I just got Battlefield: Bad Company for PS3, and it was like trying to conquer King Kong all over again. These PS3 games are friggin HUGE! Anyhow, I just won my first online game/match/round/whatever as the highest scorer after about an hour and a half of total time in the game, and I feel like such a badass right now because the environment is helter skelter, baby. Extreme, raw mayhem. You've got shit blowing up all over the place, cross fire here and there, you name it. If you need to get into a building, knock out a wall with a grenade. That's how things are done in this game. It really fucked with me first, because not only not knowing the terrains made me lost most of the time, but it's got to be the first game like this where when you get killed it doesn't show you where the guy got you from. So after you respawn you'd be wandering through the same village and the same guy would get me again. Talk about frustrating. Well I learned quick to be more cautious of my cover and the situation resolved itself. Pretty soon I was the one making it into their base and terrorizing them. One big gripe I have is that neither the manual nor the controls under options tell you what to press to talk through the headset. I tried all the buttons as far as I can think of, and nothing. And I know for a fact that I can talk through my headset, even though it's the same one I used for PS2 that still works for SOCOM, because I hear people talking through their's. As an audio engineer I know that if signal is coming in, and the device can do both input and output, well I can send signal back. This could be why not a lot of people use their headsets in this game, huh? It's a real shame, because it's all about gathering intelligence of troop movement. This game spans for miles, by the way. Miles. It's predecessor, Battlefield 2, already had big maps, and this was PS2. Some of these maps seem to be nearly three times as big. In fact I ran across an open field thinking no one would bother to watch over it, and got picked off by a sniper. So you can imagine with terrain like this that communication might be beneficial. Anyway, I gotta give a big recommendation for this thing if you're into fun online shooters, as opposed to serious online shooters like SOCOM. And games rarely inspire me to write things like these.