Battlefield: Bad Company Platinum Hits

10 Review to this product

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  T. Romano
  June 25th, 2008 on 6:15 am

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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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  Raul Duke
  July 11th, 2008 on 2:33 am

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  hands down, this is the best FPS this year, the only one i expect to be better is Farcry 2. im a sucker for open-ended sandbox style gameplay, and this one delivers, the levels are HUGE and your options for victory are only limited by your imagination. that enemy tank getting your down? just call in an airstrike. dont have that equipment? find some c4, make a quick pass by the tank, dropping it as you run, and watch the firewors! this game is a total blast, its the most pure fun ive had with a shooter since Bioshock.

  for the first time in a Battlefield game, you actually have a great single player game, the story and characters really are well done, even if your teammates are living cliches. basically your squad of four consists of the lowest outcasts of the army, who are there either there to shorten a jail sentance or shorten their required time served. they fight on the front lines, usually alone, and with some quick wits(and big guns) you can conquer a small army! which brings me to my next point and one of the very few negatives in the game, in many cases online or off, the most important factor is not skill, but who has the biggest guns, not that skill isnt immensely important, because it is. if you dont know the game, the online regulars will tear you apart and spit you back out before you realize your dead. the fantastic single player will get you acquainted fast though.

  as of right now, the online only has one match type, Gold Rush, which plays similar to capture the flag, only on a much larger scale with multilple control points. the classic Conquest mode will be added for free download in the next couple months.

  a big factor is the destructible environments, and it delivers. mostly. i have a few complaints regarding the environmental distruction. if i can destroy nearly any wall, why are floors completely invincible? and if my tank can plow through a wall, why does it get stuck on the most pesky little things?(small rocks, framework, a BATHTUB haha).. nothing game-breaking, but it gets pretty annoying driving vehicles in towns/bases.

  on-foot, fps controls are similar to COD4 with the steady-aim/zoom in on the left trigger. the only major difference is the placement of the duck button, here its RS instead of B. not the the game itself feels AT ALL like COD4, and it isnt trying to in the leased. this game is carrying on the Battlefield tradition, and oh man is it a worthy follow up. i cant stress enough how great this game is, just take my word for it, and buy it now
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  Gorilla
  August 22nd, 2008 on 6:55 am

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  Killer game!

  I almost skipped Battlefield: Bad Company because it doesn’t have co-op play. Thankfully I bought it anyway.

  This game hits everything it aims for.

  Gameplay: Fantastic. Immersive. Fun, even for those who are just watching. Interesting health system – one of your outfitted items is an adrenaline self-injector. You select it, pull the trigger, and watch your character stab himself in the heart. After grunting, your health is replenished to 100%. There’s a 5 or 10 second recharge on this injector, more than enough time to give the enemy a chance to finish killing you, especially on the hard difficulty.

  When this system was introduced, I thought it would get tiring after a while, or make the game too “arcade-y,” but that wasn’t the case. You’ll still die, and the choice the designers made about the health system keeps the combat interactions as realistic as possible without being excruciating. (let’s face it: no one buys a game where they lie in the mud getting eaten by bugs for a week before scrapping the mission and going home…even though I’d wager that’s a more common and “realistic” combat experience than this game offers. If you want realistic combat, join the marines.).

  Level Design and Missions: varied and fun. I tend to hate timed missions, and there’s only a single ONE to be found here. A good assortment of shoot ‘em up, protect your friends, escape, destroy hardware, and defense. There’s even a night mission that requires solo play (without your AI team), and it’s one of the most memorable in the game.

  There was ONE mission that nearly had me stuck. That was due to my own lack of skill in playing – I got stuck (without ammo) on the wrong end of a bridge covered by snipers and .50cal nests. Even so, I eventually got through. You know those annoying games where you get lost during a level? Where you can’t figure out where to go or what you should really be doing? Not here. A helpful (if a bit restrictive) red “artillery range” area is displayed around the path to your objective. If you go into the red area, you have 5 seconds or you’re dead. A bit cheesy, but it keeps the game flowing. Even so, the game’s environments are huge and beautifully detailed.

  AI: I played this game on the “normal” and “hard” difficulties – the AI was intelligent and had a few different strategies. “Hard” is comparable to the Legendary difficulty in Halo. It’s something fun to do while having a few beers with friends, seeing who can last the longest, and over a few hours advancing through a level.

  Your AI teammates don’t die and never run out of Ammo. It helps.

  Weapons: Fun to use, realistic looking and sounding (except for the Steyr AUG…not sure what happened there). The only game I’ve played so far where shooting a rifle actually kind of feels like…shooting a rifle!

  Sound: Without a doubt, the highlight of Battlefield: bad company. This game has incredible sound. Interesting fact: humans are genetically programmed to fear only one thing at birth: violent noises. Well, this game delivers them. Several times during the game, I found myself crouching behind cover longer than I needed to, and just enjoying the sounds of the battle raging around me. From NCO’s shouting orders over the gunfire, to the screams of soldiers getting hit, to the thundering sounds of artillery and heavy armor in the background, to the fantastic sounds of the small-arms fire echoing down a street…it’s amazing.

  The sound is a huge part of why this game is so cool. Good speakers highly recommended.

  Storyline: Enough to keep it going. I can appreciate a good story, but it really isn’t needed (and wouldn’t be all that productive) here. The developers clearly spent their time on what mattered for this game. The storyline is there for those who want some direction/context, but it’s lighthearted and doesn’t take itself too seriously. Perfect for the world you’re playing in, since this game needs a fun story to balance out the “serious” combat. Believe it or not, this actually ADDS replay value to the game. I don’t think I would have gone back for a replay on “hard” if I knew there was a dark, brooding story (a la Rainbow) looming there waiting for me.

  Overall: This is a fun way to waste 15 hours of your life. There’s plenty of replay value to be had, and you never have the feeling that you’re running out of things to do. So many games give you all they’ve got in the first 5 hours, and then make you repeat it over and over for another 5 to get to the end. When you’re playing Bad Company, it always feels like there’s more than one way to get where you’re going, depending on your style of gameplay and the weapons you’re currently holding. It’s never tiring, and thanks to a first rate save system, you can usually finish up within 3 or 4 minutes without losing any progress, if Real Life calls.

  10/10. A must-have for anyone who’s ever enjoyed shooters.

  -Gorilla
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  Paul Ernst
  August 25th, 2008 on 7:07 am

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  A giant smile broadens on my face as I hear that awesome Battlefield theme during the credits. This is going to be pretty cool I think… then…

  Wow.

  That was my first reaction after playing Bad Company for about 20 minutes. Bad Company was exceeding all my expectations for a 360 shooter, as well as a “Battlefield” game.

  The single player experience is OUTSTANDING. Great story, great voice acting more than a few jokes that had me laughing out loud. Graphics were uniformly good, so good that I did not even need to take them into account while playing the game, they just “worked” which is ideal I think.

  I played the heck out of Battlefield: 1942 and Battlefield: 2 on the PC back in the day, and really enjoyed the combined arms/total chaos style of game-play. Teamwork, utilizing those combined arms (Infantry/Tanks/Choppers), was SO fulfilling and fun. Since then, the few games since then (2142 and the Xbox/360 versions) have really disappointing. They just did not have that “Battlefield” feel to them.

  Bad Company’s multi-player is everything I remember and more. The gameplay fits seamlessly on the Xbox 360 and Xbox live works wonderfully better than the PC matchmaking. Everything you could want is there, from unlockable weapons to giant tanks. Awesome.
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  J. Hartzog
  April 29th, 2009 on 9:35 pm

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  I’ve never played this game online, but I can say without hesitation that the single player campaign is one of the funnest I have ever played. The sound effects are top notch (there really aren’t enough good things to be said for this part of the game), the graphics are beautifully rendered (as are the havoc and destruction you’ll create), and the storyline and characters are all humorous and engaging. If you’re interested in arcade-type first person shooters that emphasize thrills over realism then this is absolutely the game for you.
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  Teresa K. Weinmeister
  August 18th, 2009 on 5:55 am

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  the regular campaign game was good but nothing special. the online version however was AWESOME. i recommend this game to everyone that has xbox live to play on.
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  PC Junkie
  August 22nd, 2009 on 11:53 am

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  For the bargain price of Bad Company it is well worth taking a look. Both the single player and especially the multiplayer are very good. I never thought I would find something that would pull me away from Modern Warfare & World & War online but this has done it. It is not better than them, more a different style of warfare which was a very nice surprise. For the price, the play time it will give you will be the best bang for your dollar.
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  B. Kent
  October 23rd, 2009 on 4:11 pm

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  People always say that COD4 is better than BC and there is only one reason they have a point: splitscreen.
  
  BC beats COD4 in basically e/t else.
  
  Pros:
  
  +The sound is the most incredible I have ever heard.
  
  +Dialog- hilarious.
  
  +Graphics (obviously)- the best I’ve ever seen in my life. I mean, the explosions are so awesome.
  
  +Gameplay: the controls are easier than COD4, like you can crouch with the analog stick, and instead of pretending to be real and doing a 7.5 of 10 job, this game just says “Let’s have some explosions” but still mananges to make the game VERY realistic. (People comlpain about the accuracy of the guns, and how the aiming shakes, but when you’re in the army, you cannot possibly hold an M16 perfectly still and choose which eye of the person to hit from 400 yrds away.)Plus, walls actually explode.
  
  +AI: The bad guys know its smarter to hide and stay alive than be a hero and get killed, also showing how realistic it is b/c only terrorists go fr the 2nd option.
  
  +Views: Great landscapes and stufff.
  
  +Vehicles: Fun to drive. Before this, I had never ridden a golf cart while being chased by a tank.
  
  +Weapons: A LOT of them.
  
  Cons:
  
  -NO SPLITSCREEN. the only thing that brings my 6 of 5 to a 5 of 5.
  
  -they should add controls for swimming. (not really a con, just an idea.)
  
  -the AI spot you sometines WAY too easily and sometimes don’t spot you at all.
  
  -another non-con, the driving doesn’t let you go very fast or drift or anything.
  
  END NOTICE: For all of you who have any cons with this game I think BC2 is scheduled to release in early ’10. Personally, I’ll wait till NEXT winter and grab BC2 for cheap.
  
  P.S. this review is only singleplayer. I lost live like 5 months ago and spent all that time on halo 3.
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  James Hall
  February 16th, 2010 on 7:28 pm

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  I quickly got dragged into the singleplayer storyline. A lot less linear gameplay than CoD titles. It has you scouring maps for hidden gems, plotting out different routes through each mission. Great variance in types of gameplay, from house-to-house fighting in cities to sniping and tank battles. Really looking forward to the sequel.
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  DAVID Rehn
  March 12th, 2010 on 6:32 am

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  This game is awesome!!! If you have a 360, then this game is a must have! This is a great multiplayer game, although, it does have a campaign that is also fun. It has a lot of humor in it. It does have a lot of swearing in it though, not that I mind. So, if you like FPS (First person shooter) games, then you HAVE TO GET THIS GAME! By the way, it has the best graphics in any game I have ever seen in my life! You can blow up buildings to!

  Pros:Great graphics
  
  Great multiplayer
  
  Good single player campaign
  
  Storyline is great
  
  ROFL humor!
  
  Destructible enviroment

  Cons:No split-screen gameplay
  
  I can’t think of anything else!

  Happy shootin!