 - 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. Amazon.com: 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. |
Customer Reviews: Rating: 
Date: 2008-07-08
Better than I feared
As with everyone else in America and around the world, I was a HUGE fan of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. I have never played Battlefield before and was told it's better than COD. Although I don't agree it being better, it's absolutely on the same level. The realism is what I go for in these games. I love, LOVE how everything is destructible and people realistically die. My only set back with this game, which I quickly got over, was when you respawn in single player. I got over it quickly because I was just getting used to some of the controls, but that's the only not realistic part of the game. Overall, this is one of the best of the year, so far. Rating: 
Date: 2008-07-08
Battlefield & Chaos
Battlefield Bad Company is a FPS for the XBOX 360, This is an open world combat game similar to Medal of Honor Airborne and Frontlines Fuels of War. But most people feel that it must be compared to Call Of Duty 4, which of course is the best FPS on the 360.
Playing the single player campaigne in Bad Company has you fighting alongside a squad of three AI (artifical intelligence).The real problem is with your AI sqaudmates whom are brain dead! They will stand out in the open and not shoot back at the enemies. The enemy AI are shooting hailstorms of bullets at you but seldomly attack the AI squadmates on your team. This shoddy programming takes away from the realism and makes the game feel cheesy and low budget.
Does that mean that the single player is junk? Not for me at least. Since your sqaudmates are useless, it just means that you will do most of the combat and mission objectives by yourself. Many of the missions had such intense firefights that it will remind you of those other great FPS. The maps are very massive and open for the most part. This open world combat lets you devise your own plan of attack which is an excellent experience in itself. There are plenty of weapon pickups and checkpoints which automatically save your progress. If you get killed, you just respawn from the last checkpoint you passed.
The levels use streaming technology which means no loading times when going from one part of the map to the next. The levels also are persistant which means that whatever destruction you caused or enemies you killed; they remain the same and DO NOT reset after you get killed. The best thing about Bad Company is the destructiblility. Trees, containers, vehicles, and walls can be destroyed. The graphics and sound effects do a good job of conveying the chaos from this destruction.
Unfortunately, there is only one game mode type for multiplayer online. The mode is called, "Gold Rush" thhough it should be renamed to "Head Rush", because there is so much going on at the same time during the battles which allows up to (12) players on each team.The defending team protects the gold crates, while the attacking team tries to destroy it by either planting a charge on the crate or simply shooting at it till it blows up. Mortars shower from above, attack choppers dominate from the air, battle tanks destroy by ground, artillary strikes are awesome, air strikes have lethal precision. All the while lots of small skirmishes are taking place- Specialists running around with their Silenced SMGs, Demolitionist blasting with their shotguns, Snipers killing from afar, Support providing suppressive fire and Assualt soldiers aggressively attacking everyone.
Despite some of its flaws, the chaotic battles, destructive environments, and award winning sound of effects make Battlefield Bad Company an enjoyable experience for FPS fans. It is not a Perfect game by any means and it probably won't topple COD4, but Bad Company it is certainly one of the best open world combat games avaible for the XBOX 360.
PROS:
+Open world combat
+Destructible environments
+Massive Levels
+Excellent Map Designs
+Ragdoll Physics
+Jaw dropping sound effects
+Excellent controls
+Balanced Weapons
+Intense firefights
Cons:
-Brain dead AI in single player mode
-only ONE multiplayer mode
-It does not win over COD4
Rating:
Date: 2008-07-03
Get over COD4
All I would like to say is that everyone needs to get over COD4 and stop comparing new first person shooter that come out to COD4. COD4 was been out almost a year now GET OVER IT!!!!! its time to move on to somthing new. Not saying that COD4 is a bad game because its not and we all know that. All I am saying let play somthing else.
This game is a real fun game try it you might like it. Rating: 
Date: 2008-07-03
Not really what I consider a good FPS
Good:
The Destructable environment is a step forward.
Not So Good:
The game is 90% dominated by armor, helios, fixed guns etc. I'm sure there are tons of plp that never get out of the tanks. They just take a new one every time they spawn.
**WAY WAY TOO MUCH** of the game (mabye 90%) is controlled by Armor, Helios, Artillary, etc.
Graphics and sound are not as good as COD4.
Way to hard to drop people with small arms. If you've got the drop on someone (anyone) at close range with a full auto weapon they should go down. (notice the period)
Overall:
I'm sure over time I'll get to like the game better. I don't think I'll ever like it as much as COD4, mostly due to low value on actual first person shooting. Mabye fixing the total amount of mechs or being able to limit their effectiveness by blowing bridges or something would help. Rating: 
Date: 2008-07-02
People think this game is "amazing" ???
This game is disappointing at best. It's just like Assassin's Creed in the regard that it's a game solely made to show off a new type of gaming engine. Yeah, you can blow up trees and walls, great. The graphics are terrible! I don't know what game other people are playing but this looks like Medal of Honor for the PS2! The accuracy of the weapons is horrible and enemies take whole clips to be killed. The health injection and checkpoints take all the difficulty out of the game. You can die 1000 times and still come back to the same spot and the enemies don't respawn. I truly believe that this is a down grade from the last game, BF:MC I LOVE FPS's. I've played 'em all. I'm just really let down by this release. By the way, You can't talk to anyone outside of your 4 man squad on a 12 man team in multiplayer! That really helps the whole team work and strategy aspect of the game... I give this game a 2 instead of a 1 simply because there are far worse games out there. I'm just overall disappointed. I wish EA still supported BF:MC!!!! |
