Battlefield: Bad Company

10 Review to this product

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  ice grizzly
  June 25th, 2008 on 5:12 am

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  DICE Sweden has produced one amazing engine. They already have mastered the gameplay in past games. The new frostbite engine is as good as it gets for FPS. After playing for a couple of hours, it is impossible to play other FPS like COD4. Why bother to climb up to take down the sniper, when you can take down the tower with a RPG. There is no annoying boundaries, every thing can be opened up. When the map is not rigid it is lot more fun to play.

  It is easy for anyone appreciate the video quality. Iam more amazed by the engines audio strength. Every gun, explosion, terrain sounds unique. Even the sound transition of passing vehicles in combat is reproduced impeccably.

  The game is very accessible too. With lot of respawn points, it is easy to get along when you make a mistake.

  I like the witty British/Swedish writing. Story line and the twist is very well handled. This game will be a strong contender for FPS of the year.
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  T. Romano
  June 26th, 2008 on 3:03 pm

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  Battlefield: Bad Company is a fun game to play. Right away I noticed the game has probably the best sounds of combat I have ever heard in a game. From the sounds of weapons firing to the sounds of armored vehicles running, the game is great to listen to. The sounds of mortar shells coming down and exploding around you is just unbelievable. When I walk through forests and fields, I can actually hear the sounds of birds chirping, dogs barking, and cows mooing.

  The graphics in the game are just great too. I love looking at the water in streams and rivers. It looks very real. The forests and villages in this Eastern European setting are really beautiful to look at in this game.

  I like how you can jump in different vehicles to drive around in and there is a car radio in the vehicle to listen to while you are driving around. There are several different radio stations to listen to. I love the music in this game.

  The AI in this game is pretty smart. When enemy soldiers see me, they immediately run and hide behind something. They have try to out flank me and they have tried to sneaked behind me a few times. I love the part where a enemy soldier runs into a building to hide from you and you can use your weapon to blow a good size hole into a building to waste the enemy soldier. It is also so much fun to just take your weapon and shoot down all the trees that enemy soldiers are hiding behind. You can do so much damage to the terrain with your weapons in this game.

  The maps to this game are huge. The maps are ten times bigger than the maps to Call of Duty 4. I love the sandbox settings to this game where you can go any where on the maps.

  I highly recommend getting this game. Battlefield: Bad Company is a fun game to play and the game has a lot of replay value to it.
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  Badfish
  June 26th, 2008 on 9:47 pm

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  I heard this was going to be great, so I got it right away. I’m pleased to report it is as fantastic as people expected. You can destroy everything in your sight! You can drive tanks and jeeps and helicopters, everything. The online mode is smooth and easy compared to MGS4. Makes COD4 seem dumb for not having rumble, destructible environments or vehicles. There’s going to be a lot of action on the Bad Co servers this summer! Get in on it!

  01/01/09: I have to say, I have gotten a bunch of games since this one, and I had a lot before I got this one. I have 11 or 12 games for PS3. Hands down, this is still my favorite game and I highly recommend it at this new low price. This is the BEST game for PS3 and you must have it. Do not hesitate. You couldn’t spend $30 towards your system and get more for the money! I still have not played the actual game portion of this. I play ranked quickmatches and that’s so satisfying I haven’t even tried the story. Also, they added a capture the flag type multiplayer version to it and I haven’t even tried that! The ranked quickmatch is worth the money alone. This game is awesome. Get it!
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  Drew Ross
  June 27th, 2008 on 12:07 am

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  Comparing BBC and COD4 is closer to apples and oranges, but because they are both military shooters, they will be compared constantly. The truth is, they are both great games.

  Here is my take on Battlefield Bad Company:
  
  BBC has a great use of vehicles, they fit the battlefield well, are not too powerful and are fun to operate. The only one that doesn’t work well for most people is the chopper – it takes forever to master.

  All of the classes are fun to use. The sniper in COD4 is frustrating and on some boards is just about impossible to use. BBC makes sniping fun again.

  The single player game is awesome in a completely different way than COD4. It is laugh out loud funny and simply a blast to play, blowing everything in sight up without constantly worrying about how much ammo you have. It is much more fun than realistic.

  BBC Multiplayer places a greater emphasis on teamwork. It may sound silly, but the support role, the dependance upon others for a ride to the fight, and how the roles mesh together make for a much more rewarding experience when it clicks. If however you are thrown in with a bunch of newbies who don’t know how to play in a team, it can be frustrating. Once I was on a team of 12 and I counted 7 snipers on one board. No one was attacking the crates. But as people start to get the feel for it, it gets more and more fun. I actually listen for the support guys to yell, “Here, patch yourself up!” and start looking around for the kit. Also, I have scored very high scores by just playing the support role and fixing vehicles and being a medic. The cool thing is that you can pass out first aid, then raise a heavy machine gun and finish off guys to boot. Awesome stuff.

  Additionally, the battelfield atmosphere is outstanding. The buildings and such are nowhere near as detailed as COD4, but when artillary strikes come down around you and you lose your ability to hear and focus, but find a hole or corner to hide in to ride it out, there is no doubt that combat must be similar to that.

  A couple of real challenges that I wish had been addressed. There is only one multiplayer mode with two sides. Attacker and Defender. There are several maps, but most of them feel very similar. I wish there were some deathmatch modes, or other creative match structures. Rumor has it that they are releasing a new game mode later this summer. So we’ll see.

  Another thing is that while the grenade launchers are awesome to blow holes in things, they are worthless for trying to kill guys. I realize that they couldn’t make the grenade launcher too powerful, but you should be able to take guys out with it. I have occasionally landed one perfectly, but usually it is only good for light vehicles or taking out walls.

  The final problem is that there is no split screen or co-op mode. I love in COD4 to take on my son head to head. Sometimes we even just run around in the maps looking for nooks and crannies to hide in. But in BBC, that isn’t available. Hopefully in the future, co-op mode will just be a given in military shooters.

  This game is a must buy for shooter fans. The single-player game is worth the price, but the multiplayer is where it shines. I love both COD4 and BBC. To only choose one of them would be to rob yourself of the other. If you love military shooters, these two are both great.
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  W. R. Stockstill Jr.
  July 1st, 2008 on 12:05 pm

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  I feel compelled to write a review of this game that I have been playing since the day it came out. I have advanced through the ranks and now am at the next to last level on online play. Its been really fun playing online most of the time. The online game consists of either defending a series of bases with 2 crates of gold bars or attacking those bases. Being a defender or attacker rotates between games. Offline, I have played a couple of hours and I find the dialog pretty funny between the characters.Its nice that once you get killed in the offline game, you are at the same place when you respawn and don’t have to start the whole level over. This game has a lot going for it and its more then an “arcade” game I read somewhere else.

  Pros

  -Great graphics, as good as COD4
  
  -Intense realistic battle
  
  -Easy to connect onlikne and few lag issues although a few times I had to restart the game because it said it could not find any games
  
  -You can choose to respawn at your spawn or with a random member of your 4 man squad
  
  -90% of objects in the game are destructible
  
  -Great weapon choices
  
  -Many vehicle types

  Cons

  -The scoring is easily manipulated since tasks such as healing team mates and fixing vehicles get points. At one point, a top 10 leader board player had only 10 kills. I was ranked several hundred places down and had over 1000 kills.
  
  -You have many weapon choices but can do no customization on them like in Socom.
  
  -The game is more then just an arcade game and actually you need to think about strategy. Unfortunately, you may find many of your team mates aren’t thinking about objectives, the team or the squad. Some examples. 1 One class can heal itself, another can throw health kits. There is no health in the game. If you play as the type of soldier that can give med packs, “X”s flash on your map in the corner for team mates that need health. Some players never give out health and if you play a class of soldier that doesn’t have a way to increase health after taking damage you die much more. 2 Some attacking bases have artillery. Once the attackers destroy the 2 crates in the defenders base one, the attacker’s spawn moves to the defender’s former base and the defenders start to spawn in another base. The artillery covers pretty much all the bases. So, if you are defending, it is wise to get back to the base with artillery since the attacking team is no longer spawning there and use it on the attackers. Many times I have done this only to arrive to see one of my team has just destroyed the artillery. Very frustrating. 3 Another example. Many love to snipe. Great. But if you are on the attacking team, you can’t destroy the objectives by sitting half way across the map and sniping. This is frustrating for a couple of reasons. You have no help at the object and when you get killed and have a choice of respawn, your squad members are nowhere near the objective so you are forced to spawn at your usually far away base.
  
  -Team mate play would not be so much of a problem if the mic system worked. May can’t talk, can’t hear, or both in game. This is probably as much a PS3 issue as with the game because there are other games people have problems with, but this game has been the worse.
  
  -You can’t choose your squad mates or which squad mate to spawn with.
  
  -I have gotten someone on my friends list to join me in a squad the only time I tried. You go to a special screen, use the PSN friends list of type there name and you send them a message through the PSN message system. You stay there until they join the game appear on the squad list. Then you choose the map you prefer and join the game with your friend. What is wrong with this is you can’t join friends already in games. You don’t have a list of games either, like COD4 does not have either.

  Overall a great game that needs the mics fixed, leader board fixed, a better way to play with friends and hopefully players will start to play more strategically as time goes on.
  
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  A. Clemens
  July 25th, 2008 on 9:40 pm

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  I started with Warhawk, went to COD4, and BF:BC has all the hallmarks of the game that I’ll play almost exclusively until Socom, Resistance 2, or COD5 come out and dethrone this truly enjoyable multiplayer. Even then, I think this games unique aspects, if they aren’t replicated elsewhere, will keep me coming back.

  What sets BF:BC apart?
  
  -Vehicles
  
  -Destructible environment
  
  -Great gadgets for each kit/class

  The vehicles are great because you have several heavy tanks, light tanks, humvees, fast buggies, boats, helicopters, artillery, APCs, and even some great mounted weapons (like AA gun, rocket launchers, heavy machine guns). Most vehicles hold several people so you can have a gunner in your tank also as well as passengers. And even the lesser armored vehicles have weapons for passengers. Teamwork can be a really essential part of the game.

  Almost everything is destructible, unlike most games. It is not realistic when you can hit a building with an airstrike (a building with walls that you can easily shoot through), but the building remains unscathed. It means less camping and requires more skill to simply sit and take people out from a hiding place because even though there’s no killcam to show you who killed you, eventually you’ll figure it out.

  That’s where the great gadgets come in. I mean, almost each class has a weapon that can blow up a wall somebody is hiding behind. Maybe a grenade, a rocket launcher, a laser guided missle, or a mortar strike. And even if you don’t want to do that, you can always drive a tank through the building (and as long as you’re not C4ed yourself or hit with a laser guided bomb or a rocket launcher when you’re trying to rip open the wall with your tank).

  Anyone who likes team based military games, this is the game for you. Try the demo on PSN. If you like the demo, the real game is far superior, plus it is only going to get better with the addition of conquest modes. Conquest, like the typical BF series, means that instead of attacking or defending crates of gold, you secure flags (like domination on COD4 but larger maps).

  Unlike COD4, where I won the single player before I went into the multiplayer, BF:BC had such an addictive multiplayer that I got right into it and haven’t even touched the single player (I’m waiting for when my internet is down but I still want to play).

  Even the inexperienced player can have a lot of fun as long as you get on a good team. There are a few problems now that should soon addressed with a patch to add conquest mode, address team balancing (I hate getting stuck losing for several games), and improve the player lobby (to play with friends), and make headsets work better (mine keeps dropping). I still give it 5 of 5 now, but it will be even better soon.

  Also, you can get the Gold version, but you don’t need it because if you play for any extended period of time, you’ll make level 25 and get all the weapons they include with it anyways.
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  john bebop
  September 14th, 2008 on 12:07 am

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  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.
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  singh2005 AKA the Master
  November 18th, 2008 on 7:12 am

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  I have been gaming for almost 2 years now and I consider myself a casual gamer. I was never an FPS fan until this showed up. This game is the first FPS that I actually finished (although on easy). I thoroughly enjoyed this game throughout. The story and characters are very funny. Haggard is hilarious. Graphics are amazing. But the best part is the destroyability of the surroundings. Depending on what gun/weapon you are using… you can take down small vehicles, trees, buildings, water tanks… almost everything you see in this game. You can even use your knife to tear apart wired and wooden fences. It does not sound much fun until you actually do it. In every level, after I was done shooting all the enemies, I’d roam around the village and blow the $hit off of every structure in sight.

  Here are few things I liked:
  
  - Environment destroyability
  
  - Weapons (it has a huge number guns/rifles available, all based on real weapons… I never realized that there were that many)
  
  - Sound (each gun makes a distinct sound, explosions sound very loud and real, vehicle sounds are also very realistic)
  
  - Graphics (one of the best)
  
  - Story, voice acting, dialogues
  
  - Online gameplay (although I did not play much to comment about it, having this option is never bad)

  I do not have any complaints from this game. I thoroughly enjoyed it and I totally recommend this game to anyone. It is worth the money.
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  P. DiStefano
  November 23rd, 2008 on 4:57 pm

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  I consider myself a casual gamer growing up playing Super Nes, Attari, and Genesis. And never thought I would be writing a game review. But I have felt compeled after playing Battlefield Bad Company for PS3 for the past three months. Bad Company is the most fun and addicting game I can remember. The multiplayer is unbelievable and the new 1.20 upgrade has really perfected the games graphics and gameplay. Being able to blow up and change your enviroment is really cool.

  The game is underated. I have owned Call of Duty 4 and Far Cry 2, these games haven’t come close and I have since sold them and have gone back to playing Battlefield Bad Company. I don’t consider COD4 the game of the year.

  I can’t wait for the PS3 sequel. The best thing I can say is if you are looking to buy a holiday gift or a birthday gift this game would be a great for a gamer.
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  Cute Chihuahua
  November 28th, 2008 on 9:53 pm

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  This game is a blast. The graphics are very cool. There are many different weapons that you can use and you can unlock more and more weapons as play and move up through the ranking system. There are guns, rocket launchers, turrets, grenade launchers, air strikes and much much more. Plus there are many different vehicles to use including trucks, tanks, personell carriers, choppers, boats, artillery, etc. One thing that makes this game incredible is your ability to destroy anything in the environment. You can blow holes in walls, roofs and shoot out windows to give a few examples. As an added bonus, the first time that you log in it will download extra maps for free that weren’t included with the game originally. You can play this game offline which is very fun or you can play online with up to 24 players in the same match. You can play with your friends online and chat with them on your headset. They recently dropped the price on this game and I consider this awesome value.