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In Cart. Bundle info. Add to Account. Add all DLC to Cart. See All. View Community Hub. Complete challenging assignments to unlock new weapons. Dominate tactical challenges in a huge interactive environment — demolish buildings shielding your enemies, lead an assault from the back of a gun boat, or make a little C4 go a long way. In massive player battles, use all your resources and play to your strengths to carve your own path to victory.

Key features Dynamic battlefields — Interactive environments react to your actions in real-time, so you can trigger a shipwreck or flood the streets for a tactical advantage. Your opponents won't know what hit 'em.

Players can now use dual-scoped weapons, including weapons with different firing modes e. Players now have more survival capabilities, such as countering melee attacks from the front while standing or crouching, shooting with their sidearm while swimming, and diving underwater to avoid enemy detection.

The singleplayer campaign features many elements from past installments, taking place in numerous locations across the world. Levels are now built in sandbox-style environments, allowing players more freedom to complete objectives. Players can now spot enemy targets to notify the AI of Tombstone squad. The singleplayer also features three separate endings based on the player's choice in the final mission. The singleplayer features assignments that require specific actions and unlock weapons for use in multiplayer upon completion.

Collectible Weapons return along with the introduction of Collectible Dog Tags which can be used in multiplayer. Weapon crates are found throughout all levels, allowing players to obtain ammo and switch weapons. While crates hold default weapons, collectible weapons may be used whenever they are acquired and level specific weapons may be used once a specific mission assignment has been completed by obtaining enough points in a level.

The singleplayer campaign is set in the year , six years after the events of the previous game. While the War of has ended, tensions between the United States and Russia are at an all-time high. If successful, China would gain Russia's full support, resulting in all-out war with the United States. The player controls Sgt. Daniel Recker , a member of a United States special operations squad call-signed Tombstone. His squadmates include: squad leader SSgt. William Dunn , second-in-command SSgt.

Kimble 'Irish' Graves , and field medic Sgt. Clayton 'Pac' Pakowski. They are tasked with stopping Chang and preventing another great war. Tombstone was tasked with retrieving vital information in Baku, Azerbaijan. Pursued by Russian Special Forces, the squad engaged in numerous firefights as they proceeded toward the extraction point at the top skyscraper under construction.

The building, after sustaining massive amounts of damage from Russian forces, collapsed as Tombstone reached the extraction point. The event resulted in the helicopter's destruction as well as the amputation of Dunn's leg due to it being trapped under rubble.

Stranded, Tombstone commandeered a civilian vehicle and attempted to escape with an enemy helicopter in pursuit. Recker was then tasked with destroying the chopper with a grenade launcher. While successful, the squad's vehicle went off-road and plunged into the sea. With the vehicle sinking, Dunn, who was not only trapped between seats but also critically wounded, handed Recker his revolver and ordered he shoot out the windshield so the rest of the squad could make their escape.

Much to the dismay of Pac and Irish, Recker reluctantly shoots the window, allowing them to escape but resulting in Dunn's death by drowning. Unfortunately, Captain Garrison's superior, Oracle , reveals that the United States had already known this information and that the purpose of Tombstones mission was to reassure them of it, meaning that Dunn had died for information that they already knew. Fulfilling Dunn's last wish, Recker is made squad leader of Tombstone.

Tombstone manages to extract the three via helicopter and then proceeds to take a tourist boat back to the Valkyrie. Much to their surprise, however, an electromagnetic pulse goes off, frying all electronic equipment in the area, including the boat. Realizing that other refugees are stranded on boats around them, Irish helps to lead them to the Valkyrie. Upon locating the Titan, it is found to be heavily damaged by Chang's Chinese military. Garrison thereby orders Tombstone, along with Kovic as acting squad leader, to scour the wreckage of the Titan for survivors and Intel before it sinks.

The squad recovers a hard drive with data telling of what happened before the Titan was attacked only to be forced to engage with Chinese soldiers that had boarded the ship. Having sustained too much damage, the Titan finally buckles under its own weight and splits in two forcing Tombstone to abandon ship. Having hijacked an assault boat, the squad makes its way back to the Valkyrie only to find it under siege by Chinese forces. Kovic is critically injured as the squad attempts to repel Chinese forces, resulting in Recker being put back in charge of Tombstone before he dies.

Tombstone then clears the bridge and rescues Garrison and Hannah's husband. Garrison debriefs the squad on the incoming assault on the Chinese-controlled Singapore airfield to destroy Chinese air superiority while their air forces are grounded by a storm. Hannah volunteers to join Tombstone, much to Irish's chagrin. They successfully assault the beach and lead an advance towards the airfield, with the help of US Marine tanks, losing most of their forces in the process. While crossing a bridge to the airfield, Recker becomes pinned down by a car blown by the strong winds and tries to break free with the help of Tombstone, to no avail.

A large freighter crashes into the bridge, throwing Tombstone into the sea below. Fortunately, they survive and make their way to the airfield via a sewer.

After Pac fires the signal flare, Tombstone attempts to evacuate the area using an enemy vehicle, but is hit by friendly fire, seemingly killing Pac and rendering Recker and Irish unconscious. Hannah betrays the squad, bringing Chinese soldiers to capture Tombstone. Recker and Irish are interrogated in a prison by Admiral Chang and Bohai over the purpose of their mission in Shanghai.

They are then thrown into prison cells soon after. Recker is later awoken by Dimitri Mayakovsky , a Russian prisoner suffering from radiation poisoning as a result of the nuclear explosion in Paris six years prior.

The two break out of their cell and release the other prisoners, including Irish, starting a mass riot. With the prison guard overrun, the Chinese military arrive and launch an assault. Recker and Irish hold them off long enough for Dima to open the prison gates, only to be caught by Hannah and other soldiers. The group fights their way through the Kunlun Mountains to a cable car, which goes down the mountain.

The tram is shot down by an enemy helicopter, resulting in Dima's death. Forced to continue on foot for two days, Tombstone makes their way down the mountain, forced to hunt for food to survive. They find a jeep and drive to Tashgar, finding it under siege by both Chinese and Russian forces. She states that the mobile anti-air control by the Russians is putting them at a disadvantage. Tombstone volunteers to demolish the Tashgar Dam to flood the area and destroy the Chinese-Russian forces in exchange for a ride back to the Valkyrie.

They are successful in their task and are sent to Suez Canal to await extraction back to the Valkyrie. They are picked up by a C using the Fulton surface-to-air recovery system, and are then paradropped onto the Valkyrie, which is sailing blindly into Admiral Chang's forces. The Chinese soldiers celebrate the news of their leaders return and call off the attack and inform the Russians and convince them to change sides in the war. However, upon hearing this news, Chang barrages the Valkyrie with his warship, hoping to "bury the truth" with it.

With no ordinance to strike back, Recker, Irish and Hannah once again volunteer to manually destroy it with explosives. Driving a boat to the warship's blind spot, the trio set the remote charges and use grappling guns to bring them to safety before detonating the explosives. Unfortunately, the remote detonation fails, requiring manual replacement of the charges.

Hannah volunteers to set a new charge; but Irish stops her, volunteering to do it himself, as China would need her. As soon as the detonator lights green, Recker detonates the charges, destroying Chang's ship but killing whoever planted the explosive. A Marine rescue helicopter then picks up Recker and his remaining teammate, reporting to Garrison that one member could not be found.

During the credits, the player hears a new dialogue between Irish and Hannah, discussing their pasts, and how they have to keep moving forward with "no fucking regrets", implying that the teammate that went down may have survived.

Battlefield 4's multiplayer has one hundred and forty ranks , with each rank holding five sub ranks with roman numerals. There are forty-five ribbons which are unlocked by completing specific actions. Earning one ribbon fifty times awards a medal with forty-five Medals in total in the base game. Service Stars are awarded after earning enough experience progression for that object. There are one hundred and thirty available service stars, each capable of being earned one hundred times.

All classes featured in Battlefield 3 return in Battlefield 4 , although with a few role changes. Carbines , DMRs , shotguns , and sidearms are all-class weapons, usable by all classes. Battlefield 4 features a total of ten maps in the base game, all of which are available on all seven gamemodes in the base game.

Two of them, Obliteration and Defuse , are new additions to the series, putting further emphasis on team-based play. Add to wishlist. You can check out in your preferred language, but please note all correspondence we send you will be in the Origin store's default language for your region.

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Learn more. Demolish the buildings shielding your enemy and lead an assault from the back of a… Read more. Included with and. Terms and Conditions. EA User Agreement. Screenshots and Videos. Plunge Into All-Out War. Multiplayer Thrills Engage in frantic infantry combat in all-new Defuse mode, or make explosive deliveries in Obliteration.

Huge Scope and Scale The scale of Battlefield 4 comes to life in 10 distinct maps that challenge players in all-new ways. Play to Your Strengths Jump into a helicopter and pursue an enemy tank. Vehicle Warfare Dominate land, sea and air with a massive arsenal of vehicles.

Amphibious Assault Battlefield 4 extends the front past the shoreline with the addition of intense and dramatic water-based combat.