Built from the ground-up for next-generation consoles using Digital Illusions’ Frostbite game engine, Battlefield: Bad Company drops gamers behind enemy lines with a squad of renegade soldiers who risk it all on a personal quest for gold and revenge.
Featuring a deep, cinematic single-player experience loaded with adventure and dark humor, the game delivers the series’ trademark sandbox gameplay in a universe where nearly everything is destructible. Battlefield: Bad Company also features a full suite of the franchise’s trademark multiplayer options with deep gameplay modes designed to take full advantage of the game’s massively destructible environments.
So, what’s so bad about this company? Find out in this Battlefield: Bad Company video review.
Key Battlefield: Bad Company features are:
* Cinematic single-player experience — A deep single-player campaign loaded with dark humor follows a wayward band of ordinary soldiers who risk it all on a quest for revenge and personal gain
* War, your way — Battlefield: Bad Company sandbox environments are fully destructible, meaning structures can be demolished down to its foundation. Gamers can shape the battlefield to match their play style – the possibilities are literally endless.
* Genre-defining multiplayer Gold Rush mode — Support for 24 players online in a world designed to take full advantage of the game’s massively destructible environments featuring expansive maps that’ll keep players on the battlefield hours on end as they either defend their gold or destroy their enemies’ treasures.
* 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.
* Free downloadable content — DICE will deliver the classic and highly-popular Battlefield Conquest Mode post-launch to continue the intense online multiplayer action.
To quote the video review: “Bad Company’s philosophy can basically be summed up by one of its ubiquitous smiley-face grenades — blow stuff up and have fun doing it. No matter what map or mode you choose, every battlefield is highly destructible. Tanks, dirt, bridges, buildings, and even fences and sandbags explode. Even though there are still certain things that can’t be knocked down, you’re highly encouraged to see cover as temporary and discover that the quickest route between two points is as straight as the rocket flies.
Bad Company set out to deliver a successful single-player campaign, and it succeeds. This isn’t a unique feat and it’s not a new high standard, but it’s definitely a first for the series. The game’s multiplayer mode finally brings the PC experience to the consoles and will hold up for quite a while with the promise of downloadable content, but there is definitely a hole left for conquest mode to fill. Even so, this Battlefield is definitely worth returning to.”
Story — 7.7
Design — 8.2
Gameplay — 8.5
Presentation — 8.6
Overall — 8.4