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Forums - Gaming Discussion - Cod bashing, justifiable reasons

Phoeniks.Wright on 01 June 2011
richardhutnik said:
Phoeniks.Wright said:

Yeah, it was the level design. The fact that the story doesn't change isn't a problem, since it's a straight up "get the gold!" story, though that and the characters was it's charm, definitely. Going back to the levels, sure some parts were linear, but a great deal of the game was open ended, as in had multiple paths. The 2 most memorable ones for me are the secret passage that leads behind the castle and troops in the level where you have to rescue your friends, and when you have to get to the port through a huge field, just blitzed past in a light vehicle, it was so fun.

[There is likely some spoiler material below]

I remember successfully completing a number of levels in the first by going around the edge of the map and sneaking by everything.  For me, the story in the first was better, and I was hoping the second would have them as mercenaries battling the other mecenaries.  But, NOPE, they ended up toning down the humor a lot, and had a storyline like MW2.  It was SO disappointing to me.  I didn't laugh as much in the second one's single player.  I feel Bad Company does a MUCh better job as a series when it tries to lampoon other FPS titles.  B-Company in no way, shape or form are supposed to be hardcore spec-ops guys.  I want to know what happened that got them back into the military, considering the ending of the first.

I know, when I started playing the 2nd one, I immediatly wondered how the hell did this happen? There is absolutely no story continuity between the 2 games, and it's just wrong. How the hell does a group of reject soldiers, who just stole a truck full of gold, and are probably highly wanted by the legionnaire, who's still alive, end up as dead serious spec ops, hunting a secret weapon in a race against the russians? It's just so WTF.

And momentarily coming back to the thread topic, here's a perfect case of CoD-ifying a game. Everything that I dislike in CoD is put in Bad company 2, the horrible story, the linearity and the string of scripted moments. This really screws people like me over, who really liked the design and story of Bad company 1.

Oh, and I will have to try that sneaking past everything, sounds fun.