Battlefield: Bad Company
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…
Battlefield: Bad Company is a shooter developed by EA Digital Illusions CE, released 23 June 2008 on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
What Battlefield: Bad Company is
Battlefield: Bad Company is a shooter game developed by EA Digital Illusions CE and released in 2008. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It runs on Frostbite.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game starts as Marlowe is brought from a helicopter to the front lines. Preston meets his new squad-mates and quickly learns from Redford that Bad Company is much less formal than other military units. An artillery barrage wipes out the convoy, along with the squad's truck. This is where the player learns to look, jump, crouch, shoot, fire grenades, and repair vehicles. Mike-One-Juliet, the dispatch officer, sends Bravo-One Charlie (Preston's squad), to wipe out an artillery battery used by the Russians and later to use them to shell the incoming vehicles attacking Juneau convoy. The squad is then sent to clear a Russian-occupied river crossing when the Russians destroy the bridge…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and comedy. It supports multiplayer for up to 24 players online. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Battlefield series
Battlefield: Bad Company is the sixth of 22 entries we hold in the Battlefield series. It arrived 2 years after Battlefield 2142. The next entry was Battlefield 1943 in 2009. Its critic score of 88 is 5 points above the series average of 83. The highest-rated entry is Battlefield 2 at 93.
How it was received
Battlefield: Bad Company holds a critic score of 88 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 23 points above the year average. Players rate it 82, 6 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
What it launched against
Battlefield: Bad Company launched on 23 June 2008, within three weeks of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Persona 4, GRID (2008) and LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Persona 4, GRID (2008), LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Battlefield: Bad Company yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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