| Battlefield: Bad Company | 
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| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $49.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (42 reviews)
Sales Rank: 443
Format: Cd
Platform: Playstation 3
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 15437
UPC: 014633154375
EAN: 0014633154375
ASIN: B000WS97QI
Release Date: June 23, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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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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| 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: Read 37 more reviews...
 Bad to the bone September 29, 2008
Is this a perfect game? No. But it's sure a helluva lot of fun and it has really raised the bar another notch. In my opinion, the graphics are up there with the best (CoD4, Ghost Recon: AWF, and Assassin's Creed). The character development is the best ever, you really start to like these guys. The dialogue is natural and funny, not the usual 'try too hard to be funny and fail', but an easy, believable funny. I've played it from start to finish in every imaginable angle of attack (even running down as many enemy soldiers with vehicles as possible) and I can't get enough. The vehicles handle easily and naturally (not like HAZE where it seems your always driving with the brake on), you can view through the drivers window and listen to one of three radio stations or go 3p. Each vehicle has it's unique handling characteristics and sound as does each weapon type. And on top of it all, the story line is unique and fun. Believable? As good as anything else out there. And, while the AI has some repetitive factors on the replay, like gun positions and tank locations and certain attack lines, there is also a lot of variation that keeps it interesting.
WOULD LIKE TO SEE: some real stealth segments and some bad weather and night time ops.
Personally, I don't think there's anything in the genre that is better, on a par maybe, but not significantly better.
For those of you that can only find fault, all I can say is, "If you can do better, do it. Otherwise, relax and enjoy what the game has to offer, look for the good, and stop trying to screw it up for everyone else." Sorry, but I haven't seen a 5 star yet.
 Another good Battlefield game. September 15, 2008
Another good game from the Battlefield series. The vehicles are just as fun as always as well as the classes. The ranking is nice too. After reaching rank 25 you can see how others are doing on a scale I am not sure how low it goes but 1 being the highest I think Ive seen some people are 30+ ranks. At least you know who plays all the time and who just is terribad.
For PC Game Dudes/Gals September 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
So I never have owned a console until I bought a PS3. I was a die-hard PC gamer (still am). I went out on a limb to buy the PS3; I wasn't sure I'd like it. It is actually pretty awesome. Now, I have played Battlefield 1942, Desert Combat (mod of BF1942), and Battlefield 2 on the PC. Basically these games are awesome on the PC. Multiplayer is the only way to play any of them and I have never been interested in a single-player version of the Battlefield series. However, I was very pleasantly surprised when I played the Bad Company single player version. I did so, only to get used to the PS3 controller. I can say that the a mouse and keyboard are by far the more preferrable way to play this game. However, you can do alright with the PS3 controller (plus it vibrates!). The multiplayer is fun. I like how the multiplayer is structured a little bit differently for the PS3. It had to be dumbed down a bit for a console and EA actually did a good job dumbing it down so it works on a console. The multiplayer is very good for a console... not as good as on a PC... but pretty awesome for sitting on the couch. Also the graphics are as nearly good as my PC. This is something I can hardly believe since I run NVIDIA SLI on my PC.
I really love the completely destructible environment in Bad Company. This is something that's missing from the PC games. Also, I love that EA kept the maps wide open like in the PC version. If you are a COD fan, you probably won't like the open maps as there is less "action." However I think the Bad Company open maps allow for better combat. It allows the snipers to be very effective. Also, you get to use vehicles. Tanks, jeeps, etc... this is awesome. I can't praise this game highly enough.
No Place to Hide September 11, 2008
I purchased this game after reading a few positive online reviews. This game, to me atleast, is a mixture of Delta Force (for those who do not remember Delta Force was a computer game from about 10 years ago that had infinitely large areas to explore and fight on), COD4 and GTA4 (3 very good games). The maps in the game are very large and can be navigated either by foot, tank, jeep, helicopter or boat. The best part of this game, and the most fun, is being able to blow out walls and roofs in buildings. No longer are players safe shooting from behind the walls of a building. I remember the first time I snuck around a building which had enemies inside, blew out the wall behind them and rushed in shooting from behind. This game is fun and addictive and I recommend it to anyone who has a PS3. Oh and the single player storline is intense, funny, and satisfying.
Really fun game...excellent FPS September 9, 2008
I've been playing BF/BC on the PS3 for a few months now and have to say that this game is really a heck of a lot of fun. The graphics are really great and the online gameplay is sweet. Practically everything in the game is destructible, trees, buildings, fences, pretty much whatever you can see, you can blow up.
There are two online game modes, "Gold Rush" and "Conquest". Conquest is is classic Battlefield "capture the flag" style game. Gold Rush is new to BC, and I have to say I find much more fun than conquest. I played BF Modern Combat quite a bit, and was slightly disappointed that BC didn't have conquest when I first bought it, but the more I played Gold Rush mode, the more I liked it. In fact, since conquest mode came out, I've only played it once, and really have no interest in playing it.
Weapons are grouped in the pretty much the standard BF style classes. Demolition, Assault, Recon, Support, and Specialist. Each one has its own group of weapons and gadgets that you cannot modify. Each class has locked weapons that become available to the player as they progress in online play. As the player gathers more weapons from unlocking, they will become available to the player in online play. So you may choose which primary weapon you would like to use, which is the only weapon customization you can perform. Of course, weapon choice depends on your class and which nation your team is representing.
Overall, I strongly recommend this game. You'll get many hours of enjoyment out of it.
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