Battlebit Remastered is the second coming of Battlefield: Bad Company

polygon.com:

A little more than a decade ago, my friends and I graduated from college and were scattered across the state to our shitty first apartments and reclaimed parents’ basements. Just about every day after work, we’d come back together in Battlefield: Bad Company 2.

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This was back before Fortnite, when the default dudes’ online hang zone was Call of Duty. But for us, Bad Company 2 (and eventually Battlefield 3) just made sense. The franchise was running on a wonderful mix of nerdy mechanical depth and absolutely unhinged slapstick sandbox action that made it a joy to return to every night.

Apparently, I’m not the only one with fond memories of this particular era of Battlefield, because Battlebit Remastered has been blowing up the Steam charts lately. The game’s promo art pays tribute to early-2010s Battlefield box art, and the gameplay leans even harder into the franchise’s contrast between silly and simmy.

The first thing you’ll notice is that the game looks like it was built in Roblox. Character models are blocky little cartoon dudes with primitive animations, while the soundscape reaches for verisimilitude, with loud, punchy gunfire. The maps are textureless and flatly shaded, but geometrically complex. Buildings are fully accessible, meaning every window on a crowded city block is a potential