Battlefield: Bad Company

Battlefield: Bad Company is a video game that consists of 13 releases

Bad Company's pro-explosion agenda makes its solo and multiplayer components markedly better than they would be otherwise.

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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.

Overview

Bad Company
In the latest installment of the Battlefield franchise, you play as Preston Marlowe, who joins 222nd army battalion, B-Company (AKA Bad Company). B-Company is a rag-tag group of soldiers that the army uses as cannon fodder where Delta or Rangers are too expensive to send in. Soldiers are put into B-Company for a variety of reasons, insubordination, hell raising, and trouble making to name a few.  The other current members of B-Company are Sergeant Samuel D Redford (squad leader), Private Terrence Sweetwater (technical and communications specialist), and Private George Gordon Haggard Jr. (explosives "expert").  During the course of the game, B-Company comes across a band of mercenaries who get paid in gold bars. Deciding the gratitude of a nation isn’t going to get them that place in the sun they always wanted, B-Company goes on a gold hunt, behind enemy lines.

Singleplayer

The singleplayer missions are about an hour or two in length each, and consist of following the trail of gold to a rumored cargo ship that the mercenaries' leader (The Legionnaire) stores his gold on. The gold hunt takes place during a war, so the mercenaries aren’t the only people you need to fight off to reach the prize. What starts with a war against the Russians, ends up crossing over into the fictional country of Serdaristan. Within Serdaristan, The Legionnaire and his mercenaries have taken over control from the President, Zavomir Serdar, changing the country's stance toward US forces from neutral to hostile. Found throughout
the single player campaign are gold crates that can be collected for Xbox 360 achievement points. There are also achievements for collecting every tool and weapon in the game.

Multiplayer Details


Game Modes


Gold Rush - The primary game mode in Bad Company multiplayer, Gold Rush consists of two teams, attackers and defenders, who fight it out over gold crates scattered across the map. At any point in the match, the defenders are tasked with defending two gold crates, while the attackers are tasked with destroying said crates. When a pair of gold crates has been destroyed by the attacking team, the defenders must fall back to their next outpost and defend the pair of gold crates at that location until they too are destroyed, at which point the cycle repeats. The attacking team wins by destroying all of the defender's gold crates, while the defenders can achieve victory by causing the attackers to run out of respawn tickets before they've taken the final crate. This game mode creates a sort of concentrated frontline that previous Battlefield games have lacked.

Conquest - Conquest, the staple game mode that the Battlefield franchise is built upon, consists of two teams constantly contesting various control points scattered across a map. Both teams begin the match with an equal number of "tickets," and the first team to reach zero tickets loses the round. There are two ways to lose tickets: The first way to lose tickets is for one team to hold fewer control points than their opponent. The more lopsided the balance, the quicker the tickets will bleed. The second way that a team loses tickets is through respawning, as every respawn costs the team one ticket. The Conquest game mode was released on August 7, 2008.


Classes


Assault - The backbone of any team, the Assault class is designed to be a lethal mid- to close-range fighter. The default Assault class is assigned an automatic assault rifle, underslung grenade launcher, and frag grenades. The Assault class can also unlock a rechargeable auto-injector to instantly restore full health.

Unlocks - M16A2, XM8, AN94 Abakan, FN F2000 (Find-All-Five), Auto-Injector
Medic!

Support - The heavy-hitter out on the battlefield, the support class is charged with both killing the enemy and aiding the friendly. The default Support class includes a light machine gun,  an impact wrench to keep friendly vehicles in working order, and a healthpack that can be used to heal both yourself and your team mates. The Support class can later unlock the ability to call in a mortar strike on enemy positions.

Unlocks - XM8 LMG, MG36, MG3, M60 LMG (Find-All-Five), Mortar Strike

Demolition -
The main duty of the Demolition class on the battlefield is to keep enemy vehicles out of action. The default Demolition class includes a shotgun to make quick work of close enemies, frag grenades, and a rocket launcher for dealing with vehicles. The Demolition class can also unlock anti-tank mines.


Unlocks - Franchi SPAS-12, NeoStead 2000, Franchi SPAS-15, USAS-12 (Find-All-Five), Anti-Tank Mines

Specialist - Quick and silent, the Specialist class can make quick work of enemies at close range. However with the tracer gun and C4, the Specialist also becomes an intimidating enemy to any vehicle. The default Specialist class includes a silenced, bullet-spitting SMG, a tracer-dart gun, and frag grenades. The Specialist can later unlock C4 explosives, handy for dealing with tanks or gold crates.


Unlocks - HK UMP, PP-2000, XM8C, IMI UZI (Find-All-Five), C4

Recon - Delivering death from long range, the Recon class can play a crucial role in any team's victory. The default Recon class includes a powerful sniper rifle, a sidearm, and deployable motion sensors. In addition, the Recon class can later become a formidable anti-vehicle class with the laser-designator unlock.


Unlocks - SVU, Barret M95, VSS Vintores, QBU-88 (Find-All-Five), Laser-Designator


Pay for Guns?

Bad Company was the subject of some online controversy, as a closed multiplayer beta revealed plans to sell additional weapons to players, potentially giving players who spend more money an edge in battle. After a loud online protest, including a boycott led by the game website sarcasticgamer.com, the developer altered its weapon plans letting people who bought the gold edition of the game have the weapons from rank 1, where people who bought the normal version of the game would have to rank up to 25. EA is also running a promotion called Find-All-Five that lets players unlock a different set of five guns for a variety of different tasks:  Signing up for the Battlefield newsletter,
registering another Battlefield game, checking your stats through the Bad Company website, reaching rank 5 in the demo, and pre-ordering the game.


On the 13th of September 2008, EA released unlock codes for three of the weapons that can be entered into the unlock section of the main menu. 
  • Recon Kit - QBU88 - your3mynextt4rget
  • Spec Ops Kit - UZI - cov3r1ngthecorn3r
  • Support Kit - M60 - try4ndrunf0rcov3r

The remaining 2 weapons can be unlocked by checking your stats on the Bad company website or by joining the EA Battlefield Veteranswebsite.


Frostbite Engine

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DICE has developed a new engine for Bad Company, known as Frostbite, which is said to allow 90 percent of the environment to be destroyed. Do you know the enemy is behind that hotel but you just can't see him? Why go around when you can just shoot through the hotel? That pesky sniper taking out your team from atop that bell tower? Blow up the bell tower! Battlefield: Bad Company is the first game released to use this new engine.


Sequel Announced


EA has confirmed the existence of Bad Company 2, but has not confirmed if DICE will be the developer or when it will come out.

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Original US Release June 23, 2008
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OFLC: M
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