It’s insane that DICE made two of the best fps campaigns of all time, and then decided “welp, never gonna do that again”.

There isn't a more fitting logo to have next to the words *"BAD COMPANY"* than EA.

The Bad Company 1 story is also basically Three Kings. In BC1 you can reload cancel by pressing the left then right bumper as well, which helps.

Bad Company 2’s destruction still remains unchallenged even by its own sequels.

I think what blew me away most was the destructible maps. When you could literally point a rocket and take out the wall was groundbreaking for any game back then

Both these games had the best campaigns ever. Loved the banter and semi open worldness of the levels.

If I remember correctly: Each member of Bad Company done something to get them into the squad. Preston Marloe: Joyriden and crashed a multimillion dollar helicopter at the Pentagon (Damaged/destroyed an Unnamed US Military General's limo in the process) Terrence Sweetwater: Accidentally uploaded a virus to a government server George Haggard: Blew up a large ammo dump in Eastern Paris Sergeant Redford: Just joined so he can retire early.

The destruction in Bad Company games were the reason I got into Battlefield ...I was so sad to find that there was barely any destruction in 2042

Literally, just finished bfbc2 yesterday and have been thinking “this is so underrated it’s like red faction in a modern military setting how does nobody see it!” And here you are you beautiful angel boy to sing for us

I remember how amazing the Vietnam DLC was, HOURS and HOURS sunk into that with the guys!! It was honestly insane how the game would be mildly slow, then all out chaos in an instant!

The multiplayer for Bad Company 2 is still my all time favorite in the battlefield franchise. Beautiful maps that were balanced great for rush mode, excellent destruction that still hasn’t been topped in my opinion, and to top it all off some of the best sound design in any game I’ve ever played still to this day. Servers are still alive and well on all platforms & I revisit it often. I encourage others to as well.

Graphics still incredible and don't forget, the best weapon sound effects to this day.

Ill always remember the first game for the gears of war parody trailer with the overhead camera shots and the character mumbling mad world, the first game honestly always felt like a kelly heroes kinda game as an fps, the closest contender prior being "The outfit" (does anyone remember that game lol), which was closer to dirty dozen more than anything, The second game was just an amazing multiplayer game, and really divided console players at the time between that or Modern Warfare 2, you really only ever fit those two moulds.....before Reach came out....

I always hoped that the first Bad Company would get a PC release and its still upsetting that it hasnt, the characters were great.

The Vietnam dlc was super goated

The most glorious era of military shooters. All hail Bad Company 2

The cursed smiling on the cover never fails to make me laugh

They were really fun campaigns and the characters were funny.

Oh man the Vietnam DLC for Bad Company 2 was amazing. I played that even more than the standard game.

God I loved these games. Played an unreasonable amount of both games' multiplayer.

2010 we had Bad Company 2. 2022 we have Battlefield 2042 Proof that we live in the worst timeline.

Still play it on PC from time to time. Holds up so damn well

Back during the glory days of Battlefield and some of the best in the franchise.

They don’t make first person shooters like this anymore, it’s sad

Bad Company was the first game that I saw let you actually man the anti-air / anti-tank guns that are on the map. Everyother game just used a solid model so it was awesome to see that you were able to get into pretty much anything you found on the map. Also, destructible buildings was an amazing feature at the time.

I am actually pretty happy that you talked about my two favorite childhood games and yes I'm willing to admit they're not the best but screw it I don't care I just love the fact that you talked about them thank you.

Does anyone remember BFBC1 multiplayer demo that EA had to take off the PS store because nobody bought the game, and only played the Demo, as it had the one map Oasis 24/7... People got close to actually levelling up when you needed 99mil XP. I remember buying it after, and really missing the 24/7 Oasis map. It was so damn perfect. Loved the campaign. God those were the days!

That damn piano menu theme is still my ring tone to this day

Man, i remember when my younger brother came home with a copy of bad company. I watched him play it on our PS3 and fell in love immediately with the story. Kelly's heroes like from the TNT/TCM glory days. I'm going to get it again.

Fans - We love the destruction DICE! give us more DICE - Okay we will tone down the destruction with each iteration :)

MW2 and MW3 with their russia invading eastern us and europe in just two days: man, no one will ever represent russia exaggeratedly competent such as we did BC2 with their russia invading east asia, europe, alaska and south america for some damn reason:

I started watching your videos about a year ago and you have recently covered all of my all time favorite single players games. And now this!!! This is my childhood man. Thanks for covering it. Have a great day

The squad you run with in the campaign reminded me of how good SW Republic Commando was. Really wish we had gotten a sequel, because it left us on a damn cliffhanger.

Something I'm looking 4ward to: the former DICE devs that founded Embark Studios are working on a game called The Finals. It's this PvP FPS where u blow each other up trying to catch boxes of money, and the destruction system is looking very advanced, which is something these devs have plenty of veterancy with by now.

The thing that has always stuck with me about BFBC2 was the eardum-popping explosion SFX. One of the most iconic sounds of the franchise.

Still remember playing through these with my dad watching being blown the fuck away by the destruction. Good damn times

Man you mentioning Battlefield Modern Combat just brought back some amazing memories I had of that game. Probably still have it and a ps2 console, might go and play it again. Also imo the BF BC2 multiplayer was the best out of them all.

For Bad Company 2: The driving sections where you can drive yourself i used the third person camera all the way and for the mortar section you just have to listen to Sarge and only move when he says you should, then it's not problem at all. the vehicle section where you have to shoot behind you, it's a matter of aiming right. you kill everything with one or two hits and they are spawning the same way everytime. believe me i've played this campain way more then i should have probably, just for the charme of it over the years.

BC2 multiplayer still holds up today. Awesome maps and gameplay.

Among other things, BC2 had absolutely amazing audio. Firing the m95 and the m60 in the atacama desert level and hearing the echo is so good.

The best thing coming home to after a long nights of work. Is one of your videos mate. Cheers!

Man i missed Sarge and the boys, the banter the squad had in BF:BC2 was priceless. I used to slow play the hell out of missions just to see what they would talk about if you didnt rush through the missions. When Flynn was killed and went to the great bong in the sky i had to take a moment of silence and rip a fat bong rip for him. That game was the highest point in the Battlefield series in my opinion, it all started going down hill after that...

I think Battlefield 2: Modern Combat's campaign is incredibly underrated. It's exactly what someone (like me) who played the series up to that point would expect a story-focused BF game to look like, with more emphasis on the factions and the war than on individual characters, and taking part in large-scale battles where you fight alongside dozens of friendly soldiers rather than just a couple of squad-mates.

OMG that's so cool you brought up a reference to Kelly's Heroes, that makes me so happy. I kinda always thought the gold sub plot was a reference to Kelly's heroes.

Ah the nostalgia. Thanks for covering these two rough gems :). Good times were had.

Some of my favourite games ever. Cool to see you mention Modern Combat as well, it was awesome. It actually did have a story though, I played it again not too long ago.

Modern Combat was one of my most favorite games; a bit arcadey, but once you get the momentum going, you become an actual Super Soldier! I need to note that for my Awards List.

Fuck yeah, man. Battlefields just special. What a great video idea

Man i really should replay these campaigns...

Duuuuuuuude! So fucking happy you decided to do a video for these. My favorite military shooter campaigns for sure.

I just started re-playing both of these on Series X and they’re better than I remember. Great timing Gman!On a 16 channel Atmos setup using the DSU or Auro3D upmixer, it sounds exponentially better than the last time I played this during my 2nd year in the Army using a simple 2.1 setup. Your quote about sound design is spot on, I currently work with quite a few developers using the Dolby Atmos renderer to mix and properly place objects in the immersive sound field as opposed to legacy codecs which use channel based sound. It does require the user to have a minimum of 2 (in all reality 4 for the proper imaging of front to back and side to side overhead audio) but the difference when properly placed and calibrated is night and day compared to a conventional 5 or 7 channel bed layer setup or Soundbar. Atmos for headphones relies on HTRF (head tracking related function) which is far from being perfected and the results vary greatly in a similar way that there’s excellent examples of native Dolby Atmos and DTS:X soundtracks as well as sub par ones.

I remember getting Bad Company 1 for Easter in 2010. It's funny that you mention that you liked the mission when you were separated from your squad, because 13 year old me found that frustratingly hard and I never finished the game because of it.

Bc1 was great, one of my favorites

I'm glad you're doing a review this I remember this game fondly

I love seeing reviews of this game. Back when proper demos were still a thing and oh boy, still listening to Milt Buckner - The Beast til this very day! I still look back at it with fond memories. Replayed the games last year, still loving it! I still remember completing the single player of BF:BC2 at the time. ''The war isn't over, they're coming through Alaska.'' and then I started the multiplayer and went directly into a match, I got parachuted into Nelson Bay. Felt like a direct continuation of the single player into multiplayer. Could have been just luck that I got Nelson Bay d: Still a great memory and experience!

Bad Company is one of my favorite "T rated" shooters I grabbed when I was a kid and couldn't get my parents to buy me M games. Good times:).

I have a fond memory of these games. BF:BB2 multiplayer is unchallenged to this day of how concise, well-designed, and how much variety it had. Yeah had so much fun back in the day with it. I might be seeing it through rose colored glasses, but when BF3 came out that was the end of great BF games

Bad Company 2 is still my fav BF entry. Even platin'd it. I think lvl 21 was the last lvl to unlock a weapon and still kept playing for months because the gameplay itself was so much fun. Well balanced, awesome map design, rush mode was so good. Even the single player campaign was fun. Ah yeah nostalgia..

The saddest part is, I always wanted a Bad Company 3 after all these years. But now, after seeing what EA did to DICE, I don't any more. There is no way they could ever make anything as magical as Bad Company every again the way they are now. I don't want them to ruin the fantasy.

The bad company games were both just masterpieces i have SO MANY memories playing BC2 with a buddy late at night playing for hours i got so excited when they announced portals in 2042 (obviously it turned out to be a disappointment) but the XM8 prototype is still i think my favorite video game weapon EVER it was SO good and sounded so NASTY i would also like to say thanks for posting this I've been very sick and watching you're content makes me happy hoping my kids and wife don't catch whatever the fuck i have

Remember when Battlefield had a theme song?

War tapes in Bad Company 2 is insane with a good headset

i remember thinming Modern Combat was soooo cool. the way you could hotswitch to and from any soldier on the field was awesome - i wish we had a modern game with that system.

The online play in Battlefield Bad Company was super underrated for the time. Bad company was such a great game. I wish I could go back and play a game of gold rush.

Bad Company were the best characters in the entire series. And they never revisit them for some reason....

And bad company 2 was the last time it was when you could level almost EVERY building. It's crazy to think how bad dice went down hill after BC2 and B3

never caught one of your vids this early. keep up the good work man!

Shame bfbc2 on pc is dead but there is some hope with bots being finally made and more or less working to keep the game alive. It's on a server called f&f.

Oh man, back when games were just *fun*

Man, you reviewed so many games I used to not be allowed to play but would always play with my friend whenever I was over at his house. Gonna binge watch these!

Thank you so much for reviewing these

Glad i finally platinum this game.

“Oh look new guys dead “

Bad Company 2 was my first battlefield game. Made me fall in love with the series.

i still loved the chaos brotherhood and collecting those guns. i miss how games did this... like now games are just handing shit left and right. but this felt rewarding to finally find that last gun and it being a good one. kinda like zelda really. or metroid. rewarding you for exploring.

Considering the weapons you're using in most first-person shooters these days, it's a shame destruction like this hasn't become a standard in FPS's.

"middle eastern villages" *shows footage from Chile*

"The soldiers blend into the background" That's called Camouflage. Despite what popular media makes you think, soldiers don't typically wear the tactical equivalent of a high-vis vest to war.

I played the shit out of BC2 on PC years back. I can't believe how long it's been. I still remember feeling it was a 'cutting edge and modern' game at the time. I think I was about 20 years old at that time and still in college. I'm nearly 33 now. Holy shit I feel so old.

Will you ever review CoD World at War?

_Spec Ops: The Line_ pls

The sound off the grenade launchers alone is amazing. They sound so raw and powerful.

Thank you for this very objective review of a game that I look back fondly on. I didn't know the video would be this funny. Cheers.

They used to make em like this. Now it's all strang wahmen and weak guys.

Yes. YESSS! Unironically loved Bad Company 1 and spent days on its completely average online and hope we get a full remaster with new servers one day

9:48 I still remember that video of the mortal kombat sound guys just throwing slime in buckets and sloshing it around, laughing the whole time. Looks like a fun job to have

"You can't really tell enemies frombthe frees or the bush" yeah that's kind of how camouflage works. Yeah in arcade style shooters having having enemies in bright red jump suits might work but in a military shooter that really is how it should be.

Sooooooooooooo many memories from BFBC2. I loved it from the beta till BF3. The voice lines from the multi-player and the campaign was fun af. I've played the mission Heavy Metal so much and have quoted the radio traffic so much. Best battlefield ever next to BF3, BF4 and BF1

This game always reminded me of offline multiplayer in Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 1 & 2. The big maps, the graphics, the bots, the respawning when you die instead of mission over, the old school modern-warfare military theme, and most importantly the ability to tackle mission in the way you see most fit. The multiplayer mode even had its own campaign. I also really miss bots and the rag doll effects that were in many 2000's games. Those were the days!

"Hmmm, either you do as I say or I'm going to beat your ass to submission." Best threat Sergeant made. Ever.

replaying this for the 3rd or 4th time now. Love it so much!

These videos keep getting better and better. Amazing to see how much you improved quality of your content while remaining true to some dumb old jokes and other stuff typical for you. Keep up the good work Gman!.

BFBC 1 is my #1 favorite shooter game. It was my first. I remember the first mission, I did not know the controller sticks clicked in to crouch so I was stuck in the very beginning for a long time. I felt stupid when I figured out.

Man playing both of these after school was awesome. The multiplayer in 2 introduced DLC... THAT WAS FREE. Whole new maps and even weapons I believe, came out completely for free. The vietnam DLC was like 10 or 15 bucks but totally worth it. Amazing shooting down a Huey with a freakin AK-47.

Ive been replaying this over the past week and just ran across this

I will say this about the smoke effects and the blizzard/sandstorm blocking your view; it's a Fog of War moment. Blizzards obscure your vision to an insane amount along with sandstorms. Dust and smoke from blowing something up or from a grenade detonating will obscure your sight and make you unsure of where you need to go if you are not paying attention. It forces you to change your tactics if you are not careful. It's an amazing feature that gets you more in tune with how you play instead of the run-and-gun style.

The gold bars light up like pulp fiction with the surf guitar

Even after a decade of playing this game, i still have amazing memories of it. The chaos, characters and destruction all made a diamond of a campaign. I still even remember some lines, 11 years later :') Not to mention the BC2 multi-player, which was PHENOMENAL for it's time. Broken in some aspects (like free base camping lmao) but the fun was definitely there. Also the maps were amazing, especially in Rush Man nostalgia really hit me now

Having met some of the developers of the first game when I was doing a tour of EA made me realize how restrictive EA really is with DICE. DICE had way more vehicles and destruction planned for Bad Company but were forced to cut out large pieces and cut corners.

Holy snap. Gman doing some Battlefield retrospectives?? Please keep this up 😢