If you don’t think you can make it through 500 words I’ve summarised at the bottom, it’s definitely appreciated if you read the wall of text explaining my experiences and thoughts on the Bad Company and Modern Warfare franchises.
 
So I’ve been playing Call of Duty for a fair few years and since release I’ve spent 10 days (ish) playing Modern Warfare 2’s multiplayer. Still enjoying it, but a large part of that is down to the people I play with*.
 
I’ve much less experience with Battlefield. Bad Company was the first one I played and I hated it, (although in hindsight I probably should have given it more than 30 minutes,) so I was surprised when I tried Bad Company 2 on my brother’s 360 a few days ago and absolutely loved it, and am now considering purchasing it for my PS3. I was much better than I thought I’d be too, was racking up 3000+ xp per game (I’m sure that’s not very good by some of your standards but was nice for me.) I’ve tried it a few more times over the last few days and it’s still just as enjoyable, although it’s left my a little confused. The first thing I don’t understand is this ‘either/or’ mentality when it comes to online shooters, MW2 and BC2 in particular. Yes they’re both first person shooters, yes they both have a modern setting but as far as I’m concerned that’s about as far as the similarities go. The ‘feel’ of each game is completely unique. I’m yet to play on a map that resembles one from the other, game types are different, I had to bump up my sensitivity to 10 when I started playing BC2. Those are pretty bad examples but I find it hard to explain, they just aren’t the same game, and they should be treated like that rather than this attitude of shunning one game because you play the other.
 
The other thing that I was surprised about was the lack, yes the lack of ‘teamwork’ in BC2. I’d heard a lot about it on these forums, so was looking forward to seeing it in action for myself, but I was left disappointed. I had to keep asking my brother why the dudes sitting behind a wall shooting dudes, a few miles away from the targets had more XP than me when I’d planted 4 bombs. Don’t like that you can only talk to the dudes in your own squad either, although that wasn’t too much of a problem because no one had mics. I’m hoping these are isolated cases, and in all fairness, the only playlist I tried was rush. Don’t get the mic thing though, when I had a 360 everyone and their grandmother had a mic. The lack of killstreaks are a nice change, but it still doesn’t stop that kills over objectives mindset than many players adopt nowadays.
 
So to summarise, what’s with this one or other mindset when it comes to Bad Company and Modern Warfare? Is it just the lack of time to play both? Are you a huge fanboy? Or do you just not like one of the games?  
 
*Shib, btman, Girdz, Samir, Hazik, Steve, Fishy, Laharl, I love you all.