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| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: $59.99
Buy New: $49.50
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Avg. Customer Rating:  36 reviews
Sales Rank: 145
Platform: Xbox 360
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Edition: Standard
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 12 - 20 years
Operating System: Xbox 360
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 15576
UPC: 014633155761
EAN: 0014633155761
ASIN: B000WSE2WM
Release Date: June 23, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: BRAND NEW, FACTORY SEALED, NEVER USED OR OPENED, SHIP WITHIN 24 HRS FR CA
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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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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. |
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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 Battlefield Bad Game! August 18, 2008
I really REALLY wanted to like this game.I saw the commercials with the sharp graphics and witty funny dialogue and thought 'This is going to be a great game' right?WRONG!And I am sorry to say this.Now,I play a lot of first person shooter games and some are better than others obviously.But I've never played one that had so much promise and failed in almost every concievable way possible.Now,before I get to the terrible parts let me start with the very few positive available.
Lets start off with the graphics.They are very realistic and you'll be surprised great they are.The best I've seen in a game of this type so far.The duel acessories/weapon selection is cleaver.You can repair any vehicle pretty fast with a rivot-type gun which is useful.And the dialogue the men in Bad Company during the campaign is actually pretty funny and comedy is certainly a nice change of pace in a game about war and death.And the coolest part of the game is actually firing the Artillery pieces with a airial view a lot of fun especially online.
Now,here comes the bad parts which are considerable so bare with me through all of them.Let's begin on the game mechanics.Selecting weapons are cumbersome and awkward.You'll shuffle through one only to realize that you skipped it.And you would think that the standard L1-R1 weapon select system would have been more than adequate to easily get the job done,but L1 selects the acessories and R1 selects weapons.Secondary weapons like a attached grenade launcher should be on L2 and use R2 to fire,but disappointingly enough it's an acessory so you have to select it with L1 which is more than awkward especially in the heat of battle.The reticles are almost useless and is hard to guage if you even have your target on it and the recoil moves it around so much you easily lose track of the enemy.Rocket Launchers are underpowered especially up close where they shoulb be the most effective like hitting a guy in the chest and him not dyingAnd a lot of the weapons you use online and unlockable ones you need special codes and they are extremely hard to get and then even more can only the be unlocked only if you'd pre order the game LAME!
Now to the campaign-The story is the backbone to any first person shooter and without one severely dilutes the online part which it does a lot.The whole concept is about finding enemy Gold and smuggling it out so everyone there can retire.Although this sounds like this is a great idea and a novel concept it's actually becomes stale and boring very quickly.Like I said I had no problem with the voice acting,but some may find it to be dumb and repetitive.Also,the intro just throws you into a Russian-type country without any backstory or explanation on how and why you are there which is the biggest flaw in the game.A good portion of the enemy A.I. even on the highest difficulty are dumb and are easy targets.
And finally Online-There are only two settings(Gold Rush and Conquest mode).And you can only get Conquest Mode only if you download it off of XBOX Live and please do it's head over shoulders better that playing Gold Rush by far.There is absolutely to talking in this game which I found wierd in a game so strategic as this one.At first I thought my Mic was broken,but then soon discovered after playing several consecutive games that there's simply isn't any at all.This might be a good thing however,because there is a lot of Team Killing that occurs.And I do mean a lot of it.This was preveilent in the first Battlefield game,but no where near the level that it is now.The HUD is useles as well.It doesn't show you where your team is at accurately and enemies appear as little tiny dots that you can barely see.But you don't have to worry much about this,because Snipers rule this game.You'll get picked off from a thousand yards away and have no idea what happened until it's too late.And don't ever EVER get into a vehicle especially a Helicopter with your Teammates around,because they will deliberately shoot at you until you die or the vehicle is rendered completely useless.Most players also have better weapons available that you do and if you're up against them you might as well leave the game.You only have about five maps to play on and only two of those are worth playing.The are big a bit too big and although you can select which spawn point you select,by the time you get into the battle the actual fighting is now a thousand miles away from you and you'll find yourself running or driving to the front lines.
Overall this game is a big disappointment.If you expect a great game you'll be sadly mistakened.I lay all the blame on the makers of the game who should have realized all of these problems and actually fix them.They deserve a special award for poor game design and flawed unsupervised online game play.And a thrown together jumbled mess of a story line.I could actually go on with more problems with the game,but that would drag this review even further.If you have to play this game I suggest you rent it,DO NOT buy this game!It's a waste of time and money.To finish all I have to say is this game might very well be the biggest disappointment of any video game and any genre I've ever seen and I hope I have given you all the information you need to avoid such a dreadful game as this one turned out to be.
 Most fun I have had in a while August 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I normally like to finish a game before reviewing it, but I can say that Battlefield: Bad Company is awesome and there is no point in me finishing it. This is absolute fun. RPGs going over your head. Your squad talking up a storm. You trying to run away from tanks. Getting blown-up and then getting shaken up because of the blast. In a short couple of words. Forget COD4, I think this is the most realistic game I have played. I haven't been in combat before, this has to be close. I have played most of the the popular FPS console games; Rainbow Six, COD, Ghost Recon, Halo and this will certainly satisfy me for a while.
I have seen the bad reviews on Amazon and I don't get it. Who cares that it isn't COD4. Call of Duty was so scripted anyway. It almost wants a first person shooter but an adventure game.
Bad Company is not hard, but it is fun to see if approaching a hotspot makes it easier on you. For example, I normally don't like using the vehicles (Tanks, etc) but if you do, they make it a lot easier.
Pros:
* Awesome sound
* Awesome gameplay and realistic environment
* Fun
* Funny story and characters
Cons:
* Horrible, horrible worthless friendly AI. The enemy AI seems pretty good to me. I saw an enemy soldier walk right up to the friendly and the friendly soldier didn't do anything.
* Maybe too realistic and chaotic. You can't tell what is going on.
* Stupid reviewers on Amazon, who want COD5.
Amazing August 9, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I loved this game great graphics awesome sound but the only thing I didn't like was it was to short but other than that I recommend it.
Great Game August 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great overall game. The storyline is solid, the gameplay is easy, while the AI challenge is definitely there without being way over the top. Online play is awesome. The one downside: no multiplayer unless your online. There seems to be only one online multiplayer mode too. Hopefully that gets updated. Id says its definitely worth the buy.
Fun game, still waiting. August 2, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
It's a great game awesome sound and graphics. Although we are still waiting for conquest mode, hopefully it will be here soon.
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