- 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.
Product Description
Battlefield: Bad Company PS3Amazon.com
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… More >>
I’ve read a lot of reviews here at Amazon about Battlefield: Bad Company and I’m surprised at how many positive reviews this game has.
I purchased BFBC in July, 2008 after playing the excellent demo on the Playstation Network. I’ve had over 6 months to play the game and in that time serious issues have not been addressed by the developer – DICE Studios or Electronic Arts, the publisher of the game.
The Battlefield series has always been first and foremost an online shooter. BFBC is different in 2 ways. First, it adds a single player campaign and second it features destructible environments. The single player campaign is adequate though somewhat of a distraction from the “meat” of the game which is clearly the online portion.
The single player campaign puts you in the boots of a U.S. Army soldier assigned to the proverbial “B-squad”. Your squad consists of delinquents, has-beens and all-around rejects from the rest of the Army. You’ll have various objectives to accomplish in the war-zone you’re in before being allowed to go home. The story although not compelling is entertaining and the AI characters are actually funny in parts. All in all I used the single player campaign as practice before jumping online.
And online is where the game has major problems. First and foremost a game like BFBC is all about squad communication and tactics. Inexplicably the game features very, very poor voice chat support. You are limited to only speaking with members of your immediate squad (4 players total). You have no way of communicating with other members of different squads, even on the same team. Coordinating attacks or defense is severely limited because of it. Also, even through various game updates the voice chat is hopelessly broken. Some rounds you might actually get lucky and have the voice chat work only to discover it won’t in the next.
As if that weren’t bad enough BFBC does not run stably or reliably online. Lag is so severe that the game sporadically freezes for 2-5 seconds at a time. Try playing a shooter with lag this severe and you’ll quickly realize that it’s a futile effort.
Other problems including a complete lack of online game modes also hamper the game. Initially BFBC only included one game mode – Gold Rush. It’s essentially a spin on traditional sabotage games. You are either a ‘defender’ or ‘attacker’ and must either destroy or defend crates of gold. A few months after release, BFBC was updated with a new game mode called ‘Conquest’. In Conquest mode, the aim is to reduce the opposing team’s tickets to zero. Killing an enemy soldier depletes one ticket per kill, while capturing control points on the map causes enemy tickets to count down.
Beyond those problems I am also disappointed in the level variety in BFBC. Some levels truly shine and feature enough variety in vehicles and terrain to cater to all types of combat. Other levels are claustrophobic, poorly planned, feature no vehicles and are layered in annoying fog. The feeling I get playing the latter is that the developer quickly padded the game with extra maps sacrificing quality for quantity.
I should point out that I tried resolving the various lag and voice-chat issues through EA’s technical support. Unfortunately for me it seems that it’s the game itself that is at fault as no one from EA was able to offer any viable solution. I’ll also add that I use a broadband 6mb/sec. connection from Comcast. I play several other games online with no problems on the same PS3. It seems like the issues are entirely contained within the game itself.
Overall I am of course disappointed with the game. What should have been the blockbuster title of the summer fizzled out as many players experiencing the same problems I described above have left for better games. The support from EA and DICE to BFBC has been almost non-existent leaving many gamers with an almost unplayable game. I strongly encourage anyone to rent this game before purchasing it!
Rating: 2 / 5
Failed multiplay with absurdly large battlefield.You spend 90% of the game simply sprinting to meet enemy and often your simply picked off by unseen bullets during this sprint only to sprint again..Horrible ! Maybe some like it when you actually get into battle ( it is pretty good when you finally get into it) but no one can deny that the game is largely spent runnning and running and after that more runnning to the battle !!
Rating: 3 / 5
single player boring.
online is fun but not as good as COD. harder to master, takes a long time to get in top 3. limited games, CT Flag and gold. buy for only only.
Rating: 3 / 5
How does a company get away with selling something that doesn’t work?
I just accepted the forced PS3 2.7 Update. And this lame game still freezes up after only 4 rounds. It doesn’t allow you to choose maps, only to suggest a preference, so it can better disappoint you. When your in the tank, if you get killed, it says Suicide and deducts 10 points from you. You get stuck loading maps where the game is over before you are even loaded. Then it cycles you into the next map after yours is done and you have to shut down the game and reload it to be able to try and get the map you want. Then the TeamKillers. 4th grade retards that think it’s fun to walk up behind their own teammates and slit their throat. They rack up the highest negative score by killing their own team for -10 to -15 per kill, and you can’t kick them. This Game Sucks, it should be great, but this greedy design team doesn’t bother to fix the issues that are wrong with it, they just move on to another version to screw you out of your cash again. I got took for $70 for the Gold Version the day it came out. The creators of this game should be strapped to the front of a tank and used for a bumpers in a real war. The PC game was excellent, this should be labeled Broken Unplayable Battle. Greedy Cheating Thieves.
Rating: 2 / 5
I read many reviews on various websites talking about the ability to destroy anything in the game and drive any vehicle. It simply isn’t true. You can blow holes in most walls, but you can’t bring a building down. Not only that, there are vehicles you just can’t drive. It’s a competent FPS, but there’s nothing about it that makes it better than CoD. They make it sound like there’s a new improved wheel, but I found out it’s still round and it rolls just the same. Unless you are bored with the 5 million CoD titles out there, save your money during a time with these tough economic conditions.
Rating: 3 / 5