercenary gold. The story isn't exactly Bioshock, God of War, Mass Effect type quality, but the great characters as well as the unlockables, the campaign is easily worth the effort. The greatest appeal to a Battlefield game in the end is its multiplayer however. There is a great leveling system, as well as a ton of usable weaponry. They range from laser designators and C4 to G36 American copies called X8M and Austrian AUG's. The vehicles also provide loads of entertainment is pursuit of blowing stuff up.
In the end, there is little to flaw Bad Company. The campaign is good, but your friendly A.I.'s make you feel like you're tackling the war alone. Also, many of the weapons don't have the real-life statistics they truly should. But with the quality of the multiplayer as well as the insurmountable number of weapons, these blemishes to do affect the game overall quality. To conclude, fans of the Battlefield franchise finally have a console version to enjoy, but Battlefield: Bad Company is good enough to appeal to those that love the First-person-shooter genre in general.