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Gameguru Mania News - Apr,09 2010 -

New York Times: BC2 is a better game than MW2 - briefly
(hx) 12:32 AM CEST - Apr,09 2010 - Post a comment / read (8)
The New York Times claims that Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is better game than Modern Warfare 2. Do you agree? With Bad Company 2, the Battlefield series has now matched or exceeded the Call of Duty series in each of these areas.

First, modernity. Each franchise is actually quite similar in its fictional setting. In both series you play a Western soldier confronting a menace originating from the former Soviet Union.

But Bad Company 2 allows players to use a much broader range of modern military materiel, including tanks, helicopters, Humvees and other vehicles. More important, the virtual environments in Bad Company 2 are much larger and more diverse than those in Modern Warfare 2. Multiplayer battles in Modern Warfare 2 feel like chaotic arenas with people running all over the place looking out for themselves. In Bad Company 2, teamwork and voice communication are essential; the combat environments are more interesting and feel more akin to what I imagine a modern war zone to be.

Yet the biggest leap in Bad Company 2 is in its single-player campaign. It is only six or eight hours long â€” comparable in length to the main story in Modern Warfare 2 â€” and while it is not propelled by scripted set pieces as cinematic as those in the competition, Bad Company 2â€™s narrative glistens. The characters in Bad Company 2 â€” the redneck, the hippie pilot, the geek, the weathered sergeant â€” are profane, quirky and usually hilarious. By contrast, the characters in Modern Warfare 2 are somber, even dour. War is obviously serious business, but the characters in Bad Company 2 seem to be having a lot more fun.

And third, DICE has now fine-tuned the persistent role-playing components of the online game, by giving players a panoply of ways to advance their characters and garner recognition from other users around the world.

One final technical note for consumers: Bad Company 2 is a game that needs to be played on a powerful PC, rather than a console, in order to be fully appreciated. I played mostly on a big rig from AMD, the chip maker, that was able to produce some of the most beautiful graphics I have seen in a shooter. Perhaps more important, the AMD machine came with an ATI Radeon HD 5870 video card that is able to support three monitors at once.

last 10 comments:

th4t1guy	(02:15 AM CEST - Apr,09 2010 )
Obvious troll article is obvious.

Koogle	(02:59 AM CEST - Apr,09 2010 )
"Perhaps more important, the AMD machine came with an ATI Radeon HD 5870 video card that is able to support three monitors at once. " lol I think there should be a special place in hell for NY time writers (and other brainless mainstream sources) tbh, that place is filled with manipulative and deceptive scumbag drones. I say that not just because of this article though.

miglaugh	(05:43 AM CEST - Apr,09 2010 )
although I like BC2 multi better than MW2, the BC2 singleplayer campaign is total crap. I'm not even going to bother finishing it.

beqerel	(07:38 AM CEST - Apr,09 2010 )
BC2 is better many times than MW2 , to many cheats in mw2

eudolus

(11:45 AM CEST - Apr,09 2010 )

the only real problem i have with bc2 other than the fucking net lag, is the horrendous mouse/input lag and inconsistency. i wont settle with some devs saying "oh it provides the best balance with what real soldiers actually feel" then put a delay in the character animation not the fucking targeting system, dont put limitations on the actual controls of the players but on the players character.

if the cod series (lalala mw2 is nonexistent in my universe lalala) did anything right, it was the control scheme, the same with counter strike and unreal tournament i want fluid control that separates the player from the character, i dont want to be tied down to the limitations of the ingame characters animations but limited by MY OWN ABILITIES, is that so difficult to understand?

ykazka	(04:46 PM CEST - Apr,09 2010 )
I bought both MW2 and BC2. I stopped playing MW2. I am still playing BC2. I like BC2 better. I think both companies did a good job, but for some reason MW2 feels like it was made for 6 yearolds.

Renton

(05:02 PM CEST - Apr,09 2010 )

eudolus> the only real problem i have with bc2 other than the fucking net lag, is the horrendous mouse/input lag and inconsistency. i wont settle with some devs saying "oh it provides the best balance with what real soldiers actually feel" then put a delay in the character animation not the fucking targeting system, dont put limitations on the actual controls of the players but on the players character.

if the cod series (lalala mw2 is nonexistent in my universe lalala) did anything right, it was the control scheme, the same with counter strike and unreal tournament i want fluid control that separates the player from the character, i dont want to be tied down to the limitations of the ingame characters animations but limited by MY OWN ABILITIES, is that so difficult to understand?

It's like you were reading my mind.

ykazka> I bought both MW2 and BC2. I stopped playing MW2. I am still playing BC2. I like BC2 better. I think both companies did a good job, but for some reason MW2 feels like it was made for 6 yearolds.

I have the two of them and I feel exactly the opposite. Sadly, MW2 have that retarded IWnet Matchmaking system.

Tom	(02:42 AM CEST - Apr,10 2010 )
I agree with eudolus

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