Well, some of those Bad Company maps seemed way to crowded to me.
Bad Company doesn't count as a proper Battlefield game. Hence why it has it's own series pretty much separate from the main series. The proper style Battlefield games are 1942, Vietnam, 2, 2142 and now 3.
Looking forward to all the old Battlefield fun though. Those games were glitchy as hell, could do so many stunts ect with them. I remember filming a load of standard stunts in Vietnam. Barrel rolling with a Chinook, swapping jets in mid air with your mate. Using the hook on the bottom of the helicopter with a load of people in and then doing a forward flip and releasing it, slinging them far across the map. 1942 was always the deployable MG booster that could send you flying across the map in an APC.
But yeah, a well positioned sniper has always been lethal in these games. Fortunately most people don't know how to position themselves so you can spot them easily even though they think they are in cover.