BC was the best BF game for me, good music, good gameplay, and somewhat decent, if campy, humor.
BC, its sequel, and BF3 are the only ones I've played (except for BF2, which my dad rented once or something, and I played it a little then, but only a couple of times)
so I don't really have anything to compare it to
the characters were really cheesy. but imo, the campaign still beat BF3's
edit: changed "lame" to "cheesy" because I didn't want people to think I meant "boring" or something