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| From: Electronic Arts
Category: Video Games
List Price: £49.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  56 reviews
Sales Rank: 398
Platform: Xbox 360
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Media: Video Game
Operating System: Windows
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5030930061432
ASIN: B00111NY9Q
Release Date: June 27, 2008
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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews:
Damn good fun September 15, 2008
This game is an essential purchase for the xbox 360, single player is good fun although not hard to complete. It has some amazing cut scenes and a bit of humour thrown in. Online is the games strongest feature with destructable buildings and numerous jeeps,tanks and choppers to use in the fight. The only reason I did not give it 5 stars is that it can be a bit annoying with the lag and the fact that it sometimes takes an entire clip from your weapon to kill an enemy because of it. Come on EA, sort it out !!
It's not COD..... September 13, 2008
....But of course not. Did you really expect EA to just copy COD4 and just re-sell it? No, I thought not.
The Game has good points and bad points, which I will endeavour to go through. I have played the full single player campaign, and played multiplayer for about a week. So..
- Destructible Terrain: Awesome. So much fun. Unlike COD, where you have perhaps 1 or 2 ways to take a compound/fortress etc, in this there are hundreds. Need to assault a structure but pinned down? Blow through the wall, and shock the guys inside. Hilarious. It's very useful on single player, where attacks become so much more sandbox, and quite good on multiplayer, where buildings are generally reduced to dust by the end.
- AI, and Multiplayers: The AI on the single player is good. The game was quite challenging but not impossible on normal difficulty, which is excellent, as many games fail at this simple, requisite feature. Multiplayer is much more of a free for all, with little teamwork, but then unless you played with friends, neither was there on other battlefields.
- Graphics: Very nice. Crisp, clear, cutscenes VERY impressive, and scenery nicely rendered.
- Gameplay: I have to say a bit mindless. There are few levels, and it is a very short game but each level seems overly long, with huge distances to cover. Combat is a mix of the boring, where you constantly die, the interesting, staging your own assault pattern (courtesy of destructible terrain, and the mindless, cutting down swathes of enemies with ease, or repetitive. Multiplayer was quite quick to get into with most players being at a similar level, and I was racking up good scores a few matches in, which was nice.
- Battlefield: There are little, small bits where you can feel the old battlefields shining through. As you climb up a hill you remember how it feels the same as Battlefield 2, the way enemies die and drop their kits, its still does feel like Battlefield! It is impressive how EA have managed to change the game dynamic but retain the old flavour.
Unfortunately, that is really not enough. Could have been better, and I must say..... I'm going back to COD. Sorry EA.
 Good but not Call of Duty 4 September 11, 2008
The single player game is a standard affair of moving from place to place on the map and carrying out objectives. When you die the people you have killed stay dead which is strange. The game doesn't take into account trees and bushes as cover so the enemy will spot you and can shoot straight at you which is a little annoying. All in all the single player is a worth while play though.
The multi player should be brilliant however for the past few weeks the servers have been suffering from so much lag the game has been barley playable. EA have admitted to this but it's still not good enough.
The fact you can destroy the scenery really does add alot to it but although they have now added another multi player game play type there are still only 2 different types with no team death match.
All in all I would say check the forums and the bad company website to find out when they have fixed the lag issues before you buy it.
 better than COD4...but not perfect August 29, 2008
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If cod 4 is a light infantry skirmish then bad company is a war. The single player is there for you to get to grips with the controls. Whilst the 1 player is ok the enemy a.i. are too good and there is a funny aspect like in bioshock where when you die you get respawn but the enemies you've killed previously stay dead. But none of that matters because its the online war that proves so fantastic that other little niggles are easilly ignored. 90% of the battlefield is destructable with tanks, mortars, guns,helicopters, grenades, noob tubes, RPG's, exploisives etc. Buildings and scenary fall under the destructive power of your arsenal. all the maps are amazing...with a mix of sniping, mid range mayhem and close range action (insert shot gun blast here). You choose your class of soilder from demolition, support, assault, sniper and speacialist and as you rank up you unlock more weopons and gadgets. This works very well as all weopons even the new ones you gain are well balanced. Theres no being shot in the face a la cod4 by a twit yet again with a RCP90 which just spews out ammo...this is well balanced carnage. It shows the brutality of war. Noobs will die...and die alot. There are issues with what a tank can roll over and what it can't, sometimes you respawn with your squad just to get smoked instantly. Also unlike cod4 the teamwork on battlefield can at times be non existant with most at times not talking over the headphones prefering a rambo esqe method. Theses are small niggles. What bad company does it does well and when your squad does start to bark orders to each other its fantastic. This is war and with the new free download over live which is like capture the flag the only way that cod4 can answer is by supplying some fantastic maps. Cod4 feels old compared to this. See you there!!! Join my squad, I'm rodent 28 (general of the army)I can be found usually with a shottie in my hand.
It's amazing but sometimes ... August 18, 2008
First off, i love Battlefield games, ever since 1942, i loved them. And ever since i heard of this game, i knew it wasnt going to be a let down, and it wasnt. The graphics are brilliant, and the gameplay is incredible, with massive maps for you to explore, it is far better than COD4.
The destructible enviroments are a great touch to the game, allowing you to play how you want to play. If you want to attack the guys in the buliding by storming it and going in guns blazing, you can. If you want to however attack them by blowing a hole in the wall right infront of them and fire off a quick few shots, you can.
The mulitplayer is awesome, the unlock system for weapons is very good online. I played my first match and loved every second. It is a pity that one of the best weapons you can get you can only get by pre-ordering the game, a bit unfortunate for those who are still buying the game now.
The story is imaginative, 4 rogue army dudes, looking for a mercs gold, it's all good. There are around 6 or 7 missions which sometimes get quite long and on the hard difficuilty can take a very long time.
Now for the cons. I cnat think of many apart from 2. One is that your enemies must have incredibly good eyesight or they are incredibly tense, they see you if you are crouching in undergrowth, and you think your totally invisible. It can get quite annoying sometimes. The second mostly happens on the hard difficuilty. When i play, i die a few times (doesnt everyone ?) so when you die and you respawn you are back a few clicks away from where you were, 100% health, with the enemies you had already killed still dead. I dont know whever it's just me, but i feel that it sometimes it just takes the skill out of the game. A 4 year old could complete the story on hard eventually.
Overall it is a brilliant game, full with little extras like you have to find cold crates scattered all across all the maps in single player, and collect all the weapons in the single player mode too. This game is one of the best games i have ever played and it is definately a game i will keep playing :D
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