{"id":4969,"date":"2010-09-07T14:25:36","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T20:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/?p=4969"},"modified":"2010-09-07T14:25:36","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T20:25:36","slug":"battlefield-bad-company-2-reader-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/07\/battlefield-bad-company-2-reader-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Battlefield: Bad Company – Reader Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Reader reviews are from readers here at GamerDad. Many of them are written by kids under 15 and that makes them a valuable insight into how kids really think about games. So, without further ado, here’s Vincent’s (13) take on this Mature Teen rated wargame:<\/p>\n

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Bad Company is a FPS made by EA. It’s claim for fame is it’s graphics engine, which unlike the popular Call of Duty franchise, allows an almost fully destructible environment. For example, if someone was sniping you from a building, you could just blow a hole in the wall with a grenade launcher, while shooting a wall in Call of Duty results in a nice explosion with no impact on the environment. Both game’s engines have their ups and downs, and are fun in their own way.<\/p>\n

Bf: BC starts you off with three other guys in a group called “Bad Company” Bad Company is the misfits of the army who have done terrible things. For example, your character blew up an American helicopter by accident and one of your partners blew up an ammunition factory. Yeah, pretty bada**. That’s another thing. Since you are with these bada**es, you will hear them swear. A lot. During battle there will be sh*ts and d*mns. There is never an F-Bomb, but you will hear sh*t occasionally when somebody is knifed, and at the multiplayer missions you may hear, “D*mn it, we lost our gold! You guys suck!”<\/p>\n

But other than that you won’t really hear that much else. The language I would say is appropriate for 11 year olds at the most, maybe less if your child can\/has handled swears before. Thing I have noticed is once you hit middle school, kids go from\u00a0never swearing to saying f*ck on a regular basis. Of course, they never swear in front of parents (trust me, I know). So if your child is 11 and under, make sure they can handle swearing, as I know a few youngsters that would become instantly shy or nervous if they heard an older one swearing (not that’s it’s a bad thing, by any means, but I want your child to have fun while play this game, not nerve wrecked).
\nAs for violence, it’s the average FPS, but with no blood (editor: the ESRB lists blood – so I guess it’s in small enough amounts to not stand out). From my viewpoint, blood isn’t a big deal in FPS because stuff goes by so fast you don’t have time to stare at some red pixels on the chest of a dead or wounded solider. But if you or your child is squeamish, and even the littlest amount blood can make them faint, do not fear, because no blood is here! You are still shooting people with guns from the perspective of a soldier in battl . Also I would not recommend this game if you do not want to expose you child to the “horrors” of war, but I think most people can handle it just fine. It isn’t scary in any way, but I know some parents who want don’t want their child to know that people\u00a0die in war etc.,<\/p>\n

The game itself is a well made FPS, and while it’s a little outdated, is still fun and enjoying. The campaign, while short, is interesting and funny at times. The comments from your partners actually made me crack up sometimes. The online multiplayer is fun and compelling. And of course, blowing up buildings is a hell of a lot of fun.<\/p>\n

My overall standpoint is that this game is appropriate for 11 and up for sure, and some kids within a couple years of 11 (eg. 9) could play it if parents believed it was okay. This game is almost on par with the CoD MW franchise in terms of adult content, so while I rate this for 11 year olds, MW2 I believe would be a great game for a mature 13 year olds as it gives a stronger message about warfare.<\/p>\n

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GamerDad NOTE: These are the opinions of a 13 year old boy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reader reviews are from readers here at GamerDad. Many of them are written by kids under 15 and that makes them a valuable insight into how kids really think about games. So, without further ado, here’s Vincent’s (13) take on this Mature Teen rated wargame:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reader-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}