Battlefield: Bad Company

Battlefield: Bad Company Description

Heading out to the battlefield, it seems like common sense that there are certain people you'd want at your side, and others you wouldn't. You'd think folk with the title 'Bad Company' would fall into the latter. Electronic Arts and DICE don't care. They're chucking you in with some Baaaaadddd Company. In Bad Company, the latest in EA's Battlefield series, players take up the gun of Preston Marlowe, a rookie in the 222nd Army battalion. As you might have guessed from the title, he knocks around with a crew of misfits, and these misfits aren't quite so interested in fighting the enemies of democracy as they are in finding a tasty payday. More specifically: gold. So, off you trot behind enemy lines in search of the shiny stuff. What sets Bad Company apart from the rest of the crop of military shooters is the sheer destructability of everything. Walls and doors are no longer the barriers that they once were, and that's going to change the way that you play. Hiding behind a wall and taking pot shots at a tank isn't going to get you too far, because a couple of shots and it'll be gone. In fact, a whopping 90% of the game world is destructible. The game comes with a robust multi-player offering, with 24 players able to pile in and make the mortar fly. It wouldn't really provide much company at all without multi-player, after all. Let's face it, if you're going to fall in with a bad crowd, it might as well be a bad crowd with top-end military hardware.

Cinematic single-player experience - A deep campaign loaded with dark humour 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 90 percent destructible, meaning 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.,

Genre-defining multiplayer - Support for 24 players online in a world designed to take full advantage of the game's massively destructible environments

True "Through the gun" experience - DICE's attention to detail is applied to the act of firing a weapon. Dozens of subtle changes to the FPS formula add up to a vastly improved shooting experience.