Reviews - Friday, July 11, 2008 10:37 - 0 Comments

Battlefield: Bad Company

Man, the FPS arena is a crowded place these days. The market for these games is always growing, but the arena itself is packed full, that’s a fact. However, an unending lineup of perfectly average and uninspiring games made the beautiful shining pillar that is Battlefield: Bad Company be seen all the clearer. Learning that the premise was a rag-tag army team made up of “colourful” individuals single-handedly winning a war almost made me lose hope, but I was pulled back from the brink by something as simple as the game’s box art: a dirty little grenade with a shining yellow smiley-face attached to the pin. The potential for irony, sarcasm, and perhaps even some real insight in this game let me release my inhibitions and take a chance on this puppy really being something, and man oh man did it pay off. Continue…