The pinnacle of the Battlefield series is at long last backward compatible on. Of course, I'm talking about Battlefield Bad Company 2, which came out way back in 2010. There have been four games in the franchise since Battlefield 3, 4, Hardline and last year's , but the developers at DICE still haven't gone back to the Bad Company well. As a refresher, the Bad Company sub-series started out as a PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 game, and put a big emphasis on the single-player campaign. It was a stark departure for the previously multiplayer-only and mostly PC-based franchise, and also served as the starting point for the that powers almost everything publisher Electronic Arts makes these days. The campaigns followed a ragtag group of disgraced soldiers and took a tone more along the lines of than Black Hawk Down. The writing was hilarious, often taking direct jabs at how over-serious Call of Duty and other military games had become -- something that even followed through to the game's marketing materials. What's most impressive, though, is that neither the multiplayer or campaign portions felt tacked on to service the other; each felt complete on their own. For Bad Company 2, DICE ramped up the humor and, on the tech side, the scale and destruction. Especially in terms of multiplayer. For a better idea of how the game plays, check out the video below. There's some colorful language, but it's all in the name of humor and giving a heads up on how to play effectively. After any given match, structures would be demolished and the map Arica Harbor, whatup? The chaos of squad-based combat left its scars on the, well, battlefield in a way that was fun and believable. Speaking of maps, to keep things fresh EA regularly gave out free map packs for a year after the game came out. Would that happen today? And while Battlefield 1 definitely scratches , I'm more excited to jump into a chopper in BC 2's with Creedence Clearwater Revival playing in the background than I am to man a mounted gun on a zeppelin over France again. Well, back in 2014, then-CEO Karl Magnus Troedsson explained that his studio didn't know what made the game so beloved to fans. Hence its long-standing hesitation. The good news is that with it being backwards compatible now, maybe you could find a few ways to articulate what's special about the game for EA. Battlefield 3 is on offer too, but if you didn't play it back in 2011, you aren't missing much six years later. Also, Dragon Age Origins, Battlefield: Bad Co. Movies by David Fincher and music from Amon Tobin, Deftones, Run the Jewels and Trent Reznor are his favorites. He has a complicated relationship with photography too and shares an exact birth date with Katy Perry.
