A step back from BF:BC. DICE you should be ashamed! Everything that BF:BC was brilliant for is now gone.
I'll start by saying that the only game that the BF:BC2 should be compared to is the original...period, because it set the true benchmark and was and it still is the perfect 10.
So what went wrong?
Graphics:
Looks worse than BC1. Choppy ugly textures. BC1 excelled in the beautiful almost monochromatic look. In desert almost everything was in a shade of sand and looked magical. The northern europe steppes looked so magical in monochromatic nuances of spring and early summer. But now...pastel horror everywhere, turquoise box containers, leaves...LEAVES...the fall colors are exaggerated trust me it does not look like this even in freakin Minnesota, thank you. And than the ice textures that blatantly end on the water level in geometric linear edge!? I haven't seen this sloppiness since the late 90s!!! Horrendous...and to think those guys are Swedish. The art director should be fired.
On the serious end looks like all the graphic engine power went to the destruction 2.0 on XBOX and that the textures were sacrificed.
Map Design:
Horrendeous! All the clutter and useless props that take away from the palyability? Level design simply does not lend itself to strategic play like it did on BC1
Playability features: Killer view should have been optional. Otherwise I do applaud the new upgrade scheme and some new vehicles.
Summary: I feel cheated. DICE please kill the BC serious as one bastard is enough.