Multiplayer battles in Modern Warfare 2 feel like chaotic arenas with people running all over the place looking out for themselves. More important, the virtual environments in Bad Company 2 are much larger and more diverse than those in Modern Warfare 2.
In both series you play a Western soldier confronting a menace originating from the former Soviet Union.īut Bad Company 2 allows players to use a much broader range of modern military materiel, including tanks, helicopters, Humvees and other vehicles. Each franchise is actually quite similar in its fictional setting. With Bad Company 2, the Battlefield series has now matched or exceeded the Call of Duty series in each of these areas.įirst, modernity. and Activision for the loyalty (and money) of the serious shooter fans who collectively spend millions of hours every day playing these games. But those are the sorts of passions involved in the fight between E.A. O.K., I’m just joking about the threatened ventricle roasting.
I think that phone ringing is Bobby Kotick, chief executive of Activision Blizzard, publisher of the Call of Duty series, calling to tell me that he’s going to eat my heart for breakfast tomorrow while he enjoys his world-class art collection. And when it comes to the latest generation of hard-core first-person combat shooters, I find Bad Company 2, released recently by Electronic Arts for Windows PCs, the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3, more sophisticated, more immersive, a boatload funnier and simply more interesting than Modern Warfare 2. When it comes to these global mass-market products, everyone has a favorite. (Other suitable analogies: Toscanini versus von Karajan, Red Sox versus Yankees, Ginger versus Mary Ann.) Of course they are both great games, but no one can honestly reply, “I don’t care” when asked if you should pull into Burger King or McDonald’s. Unlike many critics, I’m not weaseling out of making a tough call by saying that they are both great games. Other Info: Pioneer BDR-209DBK Blu-Ray/DVD/CD Writer & Logitech Z906 5.1 Speaker system.Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is a better game than Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
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