Product Description

Throw out the rules of engagement, this is all-out war! Battlefield Bad Company’s non-traditional single player story and sandbox game play with Frostbite’s destructible environments combined with continued innovation in online multi-player delivers a genre-leading package for next-gen console shooter and Battlefield fans. The Gold Edition includes 5 exclusive weapon unlocks (Assault Kit unlock, Recon Kit unlock, Specialist Kit unlock, Demolition Kit unlock, and Support Kit unlock) as well as a DVD with behind the scenes content and multi-player strategy videos.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7107 in Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Released on: 2008-06-23
• ESRB Rating: Teen
• Platform: Xbox 360
• Dimensions: .33 pounds

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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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.	Cinematic single-player experience View Image Genre-defining multiplayer View Image
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.

Customer Reviews

Is the Gold Edition worth it?
I won't go into how the game performs online, in single player, etc. Others have done a fine job of that already. What I know many people want to know is if the Gold Edition is worth buying over the standard edition or not. Well, I'll try to help you decide that for yourself, but in short (and in my opinion - No).

Simply put, all you get are some videos of the multiplayer maps with some tips on how to approach each map. I had hoped for more from these videos, honestly, and I don't really think they offer much insight at all. They seem rushed more than detailed. More than likely, these will be available online somewhere if they aren't already.

You also get immediate access to five additional guns that buyers of the standard edition will need to wait until they've reached rank 25. That's cool, I guess, but not really that great of an incentive.

You also get a small fold out poster...

If you're a collector of special editions, then great - go for it. If you really don't care that much or are swaying between the two, get the regular one - this one really isn't worth the extra cash. In my case, the store I purchased the game from actually had the standard edition on sale while the GE was regular price. So I ended up paying eighteen dollars extra for these five guns, poster, and videos. In my mind, that was a poor choice. For the usual ten dollars more, I'd have been less disappointed, but still not totally satisfied.

Explanation of my star ratings: I have this edition of the game 3 stars simply because I feel the additional content wasn't worth the additional price. I gave the game itself 4 stars overall because, while I'm enjoying it a lot, it doesn't keep me as immersed as Call of Duty 4 did.

This is my new favorite videogame.
To me, there are a lot of factors considered when figuring out the difference between a good game and a great game. Especially when the average price of a game hovers around $60-$70, I want the most play out of my games. Sure, I like graphics and dialog as much as the next guy, but there are intangibles that take a game from everything else out there up to the next level. For me, Bad Company did everything it takes to make a game an instant classic.

First off are the graphics. This game is visually stunning. There's no hokey fake imagery masquerading as a serious backdrop. Everything is lifelike 3D with realistic effects like sun shining through windows and trees swaying in the wind. It's like you're there and living the situation. The game makers took obvious care in this and it really shows.

Secondly, the gameplay itself. There's no fancy controls. Change weapon, reload, fire, special weapons, all easily accessible and not confusing at all. Within five minutes I had the control scheme down and was enjoying myself immensely. Guns fire with recoil like you'd expect in reality and bullets behave the same. You can control remote artillery also, man the gun turrets in a tank, and call in remote air-strikes. The sheer variety of weaponry in this game is amazing in itself, but then you add in the effects of the guns you're using and you have where the game takes itself from fun to classic.

The intangibles are what defines a game to me. The very first time you shoot a rocket at the wall of a house just to watch it disappear you'll be hooked. There's nothing like seeing that chunk of concrete and drywall go flying to bring out the kid in a person. Also, running into a building full-speed in an armored vehicle brings out emotion in me that just cannot be described. It's sheer joy and amazement. This is the most fun I've had playing a game in a very long time. But the fun doesn't end there.

For the purists, you can use the building destroying system to your advantage. There's a technical aspect to the destruction you can use to your advantage also. Blow a chunk out of a building to create a sniping spot to pick off the enemy. Knock out a wall to expose an enemy on a gun turret. Don't feel like running around to a door? Make one. Although you can't destroy everything (building support beams stay in place to avoid a flat battleground), you can destroy damn near everything. And it's all fun to watch explode.

And yet even though catering to anyone who likes the first person war shooter, the game never takes itself as seriously as a game like Call of Duty 4. I'm thankful for this, because it adds a certain comic element that runs with the theme of the game (Enjoy the explosions, don't take yourself too seriously and just have fun!). In this, some game purists might be driven away. For instance, you can never really lose in this game. If you die, your character is respawned close to your dying point. All the bad guys are still dead, but you regain full health and ammo. In one way it puts you back into the action all the sooner, in another it really cheapens the value of a life. The very worst that can happen in this game is failing a "protect the tank(s)" mission and you have to wait through a short load to try again.

That's really the only reason why I gave this a final of four stars instead of five. The "cheapening" of gameplay might drive away someone looking for a serious shooter. Me? I'm happy just to watch a building disintegrate due to all the awesome artillery at my fingertips. Also, the re-playability is huge, mostly because nothing is ever the same twice. There are hundreds of ways to approach each mission and the enemy never reacts the same way twice. I bought the Gold edition and haven't regretted it once.

This Is A Really Fun Game.
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.