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Electronic Arts (EA) announced that Battlefield: Bad Company is at present in the development stage for the Xbox 360 video game system from Microsoft and PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system.

Developed from the ground-up for next-generation consoles using Digital Illusions’ Frostbite game engine, Battlefield: Bad Company drops gamers behind enemy lines with a squad of renegade soldiers who risk it all on a personal quest for gold and revenge.

Battlefield: Bad Company features a deep, cinematic single-player experience packed with adventure and dark humor, and delivers the series’ trademark sandbox gameplay in a universe where nearly everything is destructible.

“The heart of DICE’s multiplayer games is the frenetic, unpredictable nature of the sandbox experience, where anything could happen at any moment, and that’s what we’re bringing to the core of Battlefield: Bad Company’s single-player campaign,” said Karl Magnus Troedsson, senior producer at DICE .

“In a world that’s 90% destructible, the gameplay possibilities are infinite, the battlefield is always changing, forcing players, teammates and enemies to react accordingly. Gamers will have total freedom to adapt to and tackle challenges in creative Battlefield-style ways,” continued Troedsson.

The game will also feature an entire range of the franchise’s trademark multiplayer options with deep gameplay modes created to take full advantage of the game’s massively destructible environments.

Battlefield: Bad Company has been developed by Sweden-based developer Digital Illusions and is scheduled to ship for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in 2007.