I have not played Bad Company 2 or the first game and honestly I knew nothing about them, I just wanted to check out the campaign.

For it's time I think it looks decent and it also plays as "modern" FPS. Soundtrack is pretty nice, controls were fine to me. Game run solid on Windows 10 without major issues. Game's story was alright. Difficulty was alright.

But to be honest, the campaign was weird for me. At first the character interactions sound very stupid, didn't made much sense and I actually had to read a bit more about the universe of the game. You don't have to play BC 1 to know about the story of BC 2, but you will have a hard time to know which character behaves how. Also, there were some graphical glitches in the cut scenes and also some dust, sand and snow effects were really strong and it was a challenge to see anything in this game sometimes. On higher difficulty especially the enemy likes to wall bang you without a question in certain spots which makes the game more difficult. The core gameplay is not bad, but definitely something you need to adjust to if you have played more recent shooters which has higher movement speed and agile movement.

The multiplayer is not available in the current form of the game, however there are Steam guides which has work around for that and you can actually play BC 2 Multiplayer and to see if there are any servers for it.

I know it's not fair to judge a Battlefield game solely on the campaign, but it was not bad but not great either. If you get over the fact the some dialogues sounds silly without knowing the characters and the "lore", get used to the 2010's FPS gameplay you can have some alright time with it. If you can get this one around 8€ or less, give it a go but otherwise skip it. It does not worth more than that.