Description
Battlefield: Bad Company is a war-themed first person shooter and the second in the series developed exclusively for the console platforms. The title refers to a a group of the 222nd Army battalion of soldiers considered hard to steer and incompetent troublemakers. As such, they do not receive much respect in battle and squad of four decides to desert to pursue their own goals. The war takes places in fictional countries in the Middle East and the US squad takes on Russians, soldiers of the Middle East coalition and Legionnaire mercenaries. The player controls protagonist Preston Marlowe. His squad members are Terrence Sweetwater, George Gordon Haggard Jr. and the leader Samuel Redford.
Marlowe has a health injector he can use as many times as he desires to restore his health. When dying, he also respawns immediately at the last location. Players can only carry a maximum of four weapons at any given time. There are many vehicles to drive, such as hummers, buggies, boats, tanks, boats and even helicopters to control. The storyline takes the characters through different fictional countries with mission where their background and motivation is gradually revealed.
The new Frostbite DX engine makes it possible to destroy many objects and buildings, almost to completely demolishing them. This changes the way the environment can be used as a cover, as everything can be destroyed. The multiplayer portion features games with a ranking system where items and weapons are gradually unlocked. The base game includes only one mode, Gold Rush, with teams of attackers and defenders.
Through five events such as describing to the newsletter, pre-ordering the game or reaching a certain rank in the demo, players could receive player codes to unlock five new weapons: F2000 assault rifle, USAS-12 semi-automatic shotgun, M60 light machine gun, QBU-88 sniper rifle and the silenced UZI submachine gun.
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The Press Says
| Game Shark |
Jul 09, 2008 |
A- |
91 |
| GameDaily |
Jun 23, 2008 |
9 out of 10 |
90 |
| Game Over Online |
Jul 08, 2008 |
88 out of 100 |
88 |
| Gamernode |
Jun 25, 2008 |
8.5 out of 10 |
85 |
| UnderGroundOnline (UGO) |
Jun, 2008 |
B+ |
83 |
| GameCell UK |
Jul, 2008 |
8 out of 10 |
80 |
| Thunderbolt Games |
Jun 29, 2008 |
8 out of 10 |
80 |
| Kikizo Games |
Aug 14, 2008 |
8 out of 10 |
80 |
| AceGamez |
Jul, 2008 |
8 out of 10 |
80 |
| Jeuxvideo.com |
Jun 27, 2008 |
16 out of 20 |
80 |
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Trivia
To promote the game,
EA Games released a bevy of trailers, but three in particular spoofed three other gaming franchises.
One entitled "Rainbow Sprinkles" was spoofing the
Tom Clancy Rainbow Six series. In it, Sgt. Redford and Preston Marlowe are about to take an enemy stronghold through stealth tactics when Sweetwater and Haggard are heard discussing rainbow sprinkles on donuts. Redford tells them they are on a stealth mission and to breach a door in the distance, but instead of doing it quietly Haggard throws a grenade and then he and Sweetwater walk out into the open, blasting away at anything that moves.
"Bad World" spoofs the
Gears of War Mad World trailer. In it, Sweetwater can be heard singing the song as Haggard runs through a bombed out street, almost in similar fashion to the Mad World trailer. Just before the end of the song, Haggard stops and turns to see Sweetwater telling him repeatedly to shut up and comments that he doesn't understand that last part of the song.
And last "Snake Eyes" spoofs the
Metal Gear series. In it, Sweetwater is seen aiming his weapon at a barrel with the rest of the squad asking him what the problem is. He proceeds to tell them that he saw a man with a eye patch (presumably Solid Snake) in the drum barrel. The squad seems to brush it off just as the barrel moves with the trademark "
!" appearing overhead. At this point Haggard grabs a grenade launcher and fires at the barrel launching the occupant (off camera) through the air. Afterwards Haggard finds an eye patch on the ground.
The Bad World trailer can be seen
here, The Snake Eyes trailer
here and the Rainbow Sprinkles trailer
here.
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