GOLD! Sweet, Sweet GOLD! Who doesn't think about that once in a while? What you would do with millions of dollars. Unfortunately your daydream doesn't quite work out. Nothing like that happening for the boys of B-Company. You have Redford - the squad leader, Sweetwater, the technical guy, and Haggard - the gold lover. Then you have yourself, Preston Marlow, the new guy. All there for different reasons, all trying to finish their service - and by service, I mean getting rich. The new Battlefield franchise demonstrates the great continuation of a saga, and unlike many other FPS games, gives a unique touch to the series.

This game is great in the story, in that for Battlefield veterans, it gives them their style of combat, but has no correlation to the older games, so it is easy to come into for a Battlefield newbie like myself. However it isn't just the storyline you have to work on in the game. In true gold digger fashion, you find weapons known as 'collectibles' and gold crates belonging to the mercenaries...but stealing from a bad guy is OK, right?

 The achievements for this game are well spread out, with great names (that I wont spoil for you by telling you now - you will just have to unlock them to understand). Besides the level achievements, there are ones for knocking down walls in the excellent new Frostbite engine, but more on that later. The game has also changed from the standard of style of many shooters such as Halo 3 and Gears of War. Where previously you would heal from cowering from enemies, you can now jump out, and poke yourself with the auto-injector, or LIFE-2, which will heal you to full health, so you can laugh in their faces as they shoot at you! This also results in a comically named achievement. Also, should you happen to die, the foes you struck down (hopefully while laughing at them!) will stay down, and the same ensues with the houses you have wrecked, and the vehicles, which will no doubt need to be touched up by a mechanic.

The single-player isn't it though. Battlefield Bad Company has a great new unique multiplayer style. With multiple maps to choose from, and on each of them multiple vehicles to choose from. Not just that, but the five classes all packing a punch, giving you mortar strikes, anti-tank mines, remote explosives, and best of all, those goggles known as a laser designator. This game has the style of online that you can just keep playing over and over again and not get bored, and to juice it up are some great achievements, and an in-game style of achievement called 'awards'. These range from doing anything from killing three people with C4, to awards-of-awards, for example, getting two of two different awards in a round - known as a twin pair.

The thing I found most brilliant and unique across all the aspects of this game were the destructable environments. The Frostbite engine really is unique. Where in other games, walls disappear when you shoot at them, the Frostbite engine allows you to see the wall crumbling, and turning to rubble. It's unbelievably satisfying to go in a tank and blow up everything in sight...and then get rewarded for it by achievements!

The audio in this game is also great. The bullet sound is crisp, and not an annoying drone, which often results in games being terrible - the sound has the quality to make or break a game, and in Battlefield Bad Company, it just made it even better with Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound.

Overall, this game is a great game, mixing a game with hardcore action with great humour, which gives hardcore FPS fans and casual gamers hours of fun alike...or should I say days? This game is definately not one that gets left behind on the shelf - even just for an hour, this game is great online and offline, with it's great new unique features on the Frostbite engine.

After all, who could resist throwing a grenade with a smiley face into a crowd of hostiles...