Battlefield: Bad Company
Game » consists of 16 releases. Released Jun 23, 2008
The venerable Battlefield franchise returns for its second console-only outing, this time with a fleshed out single player campaign and a new multiplayer game mode, Gold Rush.
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5 (48) 4 (35) 3 (9) 2 (0) 1 (0) 4.3 starsAverage score of 94 user reviews
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Unleash havoc on the battlefield like never before. 1
In late 2006, Electronic Arts released Battlefield 2142 on the PC to relative success. Two years later, the Battlefield series came to consoles with the release of Battlefield: Bad Company. In Bad Company, you'll be utilizing Dice's new Frostbite engine to destroy your way through a somewhat short single-player and an addicting multiplayer experience. Though Bad Company is quite different from its Battlefield cousins in both story and presentation, minus a few small annoyances, it's a great shoo...
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Wanna blow stuff up? Get Bad Company. 0
If I wanted to make this review short and sweet, I'd probably just say "If you like blowing stuff up and killing a bunch of people while doing it, then Battlefield Bad Company is the game for you." But since I like to add a bit of professionalism to my reviews, I'll delve a bit more into the game and give you a more enlightened point of view on this first-person shooter. Battlefield Bad Company comes from developer EA DICE and publisher Electronic Arts and chronicles the adventures of B-Company...
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Seriously, my final Bad Company commentary. 3
After my scathing review of the demo, and various other reviews I did afterwards, I guess I don’t have any hate left to spare for this game. I enjoy it tons, for some reason. And in case I have not enough reviewed this title… Some things I have not yet covered (shocking, I know). I dig how you can replenish lost grenades and ammo by running over a dead foes supplies (ammo through specific class only); the limited splash damage (which emphasizes precision); distinct classes; and persistent and co...
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Battlefield: Bad Company redefines the playing field 1
This is Battlefield: Bad Company, a game that looks similar to a few other things that you've played, but if you look closer there is a new and unique experience to be discovered. The developer's DICE have put a lot of work and sweat into developing this title. They felt that they had to develop an ambitious title to stand alone from every other Battlefield title they have worked on in the past. In order to do that it was built from the ground up by developing the Frostbite engine. It reshapes...
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You smell very clean 0
I've always felt like the Battlefield franchise was a bit limiting as an online only multiplayer shooter. Sure, its large-scale battles are incredibly fun online, and the basic Battlefield formula holds firm in every iteration of the series that I've played. I guess I'm just greedy, and have always wanted more for my $50-$60. Fortunately, my wish has been granted via Battlefield: Bad Company. Bad Company's online play is about what you'd expect from the franchise, but it throws in a surprisingly...
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Bullets and Bombshells and Bullion, Oh My! 0
Even though Battlefield games have always been more about multiplayer, the single-player campaign in Bad Company is actually better than I expected. It follows the story of Preston Marlowe, a misfit soldier sent to B company, a group of other misfit soldiers that the military has deemed 'expendable'. As the tale progresses you and your team will embark on a mission to steal precious gold bullion from the enemy mercenaries as 'compensation' for the military leaving your unit out to dry. It all...
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Lots of gaping holes in this Battlefield iteration. 0
Having played and enjoyed every Battlefield game to date, the release of bad Company had me excited, but also wondering how long the new setting, weapons and maps would keep me interested. The answer? For quite some time. While the light-hearted presentation of the included campaign and the multiplayer mode's amazing polish would have been enough for DICE to push this title out the door, the new Frostbite engine is what ultimately makes Bad Company a must buy for multiplayer FPS fans. Much l...
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Battlefield Bad Company Review 0
Battlefield Bad Company is an interesting game. I mean its a fun first person shooter and you can have a lot of fun with it, but there are just some huge flaws that just cant be ignored. The first thing you'll notice in this game is taht you can blow stuff up. that never gets old. Its a fun way to enter buildings and a great way to set up enemies. Heres a review of the campaign as well as the MP.CampaignBattlefield was never known for its single player campaign but it all changes with Bad C...
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An average shooter 1
I loved all previous installments of battlefield specifically #2. Yet once I heard they were going to try to cash in by making people pay for weapons already on the disc that gave a bad impression. They eventually decided they would make them free when you reach level 25 or you can buy them with the gold edition. Then I got into the Beta, played one day and did not play it any further because I was totally disappointed to see this game was basically an average shooter with destructible envir...
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Great Shooter 0
There’s no shortage of games with explosions these days. The problem is that they are conveniently placed barrels to kill the enemies. No environmental damage is done except for the occasional black burn mark. Bad Company does explosions right. If an M203 round is shot at a wall you can bet that wall isn’t going to be there post-explosion. The explosions are not just for looks either, they factor into the gameplay. If an enemy is in a house, why wait for him to come out, just blow out the ...
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Lacks Replay Value 0
The game that the Frostbite Engine was developed for couldn't take advantage of the technology any better. The change in strategy from other military shooters is refreshing, but is hard to recommend because it's selling point becomes niche very quickly. Although buildings do blow apart beautifully, and the environments destructibility is constantly present, they don't give you much to blow up. This becomes increasingly apparent when you invade a dictator’s palace to find it's filled with nothin...
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Mediocre at best 0
Sometimes it takes mediocre games to really show how good certain games are, in this case Battlefield:BC illustrates how good CoD4:MW actually is. The gameplay feels clunky and I just don't feel that the bullet traveling time in Battlefield is correct, it seems slow. Think players can take too much of a beating before they die as well.The graphics are not very impressive, they terrain and textures "flicker" a lot on long distances making it hard to see and discern objects at long distances which...
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Battlefield: Bad Company Review 0
You start as Private Preston Marlow who is put into a group of soldiers known as B-Company, which stands for Bad Company. These people have been put in this company for doing various "bad" things in the Army. Your three companions are the Sarge, Haggard, and Sweetwater Throughout this campaign you will laugh from things that Haggard and Sweetwater do and say. During the cut-scenes, them two will play Rock-Paper-Scissors and do other things like play golf with their weapon. This company, despite...
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When things make boom, I make happy. 0
So here it is, Battlefield: Company. A modern first person shooter where you are a soldier in a rag tag, rouge if you will, squad of soldiers practically leaving a trail of destruction in search of mercenary gold. I’ll admit when I first saw the trailer for this thing probably a year ago or so, I was impressed. It showed off something many MANY games lack. What I’m talking about is the so called dynamic destruction made possible by their ‘Frostbite’ Engine, which basically allows the player...
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Controled Destrution 0
Battlefield Bad Company is a great game and a must play but it is not without flaws. It was marketed as a game with total destruction but when the game was put under more scruntiny the developers began to call it tactical destruction. In other words explosions are generic and pre-determined in ways. Say if shot the near the corner of a building it would blow up, and if you shot the corner of another building in a random place it would blow up and would be identical to the the other hole in the o...
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Battlefield: Bad Comapany is a strong shooter 0
Story: The story is strong for a battlefield game, giving you around 10+ hours of play time. You play a soldier called Private Preston Marlowe. You have been sent into war against the Russians with a squad of misfits. You must do various objectives to win the war. You and your squad find a gold bar, which becomes a side mission throught the game, track down and take all gold bars.Gameplay:The gameplays very fun, you can kill russians with a various amount of weapons such as, Sniper rifles, RPG...
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Amazing characters, atmospheric locations and explosions=5/5 0
I've played bad company loads. 2 and a half on the single player and 3 days online, I love it so much.I simply do not understand the hate towards the single player. The characters are original and endearing, really bring life to the story. I admire Dice for making a genuinely funny, non-PC(Politically Correct, not the Microsoft kind) FPS. I don't think I've laughed so much in a shooter since Serious Sam and your comrades will stick with you.Most complaints dig at the lack of variety, but I found...
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So much fun, it hurts. 0
I usually don't get that into online play. In fact, this is the first game I've spent more than 30 minutes playing online. Of course I played through the single player first, and loved it. It did seem a bit brief, but that was probably because any time I wasn't at work, or sleeping, I was playing it. I loved the story, the characters were great, the voice acting was great, and the gameplay was just plain fun. For me as a somewhat casual shooter fan, it was challenging, but not frustrating. Being...
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Blowing stuff up has never been so much fun, or looked so good 0
While my history with the Battlefield series has its ups and downs, my experience with Bad Company has been on the up side of things from the get-go. While many things have changed, it still feels very much like a Battlefield game. Even the single player campaign plays like a multiplayer game - when you die, you don’t have to restart from your last checkpoint, you merely re-spawn and pick up where you left off. It’s sort of odd, but it beats constantly re-doing things. I’m now heavy into the mul...
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The loneliest number is the number...four? 0
I’ll start by saying that this is a very good game and that only a few poor choice is stop it from having the best multiplayer on Xbox Live. The Battlefield series has allowed players to fight in World War 2, Vietnam, the future, and in the present. Bad Company takes place in the present, where a fictional war is going on between the United States and Russia. Unlike past Battlefield games, Bad Company has a Single Player story that doesn’t end up feeling like a series of bot matches strung toge...
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Amazing Game, Two Complaints 0
Battlefield: Bad Company (BF:BC) is a game that almost achieves perfection, but, like always, there are two complaints that holds it back from achieving that perfect game status.My first complaint about BF:BC is the fact that they have a weapon that is impossible to unlock if you did not pre-order thae game. Now, sure they wanted people to pre-order the game, but that's just not fair in terms of gameplay balance.My second complaint is one that is being addressed for free, but I'm still saddened...
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Battlefield: Bad Company - Review by Kim Fidler 1
Back in 2002, a game came out that was totally different than anything I had played before. It was an online only game that had some of the largest maps I had ever seen, and a plethora of vehicles to traverse them. Battlefield 1942 was my first taste of actual online warfare. While I did play Counterstrike, Quake III, and Team Fortress Classic; BF1942 was the first time that I actually felt like I was in a real war. Well, as close as a video game could potentially get you to real war. Over the...
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Battlefield: Bad Company Review EN ESPAÑOL 0
BATTLEFIELD: BAD COMPANY *****Reseña escrita por Jeff Gertsmann, traducción por Darth Stone.La tendencia Pro-Explosiones hace que los componentes solitarios y multijugador de este titulo sean notablemente mejores.Muchos juegos tienen explosiones... Con todos los conflictos y guerras que son representados en una infinidad de títulos en las consolas actuales, casi estaría dispuesto a apostar que hay mas juegos con explosiones que juegos sin ellas. Como resultado, la mayoría de estas destrucciones ...
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Battlefield: Bad Company Review 2
Title: Battlefield: Bad CompanyConsoles: Xbox 360, PS3Genre: FPSStory: This story revolves around a new guy in the army named Preston Marlow that you control. This new guy did something bad while in the army, and instead of getting thrown in jail, is thrust into Bad Company, a group of misfits and rule breakers that do the army's dirty work. The characters have a lot personality, and are funny at some times. Although when you are in a firefight getting shot, I don't think a actual soldier would ...
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Good. Some problems, but good. 0
Battlefield has always been about the multiplayer, and it's absolutely no different in Bad Company. But what Bad Company also has is a single player campaign with a meaningful story. In Bad Company you play as Preston Marlowe, the new guy that is put into a squad of misfits dubbed, not surprisingly, "Bad Company". Series of unfortunate events lead up to you dealing with the an army of mercenaries in the attempt to steal their gold. Most of the story is presented with in-game cut scenes with free...
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bad company: bad a.i. edition 1
i have a complaint about battlefield: bad company. the a.i. all of it. the enemy, your squad, its horrible. the enemy is both terrible and spot on at the same time. its terrible in that you can shot one enemy and another one, not 5 feet away will do nothing. and its spot on when they can find you and shoot you, dead on, no matter where you are. these guys have the best aim anywhere. and they arent very interested in you squad, see as how they can stand in the open while im crouching in some co...
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Rarely has a game had such great explosive action 0
As you're playing through Battlefield: Bad Company, you'll see a lot of stuff blowing up. The game is also pretty damn funny at times, has a very cinematic singleplayer and an addicting multiplayer mode. Read on to find out why this game should belong in any FPS-fan's collection.Sweetwater and Haggard (left and center, respectively) make for some great comic reliefBad Company is similar to Battlefield: Modern Combat, but the developers decided to change up the singleplayer formula a bit this tim...
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Blowing Up Buildings Never Gets Old 0
This game is fairly old at the time of this review (about two years if I am correct) so it is showing a little but of its age, but it still stands as one of the better military shooters on the Xbox 360. This game is the antithesis in many ways of the Modern Warfare approach to the FPS. While the down the rails shooting mechanic is still in place, there are many differences that set it apart. First off the game is much slower paced in terms of the progression of the levels and the overall speed. ...
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Worth It's Weight in Mercenary Gold 0
In Battlefield Bad Company no one is safe, not that tank, not the gunner behind the sandbags, and defiantly not you. Its destructible environment adds a whole other layer of tactics to the game multiplayer, and a new fleshed out single player campaign doesn’t hurt either. With its custom frostbite engine Dice allows the player to blow up most everything in the game. Sniper towers can be reduced into ruble with a well place mortar or tank shell. Is that pretty little house in your way? Just...
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Good engine makes up for mediocre campaign 0
Battlefield: Bad Company takes the proven Battlefield formula firefights on a massive scale and tries to make it into a single player as well as a multiplayer shooter. Touting the Frostbite engine with a mostly destructable world and focus on high quality sound, the engine really shines and the game is technically very impressive with a steady frame rate. The gameplay in the single player campaign falls a bit short however. Explosions are AWESOME!In the single player, you play as Preston Marlo...
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Hey! One second, let me destroy this wall... *boom* 0
The legendary Battlefield series makes its first appearance on the next-gen consoles with Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Packed with humor, explosions, and a huge array of vehicles this is truly a Battlefield game. One of the core gameplay mechanics is the ability to destroy the environment, you can use a grenade launcher on the wall of a house and the wall will blow apart, and cease to exist. It is a lot of fun, and once you play this, games with static environments like Call of Duty will bore y...
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Surpringly good fun single player for a multiplayer franchise 0
This unpretentious game surprised me with how damn good it was. The Battlefield genre is best known for online multiplayer, which doesn’t really excite me, but I came into this game knowing it had a single player story and figured I’d give it a shot. What I found was a game with a surprisingly strong story with well realised, charismatic characters that form the rag tag titular “Bad Company”.The game is hella fun, with a great gameplay element of destructible environments. With all the vehicles,...
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Bad Ass 0
The Battlefield series has always been highly renound for its multiplayer component so how does the series fair when there is a bigger concentration on single player. Battlefield : Bad Company is the game that has taken this leap so does it sink or swim. Bad Company puts you in the shoes of a new recruit in B-Company a group of misfits and trouble makers who are used as cannon fodder when other troups are too pricey to use. Your squad is made up of a hard nose sargent, a mad explosives expert a...
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destroying never felt so good 0
Battlefield bad company is one of those games that caught me off gaurd, see my mind set was that it would be a tipically same game but with different kind of tech that is added. What i didnt expect that the game would break the formual of its traditional games with just the mulitplayer mode but it also brings a colorful single mode story along with it. When the story first started to unfolded itself in the game my first throught that its kind of like the movie three kings but without the politic...
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Battlefield Bad Company Review 0
The Battlefield series is known for its brilliant multiplayer modes and its weak single player experience. The series has gone through many changes from modern warfare to futuristic and now it is at a tricky stage. It could either go for the same formula or change it up and thank goodness they went for the latter.Battlefield: Bad Company has got to be one of the best games out this year. Not only does it deliver on a mildly amusing and a bearable campaign but it include a fantastic multiplayer e...
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Probably the best battlefield game of all time. 0
The good: fantastic visuals - beyond amazing sound - pretty much everything can be destroyed - Has one of the best game modes of multiplayer history - awesome multiplayer - very good campaign - great acting (also funny).The bad: Weapons as usual in BF games dont feel all that powerful - you cant destroy a whole lot in the multiplayer - classes feel unbalanced - no co-op.The battlefield series has been known for its awesome multiplayer and crappy single player bot matches. But that all changes in...
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Battlefield: Bad Company 0
Battlefield: Bad Company I have a problem with war games, i think they try to make themselves to serious. Yes war isnt something to joke about. But i always wanted to see some humor in them, to add a little comic relief. Its something that has always turned me away from war games, ive only played one war game, and never finished it. When i picked up Battlefield: Bad Company, i was hoping it would be what i wanted in a war game, or just a game in general. These are what i like in any game, and...
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Battlefield: Bad Company - Review 0
Bad Company is a first person shooter that is trying to be the leader of the pack but fails pretty badly.Yes the visuals are good and the cinematic's (mostly) look great and one could argue the story is funny, not that I found it funny at all.There are too many problems here for me to recommend. Firstly the actual gameplay is pretty bad. The AI even on the lowest difficulty are ruthless, so bad that you could be 1 mile from an enemy and just see him on the screen and he will spot you and still b...
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Enjoyable Shooter 0
Pros: Controls, Gameplay, Writing, Mulityplayer.Cons: AIThis game is over all an extremely enjoyable game. Clever writing and well timed set-pieces make for an excellent first time single player experience for DICE. The mulityplayer takes the usual battlefield machanics and waters them down abit, but adds another mode to spice it up. The only real short coming of this game is it's AI. Your friendlys are never where you want them to be and couldn't hit the blind side of a barn with a nuclear miss...
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My first Battlefield 0
I have always been Interested in the series, and based on the reviews, I decided to pick this one up. The first thing that I noticed was the sound. The game uses Dolby Digital and uses it extremely well. This should be a reference title for any gaming-centric headphones or surround systems. The graphics are done well as the models of the vehicles and soldiers are extremely detailed. I experienced a little bit of screen tearing in the single player but did not notice it in the multiplayer. The ...
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truck-a-saurus 0
"That chopper is still up there. Like Airwolf. I love that." You can't help but laugh at the inanity of some of the comments that the comic foils Sweetwater and Haggard make throughout. They even make fun of the "Sarge" and his grasp of overused war-movie squad-leader Sergeant clichés. And you, Preston, the "New Guy" are seemingly as inept as the rest of these mopes.Except the four of you, who are supposed to be a bunch of moronic misfits, seem to mow through hundreds of "elite" mercenaries and ...
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BFBC: A review! 0
Let me start off by letting you know that I am a HUGE fan of the Battlefield series, and I absolutely LOVE BF2. Now, I can say something I have wanted to say for a very long time…. They have finally brought the Battlefield goodness to the console market! For those that may have never played any of the BF games before, if you have a 360, now is a good time to try it out. All of the thrilling multiplayer madness is here in Battlefield Bad Company. Oh, and they included a excellent single player ca...
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A fun, and funny, game to play 0
ProsGreat jokes, humorous take on war First battlefield with a good story Great level design Graphics and sound = epic win Online is still very fun ConsCould be many more online modes and maps PresentationCutscenes look great. Menus work well.4/5GraphicsExplosions and desturction look amazing. Character models are fantastic. Textures are nice and detailed.4.5/5GameplayFun as hell to play and blow stuff up. Good weapons and health system that fit the game. Great level design that sticks to the ...
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