yeah no kidding, the bad company games were like the handicap moments of battlefield. they were awful spinoffs lol
1942 was the best. You had maps based on the real battles like Omaha, Battle of the Buldge, Tabruk, Guadalcbrown town, El Alamein, Iwo Jima. You had a variety of nations such as the United States, the British, the Canadians, the Free French, the Germans, the Italians, and the Japanese. Each had their own unique weapon set and pair of vehicles. You had one set of weapons, not unlocks for anything, so basically it came done to skill and team work instead of wealth and unlocks. It also had the right balance of realism and silliness. For example you could load up a jeep with dynamite and blow up a tank, there was no bullet drop, motion blur. You also had 5 well defined classes such as the sniper who was useless, the Assault, the Anti-Tank, the Medic, and the Engineer.
Battlefield 2 and Battlefield Vietnam were also really good. Battlefield Vietnam let you customize your classes a little bit, added stuff like napalm, and helicopters. Battlefield 2 was a real mile stone though because at the time shooters were usually caped at 32 players, you had all these 16 vs 16 player battles. So to take I to next level, they increased the player cap to 64 players. You also had unlocks, but you had to play and kill stuff to get them, you couldn't just randomly run around, cash in a few bucks to unlock everyone, no you actually had to work for that stuff. Then Bad company rolls around, tries to mimick cod by reducing the player count and ditching previous innovations.
You had had CO-OP were you could play against the AI. You had mod tools and cool mods such as Transformers,
Desert Combat, and
Project Reality.
No more co-op, no more mods, everything that made battlefield what it was, gone. It's just another franchise competing against the Call of Duty cash cow. DLC'd to death with unlocks that you can buy.
