Battlefield Bad Company
Battlefield - Bad Company is a PlayStation 3 shooter game released in 2008 developed by DICE. It centers on combat encounters, story, case, or mission progress, and aiming and shooting, with controls and information arranged around the DualShock 3 or Sixaxis twin sticks, triggers, and face buttons, with PlayStation Move only where explicitly supported.
- AI score · out of 10
- 7.3 / 10
About this game
Battlefield - Bad Company is a PlayStation 3 shooter game centered on combat encounters, story, case, or mission progress, and aiming and shooting. Missions pace progress through enemy waves, routes, objectives, and weapon opportunities, with progress divided into stages, tasks, matches, or growth milestones that make immediate goals understandable. Its value depends on whether these rules continue to create judgment and room for mastery rather than on length, sales, or series recognition. Short campaigns are judged by repeat-challenge value, while longer ones are judged by variety, pacing, and recovery after failure. Aiming feedback, projectiles, hits, and danger zones need to remain readable, while HD 3D scenes, Blu-ray data streaming, surround audio, and cinematic presentation need to preserve action, state, and text readability together. The genre-specific limitation is that camera turning, aiming methods, dense encounters, and peripheral support can increase control pressure. Platform conditions also include Blu-ray loading, HDD installs, system software, DualShock 3 battery life, Move accessories, resolution and frame rate, and retired online services affect present-day use. This description covers only this platform release and does not import features or conveniences from remasters, emulators, or other console editions.
Collected in series
Battlefield builds military shooters around team objectives, infantry and vehicles sharing a changing battlefield. Finding a useful role, moving with your squad and helping take or hold ground are central pleasures across its historical and modern settings.
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AI review
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Destructible cover and broad firefights invite improvisation beyond corridor shooting.
The first Battlefield: Bad Company combines destructible battlefields with a comic squad hunting for gold. A contemporary console review documents the campaign, while EA's official retirement record changes what can be used today. Destruction sets this shooter apart from many of its contemporaries: explosions alter cover while squad jokes keep the gold-hunting campaign light. That single-player adventure remains a meaningful subject for review, but the original multiplayer battleground is no longer a current feature. EA explicitly lists the PS3 and Xbox 360 service shutdown in 2023, so present-day value must reflect the loss rather than copy launch-era multiplayer praise unchanged. The platform-specific usability judgment concerns PS3. This assessment values the remaining single-player campaign and the work's historical design, not access to official multiplayer. Fans of environmental destruction and squad banter may still enjoy a revisit. Anyone seeking online matches must treat the service shutdown as a decisive present-day limitation.
Strengths
- Tactical environmental destruction
- Characterful offline campaign
Weaknesses
- Official online service closed
- Some repetitive firefights
Who it is for: Console-shooter players interested in the offline campaign.
Play notes: Official PS3 and Xbox 360 online services closed on 8 December 2023.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension The comic gold-hunting campaign remains assessable, but official multiplayer ended in 2023 and reduces today's package. | Reviewed | 7.2 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Destructible cover and broad firefights invite improvisation beyond corridor shooting. | Reviewed | 7.5 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Explosions, open battlefields and squad banter give this military shooter an unusually playful tone. | Reviewed | 7.7 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension EA lists PS3 and Xbox 360 online-service closure; launch-era multiplayer is not treated as currently available. | Reviewed | 6.6 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- DICE
- Publisher
- Electronic Arts
- Release date
- 2008
- Platforms
- PlayStation 3
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Shooter · Primary genre
- Tags
- ShootingFast-pacedSolo-friendlyPlayer versus EnvironmentThird PersonLinear LevelsStory-drivenReplayableWarReal-time Combat3D GraphicsDodge
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- MultiplayerSingle player
- Perspectives
- First person
Release editions
- Xbox 360Worldwide2008
- PlayStation 3Worldwide2008
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