Battlefield: Bad Company (2008)
Genres:Shooter
Themes:Action, Comedy
Game modes:Single player, Multiplayer
Story: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 of renegade soldiers who decide that sometimes the gratitude of a nation just isn’t enough.
Battlefield: Bad Company is the first game built from the ground up for next-generation consoles using DICE’s bleeding-edge Frostbite game engine, delivering unrivalled graphics, effects and gameplay. Join Bad Company now.Show more
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In my honest opinion this has the best singleplayer of all battlefields ever. Open ended missions that encourages exploration and messing around all while accompanied by a small but fantastic cast of characters. I would love to see this game preserved for those who haven't played this gem. ps multiplayer was fun too.
My favorite in the Battlefield series. So much fun and action! I used to play it back in the day on my old X360 and loved to use the tank to destroy everything around me. The gameplay and the dynamic between the characters is great, which makes me think that I miss FPS games that make me feel like I am on an adventure or on a mission like I felt while playing Bad Company. The most memorable map to me is the golf field. It's such a shame that this game never got an official PC release.
It is a cardinal sin that this was never released to PC while Bad Company 2 did. The campaign upends the traditional military movie with a group of misfits taking down a mercenary company despite the military leaving them for dead. The sound design for the weapons were the best at its time along with the general game design with maps much more open not only in the campaign but multiplayer as well. The characters were a bit stereotypical in their behavior but as a military "movie", it is a nice break from the norm and everyone behind it all did their part well. This game alongside some PlayStation exclusives were why I decided to get a PS3 again. I played it a few years ago with a fresh look since I never played this before Bad Company 2 came out. To this day, it's still great though a few choices were outdated such as pre-selected weapons and attachments that makes you not able to customize your loadout when you could do so in BC2. Unfortunately, I never got into multiplayer since the servers shut down in 2023 but even if I could, nobody would be playing to make a good server. If we can get the full package back here on GOG with (most likely) fan-made servers, I think people will realize that not only was this good, FPS games need to be more like what BC1 was. Today's Battlefield games are trying to lean into being more Call of Duty when no one wants to play CoD lite when regular CoD is right there. If a remaster is not possible, a port will do.
I haven't played it, i couldn't played it back when it released in consoles, so i hope to play it on PC if some day that happens, please make it happen i would be very happy to experience it in modern day
This is the 2nd-best Battlefield of all times, in my opinion, with the best being Battlefield 2. So many unique aspects compared to both earlier and later releases.
I can't remember how many times I've played through its campaign mode, on every difficulty. This is the only Battlefield game with an "sandbox" campaign, where the player is given quite a lot of leeway in how they approach the objectives, relative to the franchise. It's such a waste that no other title in the series offers this approach, considering combined-amrs "sandbox" multiplayer was the root of the series.
Combine the above with the humorous story, small-yet-memorable-and-also-humorous cast of characters really make this the best Battlefield campaign, in my opinion. Even the introduction videos of the characters (or character blogs, as DICE called them) are funny, and further make them memorable. The best thing being all of them made it through the campaign alive, and in normal gameplay, they can't be killed by any means, whether by the player or the enemy.
Final piece of the puzzle is the introduction of (partially-) destructible environment to the franchise, being the first game running on DICE's Frostbite engine. This makes heavy weapons like RPGs/anti-vehicular weapons, as well as artillery and explosives in general, truly deadly, unlike other shooter games, since hiding behind a wall/concrete barrier no longer offers protection against such weapons. The developers also took advantage of this and sometimes built the game around this feature.
The olden games truly are different. This game running well-optimized on modern systems at 1920*1080 is another piece of the puzzle completed. One more game that's effectively lost media now, if nothing changes, since it's only available on either XBox 360 or PlayStation 3. Can only hope the GOG team can deliver the magic and free up the game for us to enjoy.
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