Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is the second installment in this spin-off Battlefield series. It has a more serious campaign and a vastly expanded multiplayer system.
They're both great games and even though I haven't played BF since BF2 I prefer (now that the BF series also has a story component) how the story in the Bad Company games are less preachy with the whole "American righteousness" that you got in CoD4 and most likely in MW2. They take the proper and correct road: war is war and there aren't any good guys or bad guys, just people slaughtering each other.
@EvilTwin: Fine, let's change that to "Western Righteousness".
Even still the CoD games suffer from severe POV bias. They all have and I mean it's just in the nature of those games for it to be that way considering they're so story driven with a huge "Saving Private Ryan" vibe to them. Either way I think the CoD games would benefit from throwing the player in the shoes of the enemy.
Just because the first battlefield came out before the first COD dosent mean that later iterations of these games cant imitate each other. Im sure Battlefield Bad Company 2 has taken a few ideas from past COD games, but that isnt a bad thing. COD 4 is a great game that all multiplayer games can take a few ideas from.
Battlefield was originally like wargasm (open-world war simulation with basic vehicle physics - like chopper flying in desert combat or tank tracks shaping with the terrain).
Call of duty 1,2 was really like any other quake-fps game and was limited to quake3 tech3 engine.
Cod4 was cleverly made for cinematics, character animation and gameplay taking success bits from previous games like regen health from halo,
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