Battlefield: Bad Company

 Xbox 360
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7.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 325 Ratings

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  2. Mixed: 69 out of 325
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  1. M1sfiT
    Sep 3, 2023
    8
    Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaameeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees!bfbc
  2. GameMan2005
    Aug 22, 2023
    9
    My personal favorite Battlefield game. The characters and story make the game what it is.
  3. Chaos733
    Jun 28, 2023
    7
    This game is good I enjoyed but there are just a few flaws that stop it from being higher, for one the levels are way to long making the game drag on even though there are only 7 levels and the controls feel very stiff. however there are some positives mainly the writing which is absolutely hilarious. if you by this game you will enjoy it but there are some downsides.
  4. blimpsgo180
    Mar 27, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Less than one year after Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare changed what a modern military shooter is, Electronic Arts countered with the release of Battlefield: Bad Company. Unfortunately, this title was never released on PC, but the opportunity for a PC upgrade version feels as ripe now as ever. There’s comedy in the game. There’s great dialog between characters **** and Haggard, one brains and one brawn. Credit to EA for the timely release. I had a lot of fun playing this one.

    At the start of the game, you are told you are almost the hands-down most expendable team in the U.S. Army, hence the name, Bad Company. It’s a four-person squad. **** is brainy and good-natured, while Haggard is a strong-minded southerner with a thick accent. The squad is led by Redford, who’s pretty much by the books with procedures. Finally, you get to play as Preston Marlowe, who unfortunately lacks personality. Later in the game, you see him impersonating Redford in a way. There has long been a debate about silent protagonists in games, but boy does this one ever stick out.

    The guns are what you might expect. There’s a pistol, an assault rifle, a bomb thrower of some sort, and a sniper. There is more though. From time to time, you can operate a mortar, and later in the game, you can call for air-strikes. From what I’ve noticed, you can run and gun with the assault rifle, or take down enemies from afar with the sniper. Both these styles of play are acceptable. Unlike future first-person shooters, you must heal yourself, by stabbing yourself with some sort of stim-pack. It looks like Marlowe is taking insulin. The game isn’t hard once you’ve played for about half an hour.

    Bad Company deserves credit for a range of vehicles you can drive. You can drive a tank, but also a Jeep and a motorboat. You can even drive a golf cart on a thoroughly detailed golf course, or pilot a helicopter. These vehicle options aren’t in the sequel. For a game from 2008, it’s an impressive list, though it’s mostly linear rides from one location to the next.

    EA DICE, the developer, clearly sacrificed image-quality for better graphics. It was a dirty trick in the early days of HD games, and it’s much less noticeable in modern games. On your adventure, you constantly stumble upon boxes with bars of gold in them, and it’s Haggard’s idea to drop the association with the U.S. Army and come home rich men. Haggard actually opens fire in a “neutral” country, and when the Army finds out, they are not especially happy. The reason he did so was to claim a suitcase of gold.

    The game is as much a comedy about a rather dysfunctional team as it is a morality play about greed (taking as much gold as possible). I do like the sequel more. It proves that the “Bad Company” actually is a huge asset to the U.S. Military for preventing cyber-terrorism. This is an enjoyable game, but the most regrettable thing is that it does not run on PC, which could have sharpened the graphics that much more. That said, it appears the game made it on Xbox One’s backwards compatibility list, and Microsoft has been known to spruce up old games after enabling the port. It might run at true 1080p, but I might be wrong. There is a multiplayer component, but Bad Company 2 was much, much, much more popular with multiplayer. I had fun with Battlefield: Bad Company.    … Expand
  5. ehtaco
    Dec 4, 2022
    8
    For its time? What a terrific game. Was pleasantly surprised that in 2022 I was still able to find multiple online games during my most recent session.
  6. Zeneko90
    Jul 14, 2022
    8
    Nettes. Spiel es hat echt viel Spaß gemacht. Mehr davon! Nicht zu lang, nicht zu kurz. Genau richtig.
  7. AlFoNZo500
    Jun 21, 2022
    7
    For a game from 2008, it's not that bad. The destruction physics are good and I'd say they stand a chance with standing up with todays standards. Gun play is **** tho. AI is **** got killed through walls by an enemy i cant obviously see. Graphics are muddy as **** Story and character's are what make this game. The on screen chemistry between the 4 characters is really good and can be funnyFor a game from 2008, it's not that bad. The destruction physics are good and I'd say they stand a chance with standing up with todays standards. Gun play is **** tho. AI is **** got killed through walls by an enemy i cant obviously see. Graphics are muddy as **** Story and character's are what make this game. The on screen chemistry between the 4 characters is really good and can be funny at times. I'd say if your bored and got **** all else to play you should give bad company a try.… Expand
  8. Ottalaus_saus
    Feb 3, 2022
    9
    I really like these types of games. Goofy but not a too intense of a story. The game rather focuses on the gameplay. It's really fun to run/drive/fly around the many big sandboxes each mission gives you, and I loved every second of it. Doesn't go for too long either.

    I recommend starting out on hard difficulity if you really want to be challenged and not be too overpowered. Thats what I    I really like these types of games. Goofy but not a too intense of a story. The game rather focuses on the gameplay. It's really fun to run/drive/fly around the many big sandboxes each mission gives you, and I loved every second of it. Doesn't go for too long either.

    I recommend starting out on hard difficulity if you really want to be challenged and not be too overpowered. Thats what I did.

    It's a game that holds up pretty well today, but the graphics are pretty bad, even for a 360 game. Very grey 720p stuff. Also it doesnt seem to be possible to have the run button on anything else than hold, which is annoying with XSX controller. A thumb workout.

    The multiplayer is still active on ranked, not unranked. I just played in a full lobby on a thursday night eastern european time. Bad company 2 is probably better but I recommend checking this one out    … Expand
  9. JJ2FAS4U
    Dec 28, 2021
    7
    Atmosphere: 8
    Enjoyment: 7
    Gameplay: 8
    Graphics: 8
    Music: 6
    Story: 7
    Total: 7.33
  10. nurfedx
    Nov 19, 2021
    10
    One of the best Games of the Series and a true cornerstone to the Battlefield Franchise! Buy!
  11. Max20
    Sep 2, 2021
    8
    Jugabilidad: 9/10
    Historia: 8/10
    Sonido: 10/10
    Contenido: 10/10
    Diversión: 7/10
    Total: 8.8
    Un juego bastante completo y sencillamente un punto abierto a la destrucción y físicas que hasta incluso en un juego actual no tiene
  12. yangfanhong
    Jul 24, 2021
    8
    Very refreshing story telling, it is quite distinctive from normal video game stories.
  13. AltairMorhen
    Jan 19, 2021
    8
    There's a bunch of fun in this game. The history is joyful with comic conversations between the characters and the gameplay is fluid. A fun game overall.
  14. 3t3rnal
    Jan 11, 2021
    7
    Played on Xbox ONE S, Single-player only.

    An interesting game in its time, still remains interesting now. The matching of a semi-realistic world with a rather goofy story-line and characters is not often done, and this is pretty much the only high-profile modern military first person shooter (and Bad Company 2, of course) I can think of that went this route in the X360/PS3 heyday. Some    Played on Xbox ONE S, Single-player only.

    An interesting game in its time, still remains interesting now. The matching of a semi-realistic world with a rather goofy story-line and characters is not often done, and this is pretty much the only high-profile modern military first person shooter (and Bad Company 2, of course) I can think of that went this route in the X360/PS3 heyday. Some attempted to copy it later, often to lesser degree in both scale and success.

    Unfortunately, where the over the top elements of the story are entertaining and "hit the spot" in a sea of bland military bro shooters permeating that particular era, the dialogue between characters is very hit and miss. Well, it's more often miss than hit. The voice acting is rather poor, there are games even older that were much better in this regard, most of them is some poor chump just reading lines without much emotion in it, but it is hard to fault them, because most of the lines are not simple humor, they are simply stupid.

    Fortunately, the rest of the game is pretty solid for the most part. Graphically, it is nothing exceptional, it won't win the best looking game of its year by any margin, but the visuals are good enough technically. The main draw of the game is the destruction model, which is, looking back at it, fairly simplistic, and games like Red Faction and Red Faction 2 did it better ages before B:BC was around, but it deserves credit for being the first foray into more detailed environment destruction in first person shooters in years - pretty much since the mentioned Red Faction games. The half destroyed houses and craters you can make in roads look pretty solid, and do a lot to elevate the visual score of the game, though the amount of explosive barrels in this game is waaaay beyond what it should be.

    Sound design is also pretty solid and weapons have good enough sound, but could do with a bit more punch to it. The clinking of various gear as you run around is a nice detail, and the way sounds change when you are in more enclosed spaces and in more open spaces deserves at least as much praise as the destructible environment, as that is a couple years ahead of its direct competition.

    Music, on the other hand, is a bit generic and falls into the "meeting minimum requirement for this type of game", but technically solid, and the addition of several radio stations you can pick from while driving around in vehicles are a nice bonus, though nothing ground breaking.

    Now onto the game-play - the movement on foot is a tad too slow. It feels like they wanted to encourage using vehicles, but they overdid it a little bit. It is nothing game breaking for the most part, but if you manage to lose your vehicle in some distant corner of the mission map, you will curse the devs all the way to the next mission objective. In regards to vehicle movement, wheeled vehicles are pretty solid, but tracked feel a tad too light at times and as if you were sliding on ice.

    Weapon damage, TTK of enemies, and your HP / TTD seem pretty solid when comparing infantry to infantry, but the guns seem to have pretty random spread when you use them, whereas the enemies seem to hit some insane shots more often than not. Fighting against vehicles is a bit worse and the damage you do to them seems pretty inconsistent, and the damage they do to you as well. This goes for both on foot vs vehicle, and vehicle vs vehicle combat.

    The AI is serviceable, and it is somewhat able to maintain an illusion of coherence in larger groups and such encounters are plentiful enough and generally pretty challenging and fun, but when you thin the enemy ranks a bit or encounter smaller groups, they do some pretty weird stuff. Individual infantrymen are also somewhat prone to get stuck in tighter spaces - in halls, on stairs, walkways, etc. You will also easily notice this with your companions. Fortunately, the game is merciful enough to teleport them to you if you get far enough, so that's something. However, much like previous games, it shows Battlefield in this period is meant for PvP much more so than PvE, which also brings us to the next part.

    This is the game where the transition between large open maps with a couple tasks and goals and pretty free approach to completing them and a tighter, more scripted and linear, campaign akin to CoD began. The objectives are delivered in more linear fashion, one after another, and the game opens sections of the map accordingly, but there are still times where the game opens up larger sections, gives you 3-4 objectives and lets you run rampant. This has both good and bad sides, of course - on one hand, you have more options on how to approach the objectives and how to complete the missions and does give the single-player part of the game at least a bit of replayability, but on the other hand, the game is a bit less detailed, and lacks some of the more spectacular set pieces from later Battlefield games.    … Expand
  15. Stan_Osbourne
    Apr 11, 2020
    9
    Мне на самом деле очень понравилась BATTLEFIELD: BAD COMPANY. Я поиграл в неё только пару месяцев назад, по подписке EA access, и не жалею об этом. Да, в мультиплеер никто не играет уже, зато одиночная компания очень много привнесла в серию. В частности, что расширели арсенал оружие, здание можно уничтожать, и.. появление полноценного сюжета. Сюжетка тут правда очень даже ничего,Мне на самом деле очень понравилась BATTLEFIELD: BAD COMPANY. Я поиграл в неё только пару месяцев назад, по подписке EA access, и не жалею об этом. Да, в мультиплеер никто не играет уже, зато одиночная компания очень много привнесла в серию. В частности, что расширели арсенал оружие, здание можно уничтожать, и.. появление полноценного сюжета. Сюжетка тут правда очень даже ничего, получил массу удовольствия. В транспорте есть радиостанции, миссии длинные , но не утомительные, напарники запоминающиеся. В общем, даже как сингловый консольный шутер, игра стоящая. Рекомендую!… Expand
  16. canceRnya
    Oct 29, 2018
    4
    Ваще ни о чом. Скучная компания, унылый мультиплеер. Хотя разрушэния зданий, пускай и не так сильно, были вполне себе в диковинку, да.
  17. eva3si0n
    Jul 19, 2018
    9
    Perhaps this part of a series one of the most innovative in a series. Here in the first the plot has appeared, and unfortunately all subsequent subject games (except Bad Company 2) were one level lower. Subject company just excellent. Yes the gameplay is already a little obsolete here, after all there have passed 10 years, but everything changes jokes and an absurnost of a situation. OnePerhaps this part of a series one of the most innovative in a series. Here in the first the plot has appeared, and unfortunately all subsequent subject games (except Bad Company 2) were one level lower. Subject company just excellent. Yes the gameplay is already a little obsolete here, after all there have passed 10 years, but everything changes jokes and an absurnost of a situation. One of the best parts of a series, is better in a series likely only Bad Company 2 and Battlefield 3 have turned out.
    P.S. And how ridiculously to watch commercials Battlefield V where say to you that it is new mechanics in a game though they already everything have been realized in Bad Company 10 years ago.    … Expand
  18. AddMeForCoOp
    Jun 24, 2018
    6
    2018 review: Don't buy it for the multiplayer! The singleplayer is the best of the series, absolutely a must-play. For details on that, I will refer you to other reviews for that. For multiplayer I would recommend that you play Battlefield: Bad Company 2 instead. On the one hand: there was no problem finding a multiplayer Gold Rush match in this game. But the game suffers from some2018 review: Don't buy it for the multiplayer! The singleplayer is the best of the series, absolutely a must-play. For details on that, I will refer you to other reviews for that. For multiplayer I would recommend that you play Battlefield: Bad Company 2 instead. On the one hand: there was no problem finding a multiplayer Gold Rush match in this game. But the game suffers from some shortcoming: low view distance (due to fog) on some maps makes the recon class unfavourable. When enemies are spotted the indicator is opaque, making it hard to shoot them at medium / long distance. And worst of all: the low FPS (seems sub-30) makes this game quite annoying to play.… Expand
  19. TheCornflex
    Jan 31, 2018
    7
    The first Battlefield-Game I played. Good Looking and Good Sound. Online-Mode could be improved in my opinion.
  20. iddqd4
    Jan 22, 2018
    6
    Я в это играл, прошел и забыл, моя оценка посредственно.
  21. Termin8ter
    Aug 4, 2017
    8
    it's a good thing that the talented developers at DICE spend 2 years making Bad Company, rather than the 1 year they spent making 2142, because it does show. To my knowledge, this was the first BF game to experiment with a single player campaign, and it didn't do a great job to say the least. Sure, the physics of the awesome new Frostbite engine is utilized well in the campaign, and someit's a good thing that the talented developers at DICE spend 2 years making Bad Company, rather than the 1 year they spent making 2142, because it does show. To my knowledge, this was the first BF game to experiment with a single player campaign, and it didn't do a great job to say the least. Sure, the physics of the awesome new Frostbite engine is utilized well in the campaign, and some of the characters are quite interesting, but the campaign is just bland. It really is. The only reason I would recommend playing the campaign is to get familiar with the gunplay and vehicle controls, and the new physics. However, the multiplayer of Bad Company is where the fun lies. You'll be piloting tanks to destroy buildings where enemies are shacking up, helicopters that need to be taught some manners, or an annoying sniper who's been a hindrance to your team for too long. The multiplayer is an absolute blast if you know how to work and cooperate with your team, and how to pilot and use vehicles effectively. But this takes practice, but it's a hugely enjoyable experience once you get acquainted with the multiplayer components. Don't get Bad Company for the campaign, get it for the multiplayer.… Expand
  22. Broyax
    Apr 13, 2017
    3
    Un humour potache digne d'une série B et un peu moins de scripts qu'un Call of Duty, ce qui ne veut pas dire qu'on en mange pas jusqu'à l'ndigestion parfois ! Un poil plus réaliste aussi mais au détriment de la maniabilité, plus lourde.

    Bad Company malgré son côté plus décalé n'en reste pas moins typique du jeu de guerre couloir (la grandeur de l'environnement n'est pas ou peu    Un humour potache digne d'une série B et un peu moins de scripts qu'un Call of Duty, ce qui ne veut pas dire qu'on en mange pas jusqu'à l'ndigestion parfois ! Un poil plus réaliste aussi mais au détriment de la maniabilité, plus lourde.

    Bad Company malgré son côté plus décalé n'en reste pas moins typique du jeu de guerre couloir (la grandeur de l'environnement n'est pas ou peu exploitée) où l'on fait comme d'habitude le chien-chien à sa mémère : va chercher, rapporte, assis, couché, donne la patte, ferme ta gueule !

    Un bon point pour les décors destructibles -même si ça reste anecdotique- et graphiquement le Frostbite fait du bon boulot. Globalement Bad Company demeure définitivement de fort mauvaise compagnie et on le quitte assez vite et sans regret.    … Expand
  23. gamingisgreat
    Oct 26, 2016
    7
    Battlefield Bad Company is a pretty good military FPS.

    The gameplay is solid,with good gunplay,great destructible environments,and smart AI for your allies and enemies.There is also a cool healing mechanic,where you must switch to your painkiller injections and hold a button to heal.However,this does wear off quickly and becomes an annoyance later on.The checkpoints are quite poorly    Battlefield Bad Company is a pretty good military FPS.

    The gameplay is solid,with good gunplay,great destructible environments,and smart AI for your allies and enemies.There is also a cool healing mechanic,where you must switch to your painkiller injections and hold a button to heal.However,this does wear off quickly and becomes an annoyance later on.The checkpoints are quite poorly spaced out too.

    The graphics are decent,though they look really washed out in places during the campaign.The framerate is solid.

    The sound design is amazing,but the soundtrack is nothing to write home about.

    Overall,Battlefield Bad Company is a solid military shooter that is worth playing to completion.    … Expand
  24. Soldier23
    Jul 13, 2015
    9
    Great game in my opinion. You can blow things up, there are large open maps, and you can have an infinite amount of health injections. Great game, I'd recommend it to everyone.
  25. apoorvpal
    May 23, 2015
    10
    Amazing game for its price! Very good story! Good graphics! Good Vehicles and Weapons too! I found this game amazing for its price. It is based on four US Army guys who go AWOL in Russia to get the gold bars which the Legionnaire, commander of the "Deadliest Army in the World" pays his men with. Then the US Army use them to find out about a neutral country that the four guys invaded for the gold.
  26. youlouz
    Mar 21, 2015
    4
    This game is a little bad, and isn't worth buying unless your a huge battlefield fan. Theses levels are too long as well!

    PROS
    -Humor
    -Combat

    CONS
    -Graphics
    -Story
    -Multiplayer
  27. Dendari
    Sep 21, 2014
    10
    The best Battlefield game for consoles, the best single player campaign in the series, alongside the addition of a new and entertaining game mode called Gold Rush, Bad Company is a must have.
  28. Armotekma
    Jun 26, 2014
    10
    Let's say you created a new battlefield game. Your focus is, as it always was, multiplayer. You've finished making that and put your time into a time-wasting campaign, but somewhere along the line you ruined that plan and made the best singleplayer campaign that any FPS game will ever have. That is Bad Company.
  29. InvestmentX
    Dec 26, 2013
    10
    THIS IS MY SH!T. HOW ARE YOU INSULTING A CLASSIC? YOU SCRUBS CLEARLY KNOW NOTHING ABOUT BATTLEFIELD IF YOU ARE GOING TO WHINE AND BI7CH ABOUT EVERY FLAW THIS GAME POSSESSES. YES THE MULTIPLAYER IS BAD, BUT THE CAMPAIGN IS BETTER THAN EVERY SINGLE COD GAME FROM MW1-BO2 COMBINED
  30. robbena13
    Sep 13, 2013
    10
    battlefield rocks and it is a good game with great graphics but the story wasn't much great as in 2008 there was a game knows call of duty modern warfare which was having great story great action and best characters i know it tried to beat modern warfare but so sad i will give modern warfare 10 and bad company 9
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#30 Best Xbox 360 Game of 2008
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#14 Most Discussed Xbox 360 Game of 2008
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#30 Most Shared Xbox 360 Game of 2008

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Metascore
83

Generally favorable reviews - based on 70 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 61 out of 70
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 70
  3. Negative: 0 out of 70
  1. NTSC-uk
    70
    While not a complete success, Battlefield: Bad Company has many plus points, and provides a limited but fun single-player campaign that, while not wholly original, does have some memorable moments.
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  2. Game Informer
    93
    The extreme polish evident in the final product makes it all worthwhile. Both single- and multiplayer shine - at long last redeeming DICE for the crappy bot-fests offline players had to endure in previous games in the series. [July 2008, p.82]
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  3. Gameplanet
    90
    It may lack the finesse in the single-player that some similar titles have, but it does a great job of making you feel the part as you roll into combat with guns blazing, your squad hooting and bellowing behind you. Add to this the multiplayer which is well rounded and realistic, yet big on the fun, and you have a great experience which could ultimately have you playing for months and months.
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