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| From: Electronic Arts
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Rating:  31 reviews
Sales Rank: 198
Platform: Playstation 3
Genre: Action Games
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
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Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Playstation 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.3 x 0.4
MPN: 15437
UPC: 014633154375
EAN: 0014633154375
ASIN: B000WS97QI
Release Date: June 23, 2008
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| Features:
| • | Genre-defining multiplayer: Support for 24 players online in a world designed to take full advantage of the game's massively destructible environments. | | • | Cinematic single-player experience: A deep campaign loaded with attitude follows a wayward band of ordinary soldiers who risk it all on a quest for personal gain. | | • | War, your way Battlefield: Bad Company environments are 90 percent destructible, meaning that any structure can be demolished down to its foundation. Gamers can shape the battlefield to match their play style ? the possibilities are literally endless. | | • | New vehicles, weapons and toys: Land, air or sea, dozens of new tools are waiting for explosive experimentation. Battlefield: Bad Company gives gamers the building blocks to get creative and usher in a new era of their own "Battlefield moments". | | • | Frostbite game engine DICE's Frostbite game engine raises the bar for next-gen gaming, with stunning HD graphics that bring characters, vehicles, and environments to life like never before. |
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Product Description
Set in the near future, the Battlefield: Bad Company single-player campaign drops gamers behind enemy lines as part of a squad of four soldiers, risking it all to go AWOL on a personal quest. Featuring a dramatic storyline flavored with attitude, Battlefield: Bad Company leads you far from the traditional frontlines on a wild ride with a group of renegade soldiers who decide that sometimes the gratitude of a nation just isn't enough. The Battlefield: Bad Company cinematic single-player experience captures the freedom and intensity of the Battlefield series' multiplayer sandbox gameplay in a dynamic world where nearly everything is destructible. You have total freedom to be daring and innovative, adapting to and tackling challenges in unexpected Battlefield-style ways. Create sniping positions by blowing out a piece of a wall or drive your tank straight through a small house. The ever-changing battlefield forces you, your teammates, and enemies to react accordingly. The game also features the all-new, objective based multiplayer game mode Gold Rush, supporting 24 players online. Play as attackers and defenders and make full use of the tactical destruction as well as the unique vehicle experience of Battlefield: Bad Company. Battlefield: Bad Company is the first game built from the ground up for next-generation consoles using DICE's bleeding-edge Frostbite game engine, delivering unrivalled graphics, effects and gameplay.
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Sometimes the gratitude of a nation just isn't enough Set in the near future, the Battlefield: Bad Company single-player campaign drops gamers behind enemy lines as part of a squad of four soldiers - risking it all to go AWOL on a personal quest. Featuring a dramatic storyline flavoured with attitude, Battlefield: Bad Company leads gamers far from the traditional frontlines on a wild ride with a group of renegade soldiers who decide that sometimes the gratitude of a nation just isn’t enough. The Battlefield: Bad Company cinematic single-player experience captures the freedom and intensity of the Battlefield series’ multiplayer sandbox gameplay in a dynamic world where nearly everything is destructible. Players have total freedom to be daring and innovative, adapting to and tackling challenges in unexpected Battlefield-style ways. Create sniping positions by blowing out a piece of a wall or drive your tank straight through a small house. The ever-changing battlefield forces players, their teammates and enemies to react accordingly.
The game also features the all new, objective based multiplayer game mode "Gold Rush", supporting 24 players online. Play as attackers and defenders and make full use of the tactical destruction as well as the unique vehicle experience of Battlefield: Bad Company.
Battlefield: Bad Company is the first game built from the ground up for next-generation consoles using DICE’s bleeding-edge Frostbite game engine, delivering unrivalled graphics, effects and gameplay. | Key Features
- War, your way - Battlefield: Bad Company environments are highly destructible, meaning that there are few safe points to hide. Gamers can shape the battlefield to match their play style – the possibilities are literally endless.
- Genre-defining multiplayer - Support for 24 players online in a world designed to take full advantage of the game’s massively destructible environments.
- New vehicles, weapons and toys - Land, air or sea, dozens of new tools are waiting for explosive experimentation. Battlefield: Bad Company gives gamers the building blocks to get creative and usher in a new era of their own “Battlefield moments”.
- Cinematic single-player experience - A deep campaign loaded with attitude follows a wayward band of ordinary soldiers who risk it all on a quest for personal gain.
- Frostbite? game engine - DICE’s Frostbite game engine raises the bar for next-gen gaming, with stunning HD graphics that bring characters, vehicles, and environments to life like never before.
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Genre-defining multiplayer
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| B Company
Welcome to the 222nd Army battalion, B-company. This is where the Army rakes together all the insubordinates, hellraisers and troublemakers that won’t fit in any other unit. When the Rangers and Deltas are too expensive to waste, these guys are the first ones in.
They’re called “Bad Company”; a mismatched bunch of rejects selected to serve their country as cannon fodder. This isn’t the kind of outfit a lot of soldiers would join voluntarily. Getting transferred to “the B” is a punishment and a way for the generals to put all their rotten eggs in one basket.
No one starts out in Bad Company. But for some, this is where they end up. |
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| Customer Reviews:
 COULD BE SO MUCH BETTER August 12, 2008
Joe Velazquez (VIRGINIA BEACH, VA)
THE ONLY THING I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH IS THAT YOU CAN'T LAY DOWN AS IN THE FIST AND THERE IS ONLY ASSULT OR DEFEND TYPE GAME. DEPENDING ON YOUR TEAM; SOME GAMES WOULD LAST ABOUT 30M WHICH GETS FRUSTRATING. I HAVE PLAYED THIS GAME SINCE IT FIRTS CAME OUT AND I DID NOT LIKE IT BUT THE MAPS ARE AWESOME AND SLOWER PACED THEN MODERN COMBAT. SNIPING IS EASY AND THE INABILLITY TO CUSTOMIZE YOUR GUN SUCKS COMPARED TO MODERN COMBAT. I LOVE THE GAME BUT RENT IT FIRST JUST TO BE SURE YOU WILL KEEP IT AND NOT END UP SELLING IT ON EBAY.
 Good single player, great multiplayer August 10, 2008
K. Anderson (Long Island, NY United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Single Player:
Battlefield: Bad Company's single player mode is good and I enjoyed playing it. It adds a few things that separate it from the pack: wide open playing areas and destructible enviroments. Unlike Call of Duty 4's linear gameplay, here you can approach enemies from different angles. This is nice because the whole game feels less claustrophobic and scripted. Sometimes you choose whether you want to snipe from afar or go in blasting away, or you can storm the enemy with a tank or other armored vehicles. Blowing away stuff with tanks and the helicopter is a blast so to speak. The destructible environment is great and I can see it being the future of FPS games because after this blasting a thin wall with a grenade launcher and seeing it still standing will seem silly now.
The control is good except for aiming. It's way too sensitive and takes awhile to get used to, especially after being accustomed to the precision of COD4. I turned the sensitivity all the way down and still it never feels right. I had to turn it back up for multiplayer because otherwise you turn too slow and you're a sitting duck.
The graphics are very nice and do the job, however I never really had the wow factor. You travel around with three squad mates with different abilites and yes they do help you out. But of course it's up to you to get the job done. The voice acting is great and so is the motion capture, these guys sounded and moved like real people which adds to the immersion of the game. However, the dialogue is silly. These guys are always joking around and they have some funny lines, but it's so unrealistic that it diminishes the game. One of the reason people loved COD4 so much is the realism. You grew attached to your squadmates, like Captain Price, because they talked like real people would in the middle of a war. That game took war seriously, and by the time you got to that amazing ending, you felt genuine emotion. In Bad Company, I always felt like I was just playing a simple videogame. The contrast between humor and war didn't work for me, and there was no emotional connection to the characters. Characters like the real people in COD4 and Drakes Fortune should be the future, it's time to move on from stereotypical videogame characters.
So if we must compare and take everything into consideration, overall COD4 is a superior FPS experience.
Multiplayer:
Multiplayer is a hell of a good time and by far the best part of this game. There's a lot to do, you can drive tanks and armored vehicles and also the helicopter (and if you want to rack up tons of points practice flying the helicopter in the single player because in multi it is extremely powerful). There are now two team modes: Gold Rush and Conquest mode. Both require different strategies and approaches. I like conquest mode the best. What I like most in this multi is the sense of teamwork that you feel. The point system encourages good teamwork and I like healing guys or fixing a guys tank and then hopping in and being his gunner. I wasn't to crazy about some of the maps in Conquest mode, they feel too small and there's a lot of dying going on.
There are I think 5 different classes with different guns and equipment. Over time you learn what class works best in different situations. If there are a lot of vehicles on the map I go with support class because you get a tool to fix tanks and other vehicles, and other maps it's usually just assault class with a good gun, grenades and the healing ability. Being an effective sniper in this game is not easy due to the destructible environments. You can't just sit by a little window in an attic forever, eventually they'll blast you out. This multiplayer is challenging and people new to FPS multis will die continuously at first. But if you soldier on and not get discouraged you'll begin to understand where to be and when. As you rack up points you increase in rank and can unlock equipment. As far as lag I never have any, everything runs very smoothly, but that could vary by person. Overall I love this multiplayer and am very addicted.
So the bottom line is Bad Company is a good single player and a great multiplayer and definitely worth playing.
kick some 455 August 8, 2008
Jeremy L. Miller
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
i would buy this game but i wouldn't buy it from amazon because i bought it july 7 2008 and still have'nt received it or my money back......so will never use amazon again because the people they let sell stuff don't send it or reply to emails
Who buys Battlefield for single player? August 8, 2008
Christopher Raissi (Marietta, Georgia)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Battlefield 2: Mission Complete was one of my favorite online multiplayer games when it came out for the Xbox 360. The well designed maps, vehicles, and weapons kits made it a game that was more than your run of the mill run-around-like-an-idiot-deathmatch first person shooter. Battlefield: Bad Company takes that one step further.
Kits:
Each weapons kit suits a different style of play. They all also play a vital role on each map. With games like CoD4, the kits don't really serve as much of a function as the gameplay is still your standard deathmatch type. (I tried the other gameplay, but the learning curve is steep. In my experience, only "l33t" gamers venture outside of the team deathmatch servers.) With the added feature of the destructibility of the BF: BC maps, the kit selection is even more important. You can create your own paths to the gold crates and eliminate your enemy's opportunity for cover.
Vehicles:
This is one area that sets BF: BC apart from its competitors. The addition of vehicles ads an element of strategy to the gameplay simply not present in CoD4. There are many vehicle types in this game: tanks, armored transport vehicles, artillery pieces, and helicopters. Each provides a team, attack or defense, with a respectable force to be reckoned with on the battlefield. Unless you know how to respond to each threat, your team will be overwhelmed. Conversely, if you are operating one of these vehicles and do not know how to respond to enemy countermeasures, you will find yourself jumping into tanks simply to die before you make it to the enemy's base.
Maps:
For the most part, they are small. They are small maps designed to create small, fast, urban warfare environments. Even the maps that have a lot of space, combat is bottlenecked into villages where the crates are contained. As an attacker or defender, the maps provide predictable locations for the majority of the combat. The addition of destructible environments allows for some deviation and an element of the unpredictable.
Negative aspects:
The only negative that I've experienced are lag issues with the servers. Twice I've had >450 scores with some time left in the game just to have the server lock up on me and force me to restart my PS3. After those two occasions, though, I've been able to identify that I'm on a server with lag issues and log out for another one before having the system lock up on me. If you're on one map and having lag issues, Ascension for example, just leave that game and select a game on Over and Out. Usually it takes just one switch for me to find a server that is free of lag.
Voice chat is a concern. I've frequently found myself on teams filled with new players making juvenile mistakes. All it would take to fix those mistakes is the ability to communicate with my teammates. Sadly, I don't have a bluetooth headset and don't plan on buying one. Even those with the headsets have complaints that they are unable to communicate.
Overall:
I'd say that this game is far better than the competitors currently found in the genre. For the PS3 everything else is centered around typical deathmatch play. Battlefield provides a more realistic first person shooter experience, and that in my opinion makes it more fun.
 Worth maybe around $30 August 5, 2008
Michael Dorsey
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
It seems much hype was built up for this game and after playing for a few hours I can see much of what is said is way over stated. This game is no where near Battlefield 2 and lacks just the basic multilayer features, voice chat anyone? There are only a few maps and just ONE game play type. Hardly any weapons and much you can only unlock from either being a God at this game or by paying a few extra bucks for the Gold Edition. I will admit the game was fun for a few hours but the replay value is almost non existent. I have a feeling that in a few months from now players will leave this game for another. I would keep this game in my collection, if I only paid around $30 for it.
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