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Battlefield: Bad Company (PS3) | 
| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: £49.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  41 reviews
Sales Rank: 677
Platform: Playstation 3
Media: Video Game
Operating System: Playstation 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: DGEO3805961IS
EAN: 5030930061425
ASIN: B00111NY9G
Release Date: June 27, 2008
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Availability: Usually dispatched within 2 to 4 weeks
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Product Description
Set in the near future, the Battlefield: Bad Company single-player campaign drops gamers into a dramatic Eurasian conflict.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 36 more reviews...
 Didn't We Shoot These Guys Already ? November 28, 2008
FPS with likeable characters, a healthy doze of humour and it is great fun to play.
Best Multi-player EVER November 18, 2008
This game is definately for people who thought COD4 was too 1 dimentional. Before the COD fanboys start gettin stroppy what I mean is that this is the first game that gives you almost complete freedom on both single and multi-player. If you like crazy running around in small, confined maps with guns blazing then yes no doubt COD4 is the king of that genre. But if your like me and prefer absolutely huge maps with the emphasis being on tactics and clever use of cover then buy this NOW. The single player is great but I haven't even completed it due to being hooked on the on-line play (the first game that has done this for me). From kneeling in a bush in full camo gear a mile away from the battle and sniping the enemy in the head to pushing through enemy lines to direct a mortar strike onto an unwitting sentries head this game has something for everyone. Even COD4 fans will be able to pick assault weapons and try a bit of up-close and personal combat, however the emphasis is definately on taking strategic decisions and helping your team-mates out to win the battle. Its been called arcadey, but as far as I can tell, this is the most realistic attempt at a warring battlefield ever to be released. Please buy now and play gold rush on harvest day, you won't be dissappointed.
Great game...do what you want! freedom at last. November 14, 2008
When Bad Company 2 comes out 2009/10 I'll be the first in the queue. An excellent game.
Blowing stuff up has never been so much fun November 5, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Pride will get you killed.
Never has a game demonstrated this concept more effectively than Battlefield: Bad Company. Some games are challenging in their difficulty, some are punishing, and some take genuine delight in making you suffer and die for your stupidity. Bad Company belongs firmly in the third category.
Oh yes, I was no stranger to the blurry red screen of death on this outing - something that came as quite a surprise to a man who romped his way through Call of Duty 4 with nary a backward glance. In some sections I died so often that the game ended up feeling sorry for me and actually completed the objective itself, as if my presence was nothing but an unwanted hindrance. Still, I stubbornly refused to reduce the difficulty setting, partly because it felt like conceding defeat, but mainly out of some misplaced faith in my own gaming prowess.
Yes, pride will get you killed.
Plot wise, Bad Company centres around a squad of US Army soldiers caught up in a war in some unspecified Eastern European country. Made up mostly of criminals and other below-par rejects, they are usually hurled straight into the most dangerous of situations to serve as cannon fodder. Along the way they chance upon a cache of gold bullion, and decide to abandon their duty in search of further loot.
I'm sure anyone who watched the movie Three Kings will be fairly familiar with this plot, and yet it's hard not to enjoy the exploits of these morally flexible soldiers and their often hapless efforts to win a life of fortune and happiness for themselves. These aren't upstanding officers with impeccable records, but selfish mercenaries who are only willing to fight for personal gain - in short, they're everything most gamers want to be.
Two of the big draws of Bad Company are the sprawling maps and the fully destructible environments. And despite some reservations, I must admit that both of these elements pretty much live up to the hype. Some maps are so large that they genuinely make you feel like you've got total freedom to roam at will - a stark contrast to COD4's linear and tightly constrained environments. Surprisingly, the graphics don't suffer much as a result - textures are detailed and varied, and some landscape views are impressive enough to evoke a wistful sigh and a single tear rolling gently down my cheek.
The ability to destroy scenery isn't just an amusing gimmick either, but a genuinely useful gameplay mechanic in some situations. Got a couple of troublesome bad guys holding out in a house? No problem - just blast a hole in one of the walls and storm in. Naturally the game provides ample opportunities to use this feature, and sometimes you can't help but feel it's nothing more than the programmers showing off. Still, who cares when you can systematically obliterate an entire oil refinery?
Combat is a slightly more frustrating experience, however. Those fresh from the pinpoint accuracy of Call of Duty 4 (i.e me) had best brace themselves for a shock, because using most weapons in this game is somewhat akin to trying to thread a needle when your hands have been replaced with bowling balls. Firing from the hip is a waste of time, and taking a few moments to aim usually results in you being scythed in half by a burst of machine gun fire. Enemies are able to put a bullet squarely between your eyes from half a mile away, while your indestructible AI buddies are little more than occasionally useful human shields, reluctant to advance without your reassuring presence.
Still, these flaws, while irritating at times, shouldn't detract from the fact that Bad Company is a genuinely enjoyable and imaginative game. It's the kind of game that actually makes you feel like you're part of a realistic world, the kind of game where you can revel in the sheer uninhibited joy of blowing stuff up for that sake of it, the kind of game other first person shooters should aspire to.
Buy it and enjoy it. But remember, pride will get you killed.
Fun but nothing Amazing... November 2, 2008
I bought Battlefield at full price knowing, like every other first person shooter that comes out that it would be no where near as good as Call of Duty 4, but I'm not going to dwell on that. Battlefield is a good enough game for a change and online play is absoultely brilliant. A great feature of this game is the ability to heal yourself. If you have been wounded in battle you press L1 for an injection that adds about 65% back to your health, a second good feature is the ability to fix damaged viechles this comes in handy often, and at the start of the game you have a tutorial on this as well as other key features of the game.
Battlefield is far from the best FPS you will ever play, but it is fun, choices like chopping or shooting down tree's are made very realistic and although it's not something you really buy the game for it's a little extra which adds to the realisticness of the game.
If you are looking for a change in online play then I reccomend this game, but some boring airstrikes and crappy map showing fail to make the full story worth playing.
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