Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #209 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Released on: 2008-06-27
• Platform: PLAYSTATION 3

Manufacturer's Description

Set in the near future, the Battlefield: Bad Company single-player campaign drops gamers into a dramatic Eurasian conflict. As part of a squad of four soldiers, players risk it all to go AWOL on a personal quest, fighting their own war within the war. Featuring a dramatic storyline flavored 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 franchise's legendary multiplayer sandbox game play in a dynamic world where nearly everything is destructible. Gamers 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 a full suite of the franchise's trademark multiplayer game play, supporting 24 players online.

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 unrivaled graphics, effects and game play.

Customer Reviews

Bang! and the map is gone!
Battlefield: Bad company is a first person shooter (ofcourse) with a sense of humour, the one-liners are certainly alot better than that of "Horatio Kane" of CSI:Miami fame.

The game is based around 4 soldiers in the B(ad) Compay, sent out into modern combat...

The single player is mediocre, my favourite line must be "I swear I saw a guy with an eye patch in that barrel/box" it made me laugh. You basically complete objectives over pretty huge maps, allowing you to go anywhere, it is reminiscent of Mercenaries on PS2, but better.

The guns certainly do feel powerful even with the lack of rumble, and the characters are also rather loveable, even is they are US Soldiers.

The main selling point of this game HAS to be the "90%" destructable environments, I remember first playing and spraying a round of fire at a group of trees, they splintered abit and then nothing, I looked again to see them all topple over into a woody heap.

The online mode of this game is both good and bad, ofcourse the destruction means you are NEVER safe, especially when you are camped up in a house, and hear a dreaded tank roll closer, and when that turret turns on you, your heart will skip a beat, thats for sure! The bad thing about Online, is that the game ships with ONE game mode. "Gold Rush", think Sabotage from CoD, but with Gold instead of Objectives, the objective is to find the enemies gold, and blow it up.

However a new update has seen a new mode released called Conquest, however I am yet to play this.

Please ignore people comparing this to CoD, okay, the online isn't as good, but this is in a different league, it runs paralell(can NEVER spell that) to call of duty, it does not compete against it. Simple as.

8/10

Older gamer review
OK, I am 34, so probably older than a lot of peeps playing this game, though surely not the oldest!

First off, I do not have time to sit down and play a game for hours on end. I have maybe a couple of hours during the week and maybe a few hours at the weekend if I'm lucky ;-)

On that basis, I have to say Bad company is an ideal game. It is great fun, the individual missions are nicely broken up with automatic saves at key points, fast load times, the humour actually works, the graphics are very good (although some screen tearing does spoil it) and the sound, the sound is amazing.

I have a surround sound hifi separates 5.1 system. Bad Company sounds AWESOME. When I let off a grenade inside a building, BOOM.

I don't think my neighbours like me anymore. They have not complained. It might be something to do with the extremely loud gunfire.

As I already mentioned the missions are nicely broken up with saves. I find this very important given my limited playtime available. More than that however I have never found it frustrating to die and then restart a particular bit. I actually look forward to going back in and blowing stuff up. This contrasts with GTA4 where I get really sick and tired of having to start a 40 minute mission all over again (and having to buy guns and flak jackets beforehand etc). Restarting a mission in GTA4 is a chore, restarting a mission in Bad Company is immediate and painless. Maybe not a fair comparison given the games are so different, but there it is.

I am very happy I made this impulse buy. Never thought I'd say that about an EA game.

Awesome fun! but Lag Ruins it...
What can i say?

I really enjoy this game, Multiplayer especially but (yes the bad word) Multiplayer has at times dreadful lag, on nearly all matches you will have lag and if your unlucky you will get it bad!

But (well now its the good word) Single Player is still great fun! Good Storyline, Awesome Gameplay, but (bad again) the missions can be a little repetitve but (reasurring) not all the times.

So lets talk about the game itself, Graphics are very good! i do think they are a little rubbish at times. Also the maps are very big! and are free to roam. The gameplay is amazing, Destructive Enviroments (also huge enviroments) Lots of weapons, and ranking on Multiplayer (when i say 'Multiplayer' im referring to Online, since there is no offline Multiplayer)

So what can i say about this game overall?

Its an amazing game but with Lag on Multiplayer which ruins the game (at times) immensely!