The Battlefield series used to go toe-to-toe with Call of Duty in the military first person shooter genre. It delivered some great titles in terms of both campaign and multiplayer, but saw a steep decline with the rough launch of Battlefield 2042. While Battlefield 1 is widely considered the last good game in the series, the real peak was during the Bad Company Days.
Bad Company 1 and 2 were more campaign-focussed, and told the story of a rag-tag army company with great chemistry and some memorable characters, akin to Captain Price, Soap, and the gang from Call of Duty. While we never got a third installment in the Battlefield: Bad Company series, lead designer David Goldfarb would love to work on one.
“I’m Right Here”
Speaking to PCGamesN, Goldfarm, who now works at Metal Hellsinger studio, The Outsiders, said that if EA was to ever come around to making Bad Company 3, he would jump at the chance to work on it.
“I am right here,” said Goldfarb. “They know where I am if they want to do one.” He reiterated that while he’d love to work on Bad Company 3, he’s currently dedicated to The Outsiders, who is currently working on an unannounced project. However, he explained what made Bad Company such a great game at the time.
I think the Bad Company franchise was special because it didn’t take itself seriously in the way many other games did,” he explained. “It prioritized fun and was totally cool with being what it was. My personal angle was to always make what I liked, so Bad Company 2 was very much Raiders of the Lost Ark as a buddy picture, and the multiplayer leaned into Rush hard because that was what I liked the most.
“I can’t speak for anyone else, but I know there was a collective feeling that we had our own identity for Bad Company, weird or not, and we were going to enjoy making it. It is actually something of a miracle we got to do it.”
Goldfarb revealed that he had started writing Battlefield: Bad Company 3 and even knew where it would be set. However, he doesn’t think that a new game in the series would be approved today.
“As with all these f****ing places, that’s why we don’t see those kinds of games anymore, because economics and risk aversion and all the other s**t turn people away from it. In many ways, Bad Company 2 was a perfect storm, though. I don’t know if we could do it again like that.”
Battlefield: Bad Company 2
Sequel to the first Bad Company game in the Battlefield franchise from DICE and Electronic Arts, Bad Company 2 is a classic Battlefield FPS experience that features a single-player story campaign and an extensive multiplayer mode. Players can either take on the role of Preston Marlowe or fight against other players.