You don't really need to know the story to play the game. Wiki it or assume there were nuclear explosions and only the main characters survived
True, that's how I did it. Then again, the first one could give you a great feel.
Battlefield2 is an earlier Battlefield game. Bad Company is the newest in the series. A DUR. What you meant to say is you're familiar with the new ones
When we were clearly talking about the new ones.