The Best Battlefield Game? - Bad Company 2 (2010) Retrospective 

Bad Company 2 had an amazing campaign, great squad mechanics, weapons that were exotic and unique to the time it was released, an atmosphere that stayed consistent throughout all aspects of the game (“GET THAT MUTHERFUCKER!”), and introduced that amazing destruction mechanic everyone knows and loves today. Bad Company 2 walked so BF as a series could run. Sad to hear it died, but at least we have the memories.

Bad Company 2 was my first entry into the franchise as well when I borrowed it from a friend after I got my first console, the PS3, with my own money in high school. I ended up borrowing it for like a month until he asked for it back. Got my own copy afterwards and played hundreds if not thousands of hours into the game. It was the first game I ever voice chatted in and I still remember the first time I ever experienced vc. It was also one of the first games I got when I finally built my own pc. I have a lot of friends who haven't logged on in over a decade still on my friends list who I met playing BF:BC2. It's sad to see it go, but hopefully players will revive the servers like they did with the older titles in the series.

My favourite was 2042, I think having a seizure while playing the game adds another layer of skill

The building destruction was on a a entire different level.

We used to call recons Wookiees. The ghillies looked like Wookiees from a distance. Man that was like….13 years ago. I just graduated high school the year prior. Used to get up before work at like 6 am to crack a couple games off on the 360 with my buddies. Good times. Got real good with the Apache too. Could dodge almost everything.

As a dedicated medic, I was pissed when they took my LMGS away from me in bf3.

Bad Company 1 and 2 are literally the only military FPS campaigns I've ever finished. Every other game it was right into multiplayer.

Bc2 was the best. Miss it so much. Maps, guns, destruction. So awesome

I was never a skilled player, but one of my fondest memories is getting repeatedly domed by a sniper, figuring out their nest was in an attic window, and assuming that the dirty campers were in a group I slowly walked around the perimeter of the house laying C4 charges. Collapsed the whole structure and got a triple kill. Instant core memory acquired for my goblinoid skill-issue-riddled soul.

Sniping for me has never felt as good as it did in Bad Company 2 imo. The M95 was my main squeeeeeeeze, so so so satisfying to get the headshot at range with. JEEEEEEEZ.

The statement at 2:20 resonated with me on a new level. I can't believe that EA is wiping this game off the store completely.

I was probably only 9 when i played bad company 2 but god damn the hippie pilot getting rocket launchered still makes me wanna cry to this day 😢

Bad company's best feature was no prone

My very first online match in BC2 (my first online Battlefield game) was on Arica Harbor were i got a kill with the M24 that gave me over 700 points. I also loved that every team action got properly rewarded. It was never 'you HAVE to revive or heal your team mates', it was always 'you WANT to heal or revive your team mates'.

Wish they made bad company 3. sad we never got a follow up to what happened in the story.

Man that was a trip down memory lane. I literally would spend hours and not even realize the time passing by until I eventually put the controller down. Before this, I was a normie playing COD and shit until a 360 buddy told me to try this game out. And I'm glad I did. I was never able to go back to COD after this game and the sheer amount of fun even when you were losing was awesome. Pains me to see that EA is shutting it down, so I'm glad I was able to pick up the Steam version before they delisted it. I'm definitely willing to switch to a 3rd party client just to relive some of those memories again. Also, this was the only Battlefield I was able to pilot the helicopters in at least decently well. I couldn't fly for shit in the later titles.

Amazing video, a perfect love letter to BC2. My favorite part of this game is the sniping. Just in this game I can't quite explain, and none of the battlefields after managed to top it. The sound and the feel of the M95 sniper is unmatched. The only game where it genuinely felt like I was carrying a .50.

Such a shame EA is trying to kill this gem. Bad Company 2, along with Halo 3 and Left 4 Dead 2 were my go-to multiplayer games back when I still played on 360. I already have a third party client installed to keep playing(couldn't even play the damn thing out of the box because of the login issue), but it just depressing knowing that people who aren't already in the know about this game won't even have the chance to experience the best Battlefield game.

Bad Company 2: Vietnam was my personal favorite. Rocking flame tuktuks with the bois.

man you are so correct on every point. i miss the xm8 being in games!

Battlefield 2 was the peak for me. I feel like it did combined arms warfare the best with jets, choppers, cars, tanks, boats etc all being used effectively.

This was my first battlefield game, and it will always hold a place in my heart as one of the best FPS games. The combat, the environment destruction, ambiance, and the BALANCING! Just... *Chef's kiss* ... Perfection!

Bad Company 2 is one of my all time favorite multiplayer games and no game in the series, not even 3, had me hooked to that extent. For a long time I wished for Dice to tackle a third entry but after so many failures its just impossible for there to be a new good Battlefield anymore, let alone a good Bad Company.

My favourite battlefield was 2142 I feel like it gets forgotten about as well.

You aren't kidding with the sound. Man i miss this

Such a great video. Very bittersweet too. BC2 is my second favorite game of all time only behind Halo 3. The imminent closure of the legacy servers has me absolutely devastated. I’ve been playing since the beta & have been playing so much these last few weeks. This game is in a league of its own. You nailed it when you mentioned the smaller, but balanced arsenal of weapons, and the class system with EASILY recognizable character models. Not to mention the best sound design I’ve ever heard in my 28 years of gaming. Very sad times. I only wish the outcry of people who loved these games would’ve made EA reconsider. I’ll keep playing while I can.

Bad Company 2 has the best destruction of environment and buildings ever made in a Video game, and one lf the best gun sounds in a fps game ever

This game was the best because it was simple and fun! The amount of hours I spent with my best friend playing this game. Great great memories and laughter that I'll never forget but won't get back.

Best game. BC2 Just did everything right. If they just remastered the thing- keep all its flaws and just upgrade the graphics- it would be a huge success

A core memory for me was as attacking Isla Inocentes and, in a desperate push with only a few tickets left, dumping all of my AT mines on the point and setting them off with a grenade, destroying the point and pushing us to the much easier final phase line. Another was crossing the river on Oasis in Rush with two other tanks and just shelling the objectives as the team advanced. They whittled us down until I was the only tank left, but we kept pushing and finally met our end two objective areas in. Nothing will top BC2 because it emphasized quality and polished mechanics over quantity and a grind. Port Valdez and Arica Harbor, with returning champions from BC1 Harvest Day and Oasis, are probably the best maps ever made for the franchise. Rush mode was always fun, especially with Destruction 2.0 making some targets killable through multiple ways. I think the other thing not talked about enough is how much of glass cannons vehicles were. You could chew up infantry with the autocannon on an APC or the main gun of a tank, but one rocket up the tailpipe and you were toast. It didn't take six or more rockets to kill a vehicle, which also allowed for multiple vehicles to be spawned without balancing worries. Helis were fairly easy to tag with the tracker dart if they got too low, but that's where their rockets and chain gun were most effective. It remembered the game is all about the infantry. The class balance was perfectly fine because everything had its purpose and had easy places to excel. Less vehicle emphasis also means you don't need three engineers in a squad to kill a tank in a timely manner, which means I routinely had every class in my squads. You were never out of your element. Over-innovation has always been the downfall of games. BF3's and especially BF4's weapon roster is too deep, with 4 also having an inane number of attachments. Fixed wing aircraft have never been a net positive to the Battlefield formula because they're hard to kill and reward mastery from scrubs who sit in the deployment screen with their finger on the button rather than playing the game. I deeply miss 2142 though, it had much of the same formula as the Bad Companies in terms of balance and simplicity and the Titan mode was the perfect mix of open objectives and the final, concentrated push to the finish

Circumstances outside of the game made BFBC2 the best BF. Dont get me wrong it was a really really good game but what made it the best of all BFs is that so many things came together there. The timing was perfect. Ppl came from all around, wow, strategygames, fps etc and together formed the first BFcommunity. There was no competition. Everybody joined. And since there was so many experienced gamers yet new to the concept this bond shaped between us. Everybody was so helpful and nice. Hardly any toxidity at all For me it changed my attitude to gaming forever.

For me it was the physics, both bullet arch and flying driving. The game felt the most realistic in scale The size of trees builds dust clouds and explosions. The perks were great, the camouflage on snipers worked like real life. It was just a masterpiece❤

I loved and used the drone so much. Having a pred missile on demand was great

My favourite BF memory comes from a match on Arica Harbor when I was attacking the objective with the UAV terminal on the top floor. I ran out of ammo and switched to my repair tool. Killed 3 or 4 people camping the roof before I finally went down

I really wish this would get more views, it's a really good address of the best Battlefield game ever made.

Other than my general love for Halo growing up, BC2 was by far my favorite when it came to multiplayer, the campaign was great too. I tried a couple BF games since, but it never felt right, so it's really sad to see it's going away; we never even got a BC3. :/

What a game. I've probably spent more time on Atacama Desert alone than I have in all the other battlefield titles put together.

This just came to mind, I don't think the class setup was broken at all. Having assault have ammo meant that as none of the classes with powerful mains or gadgets can self-sustain. It forces you to have a MG or rocket team with an assault providing security and extra ammo--it both balances gameplay while also actually having a realistic dynamic. Having medics be your gunners means then it's a balancing act of having a base of fire and having someone keep the attack or defense literally and figuratively alive, or having two in a squad to leap frog at the cost of one less of another class. Assault with ammo means they're not afraid to lay down fire and, for players who are good enough to stay alive for long periods, they're actually incentivized to play as just an average rifleman rather than more specialized roles

Great video! Bad Company 2 was such an absolute gem

For what ever reason BC2's guns simply work and feel better. In any modern shooter I play the guns feel like they are airsoft when you fire.

Brings a tear to my eye. One of my favorite shooters of all time. Countless hours spent in multiplayer and i regret none of it.

Man, I remember playing this game when I was but a wee lad who was very bad at video games. Hell, when I ported my 360 stats to Project Rome, I was shocked to see my K/D sitting at a solid 0.49. Yet, despite that, I have nothing but the fondest memories of the game. As much as I enjoyed 3 and 4, neither of them felt quite right. Thanks to you, I can finally put that feeling into words.

I played countless hours of Bad Company 2 on the PS3 with my buddies. We were all new dads at the time. When the wives and kids went down, we logged on and played a solid four hours a night for years.

BC2 was my first multiplayer experience that I really enjoyed. My first kill was on a snow map conquest. I just spawned in, saw a tank pinning teammates in a house. I used a grenade launcher to damage it then used a TOW missile to destroy it.

It says a lot the the current "dice", whatever this studio is nowadays, don't even know how Bad company 2 works. They openly admitted they have no idea what makes this game work. That says a lot about this studio and their current state.

The echo from the gun shots... Damn just unlocked memories

You really nailed the analysis, esp classes, balance and colour. I’d also add movement speed being slower is also a huge factor in making the game more fun.

I love your message at the end about older games, trying old games I missed out on is all Ive been playing for a few months and it's been pure bliss

Honestly, amazing video! A real blast from the past - great points and made me feel the love for this game once again - thanks man!

Modern combat was my first introduction to a battlefield game and I loved it. The hot swapping was really fun and there’s never been a game like it since, that I know of. Then it was bad company, bad company 2, and 1943 that I got into.

I started Battlefield on 2, but never quite got into it. Then comes in Bad Company, I played it for MONTHS, everyday. Then when Bad Company 2, I think to date it's still the most time in any game ever. On PS3 and 360. It will always be my favorite game forever. I'm glad 2042 brought back Bad Company 2 maps, guns, and game modes. And I'm STILL WAITING FOR THE CLIFFHANGER OF BAD COMPANY 2.

BC2 was certainly the peak and you nailed many of the reasons why. You didn't mention how great the vehicle warfare was though. Simple yet well balanced and so satisfying. A good engi could ruin your day no matter how great of a heli pilot you are. Kinda sucked when they brought stingers into the future games.

Ill be honest, i personally loved the campaign, bad company 2 was the first fps i ever remeber playing, and im only 14, i must say though, the characters and cutseens did carry a little bit, but damn ima never forget driving along the snowy cliff road and blasting enemy vehicles behind me, one of the really memorable parts for me 😂

This was my favorite FPS of all time. Such a fantastic game. Campaign wasn't as great as the first one, but the multi-player was soooooo fantastic

The dialogue lines in this game was amazing!!!! The best of all time came from friendly fire. "You're shooting me you stupid fuck!!!"

FUCK YES BAD COMPANY 2! Bad Company 1 and 2 had a unique quality that I can only describe as "flavor". Outside of time/setting (BF1 and BF5) and without trying to be gimmicky to the point of being a different game (Hardline), Bad Company stood out for its humor and groundbreaking destruction. BF3 was technically competent and BF4 is a favorite for many people, but they felt uninspired and generic to me, compared to their immediate predecessors.

I used to spend so much time in the campaign just destroying every house i could 😂

I still love Bad Company 2. Though I got into the series with 2142, which was also great. BC2 though was the entire reason I fell in love with the M1 Garand, and why I bought a 1911.

Bad Company 2 was the reason why I got into guns. Fun fact: I got this game gifted from my ex best friend back in the day. He's a good lad.

The blue color filter actually started with Medal of honor 2010.

Grew up with 1942, Vietnam, played a little bit of 2 but a lot more of 2 MC, which now got revived on PS2 through community, but I mostly enjoyed Bad Company 2, thankfully that also is still alive thanks to community despite it's shutdown.

Every aspect of BF5 is the best in the franchise... best gunplay and weapons, best era, best squad cooperation/incentive, best movement, best sound, best vehicles, best graphics/animations, best maps overall, best destruction/rebuilding, most QoL... if anything I wish it had less customization. I've never liked that the Battlefield games (Most Shooters) just have blanket-customization, every scope and attachment on every weapon. Every perk on every vehicle, it's redundant and robs amazing vehicles and firearms of their uniqueness... I think that's why BC2 is my second favorite, basically tied with BF5, because it has the minimalism I wanted in BF5. Realistic attachments (fuck Nydar scopes), the tighter weapon roster, fun perks that you could see making a difference. Almost no vehicle unlocks letting each vehicle shine with a unique default loadout. Minimal and realistic soldier/weapon skins. (Though I miss my BC2 Dr Pepper skins) xD However, I also prefer faction restrictions on weapons/vehicles etc... BF1943 did this pretty well. That's what I want, BF5 quality in BC2 Vietnam quantity. Cut the fat.

All server are up and running, BC2 will live FOREVERRRR , one of the thing that gets you hooked on this game is the sound ooooohhhhh the sound is sssooooo gooood

On the Xbox 360 this game is was so much fun being able to blow up buildings with cool graphics for its time I do miss it. Bad company 1-2 but my favorite is battlefield 3,4 and yes I do like hardline 🤷🏻‍♂️

Desert Combat got me hooked. 2 was my youth. 4 took the most time out of me and 1 will always stay my favorite for being cineastic af. Sad they didn't make another BF after 5

Feels like 4-5 years ago, but my goodness I was 17. We're getting old guys, but sadly BC2 won't be getting any older. Servers Dec. 1-8 better be popping! 🎉

Loved the video man. My favorite is Battlefield 1 but you made really good points. I unfortunately never got the chance to play Bad Company 2.

Funnily enough, I played the Bad Company 2 beta a few months before the game came out. I HATED it. I didn't like the gun feel nor the visual aesthetics compared to BC1. However, when I got the game out of obligation of playing it with friends, suddenly everything clicked. Maps were fun, destructibility was awesome, gun play was weighty yet satisfying, classes were balanced, and the audio design was *chef's kiss. It's my favorite Battlefield game, and I'll never forget the wonderful memories it provided me.

Like you did, me, my brother and many friends I played with, from BC2 onwards, bought every BF, someone (including me) even bought 2042 (I played it very little). Personally I'm biased, BC2 is perfect and while I enjoyed Vietnam, I think the maps started to fall apart there. BC2 vanilla rush rotation is the only BF where there wasn't a map I wanted to skip. Each rush game was unique depending on the style of the players. Maps, destruction, sounds, music, graphics, 3D models, animations, even fonts and colors, it was perfect. It was very arcade, and remained the most fun. I bought every BF with the hope that they would produce something as good as BC2, in reality they have moved away from it with each release. I still had fun because I was playing with friends, if I had been alone I don't know if I would have played the new ones.

'... the one guy who really really loved being a team player'. That was me; you're welcome.

Take me back to glorious 360 days with BC2

bad company 2 multiplayer and story was so fun this game was my biggest multiplayer other than maybe mw2, and the soundscape was 100% the best iv experienced in any game i played like this

Genuinely gonna miss this game, it was so incredibly rare to find this kind of genuine war game on console, plus nowadays publishers are too wrapped up with profits to create anything like this for at least another decade, i dont have much hope with publishers now lol

The bad company 2 loading screen music is so fkn nostalgic, even just a couple violin notes will make me start crying from the memories 😢

Thanks for this vid. Been playing it on Steam the day before it dies and it's been a hell of a lot of fun. Makes me even more sad i didn't play more of it. Pre ordered it on the 360 in 7th grade. So many mems

I play BC2 multiplayer on War Tapes every night. Arica Harbor is the de_dust2 of BF.

My first bf was bf2 on ps2, i played the heck out of that game but never really realised Battlefield was a seperate game franchise. When the bf bad company (1) demo came to ps3 i remember playing it for days, the sound design, the destruction, the "realistic" gameplay felt so refreshing after cod4. But i didnt buy the bad company 1 back then, dont remember why. When bad company 2 came out i ended up buying it and fell in love. The gsme was so full of flavours, the weight and the vehicle combat was easily the best there was, and i knew that was going to be my favourite franchise. Bf3 was a no brainer, i got into bf3 demo just in time to experience the white medic and "worm glitches". I bought the game and still olay it every now and then. Bf4 wasnt to my liking, The weapon balance felt a bit off. Bf1 i played for a moment but the lack of bolt action rifles turned me away. Bf v looked horrible and i didnt touch it and i felt like the bf was doomed right then. I predicted bf2042 being as bad as it was in the reveal trailers comment section, it was clearly a soulless cash-in or fan service attempt. Regarding which one is my favourite, i have to say it would be bf3. I played the game with my friend so that may be partly the reason, but the atmosphere felt heavy and powerful. Also after my irl military experience i'd say bf3 combat feels and looks the most realistic and is, infact, to this day one of the only console games besides enlisted i'd say has the right speed of gameplay to use real life tactics and do well. The sound, the weapons, the voice lines are in the best balance. That being said there are so many things i love from the other games, like later on when i played bad company 1, after losimg a rush game the rogue US. army officer saying to his defeated men "i already had plans how to spend that gold, YOU, GUYS, SUCK." stuck to me. Such a good story telling ans character! Bad company 2 had that amazing atmosphere of serious bad assery, the combat sounded serious and yet good amount of humanity, i mesn the soldiers sounded like kids doing their best to fight a war, the announcer voice lines in that game were the closest to real thing, but also bf3 comes equally close to realism. All in all, bad company 2 and bf3 were the top of the top to me. The voices, the sound of combat, the atmosphere of war machine clashing against another was something i honestly havent experienced in other games. It was simply believable.

The only AAAA game I've ever payed full price for. They just don't make them like this anymore. A complete package, unbroken, and superb DLC.❤

Who here remembers playing Rush and loading C4 on a quad, jumping off ramming it into a point and detonating the C4 to blow the point up. Lol….so much fun doing that until they nerfed the C4.

I agree, Bad Company 2 definitely had the best campaign of the BF franchise. Dang shame the Vietnam War expansion for it didn't include a campaign. Wish we got a great Bad Company 3 instead of most of the later BF games.

Bad Company 2 wasn't my first but it is certainly the peak of Battlefield. 3 wasn't bad but it lost sooo much of the complete destruction. Even playing BC2 maps on 2042 you notice the destruction immediately. And it had the absolute best dlc that was like a whole new game... Vietnam. ❤

Ive been playing Battlefield since the first Bad Company and I seriously recommend trying to get back into 2042 if you have EA Play or Game Pass. It's great now.

In my eyes, BC2 has something that barely any FPS has these days and its hard to explain, the closest that i can convey what i think its, BC2 its a arcade Battlefield game with weird selection of arcade elements and realistic ones that almost create a new genre in my eyes, and i think its a consequence of designing a fps for consoles coming from a pseudo hardcore fps pc game. BC2 was made to be fun, and i miss those times were that was the standard

My fondest memory was taking VCS, putting all C4 on a buggy, drive to enemy positions through some weird route. Then exploding it killing one squad and running behind the frontline sniping other players at short range. Fucking blast, dunno if games just got less fun or I got too old. Thanks for memories!

bad company 2 it was my first game ever i played when i was 7 with my dad and always remained the favorite right now am 15

I remember back then the PC guys would laugh at the console players for playing this. And blame us for getting a held back version of battlefield cuz you wanted a sequel to 2 so bad. And now years later, You guys love it and and didn’t realize how good they had it lol

Bad Company 2 is an amazing game. Gotta play it whilst we still can only 7 ish months left

Bad Company 2 is just a little under BF3 for me in terms of enjoyment. With that said I played an ungodly amount of this game on the PS3. Eventually I had the platinum star on every assault rifle and had at least gold for every SMG. I enjoyed every class and some maps are burned into my brain. I introduced two of my friends to Battlefield with this game.

I gotta say, i agree with you on the class balance topic. While I personally think that Engineer is the best class in BC2, BC2s class system was a lot more balanced. A good example of a poorly balanced class imo is support from BFV. The LMGs kind of just feel like ARs with bipods, they didnt have distinct recoil or overly distinct handling. The MMGs are notorious for having no mobility, but you can kind of just pick a shotgun as well which is like the polar opposite of an MMG. Most of Supports gadgets are either shared with assault or simmilar to assault gadgets. Barely anyone uses ammo crates as objectives in BFV have ammo resupply points and you can get ammo from killed enemies. If support didnt have recon spotting for suppression for some reason support would be a pretty mid infantry class..

I remember nothing about the campaign for Bad Company 2 but I spent a lot of time on the multiplayer. That said I believe the only moment I remember is when I was able to snipe someone that was literally across the map. I believe me and a friend were hanging out at the back of the map trying to snipe people from really long distance. Took about 3 seconds for the bullet to reach its target and I had to worry about the bullet falling over the large distance but I landed the shot. Never spent much time on a Battlefield after Bad Company 2. Battlefield 3 and 4 having terrible launches kept me out for a long while until Battlefield 4 went on sale I believe but I didn't stick around for long, don't remember why. Had fun with Battlefield 1 but it paled in comparison to the amount of time I sunk into the multiplayer for Battlefield Bad Company 1 and 2. Sad to hear the game's getting shut down soon as well as the destructible buildings getting taking out in later games. Talking about the filters for Battlefield 3 and 4 reminded me of the egregious "Breaking Bad Mexico" filter that Resident Evil 5 had. I love RE5 but once I saw a mod that turned the yellow filter off the game looked SOOOOOO much better.

The fact that bad company 1, 2 and 1943 are being shut down make me hope that at least theyll add more bad company 1and 2 content to bf portal, bf942 content too not so much 1943. Also while the xm8 never ended up replacing the m16/m4 it does see service with the malaysian military

As a memorial, someone should post the names of all the maps so we can remember them all with fond memories.

battlefield 2 and BC2 were my youth defining games. R.I.P BF2 -=Ruelz=- servers

Fuck, now that I wanted to replay Bad Company 2 I learn this shit.

My favorite is 4 but I liked Hardline, very fun for a spin-off.

My favourite shooter of all time, and it’s not close

bc 2 was a blast & my fav. mp-fps by far! i loved the more arcade sniping without bullet drop, i loved the inability to go prone which made it harder to camp-snipe and kept the flow alive, the gunplay was savage, the guns were a joy to play and all felt different, the maps were fun and cleverly designed, it had the best destruction engine of any bf game by far, a great dlc (vietnam) fun & balanced classes..oh and even the singleplayer was kinda fun!🙂 the only 2 negative things that come to my mind were 1: choppers were a pain in the ass in the main game (and fragile like a sheet of paper in vietnam lol) and the constant revive / die thing made me rage more than once😂 other than that: pure love❤️ i will miss this gem of a game but i keep many good memories, and even long lasting friendships with awesome people🤘

This game means so much too me🥹 so much memories. I dont know How many hours i have on it

my ps3 homies and I would swap between this and World at War constantly. good times. ComanderD, devildog, privatepie if you're out there. love you miss you. *smooch*

I just played for 2 hours.. God ill miss this feeling.