Okay... let me offer this opinion. Maybe I'm being a little hard on BF:BC, but I'm very disappointed. I can't believe that I've been waiting over a year to play this abomination! I am going to Gamestop today and cancelling my reserved copy and putting the money toward Unreal Tournament 3 in hopes that some f-tard didn't jack up the formula to that franchise as well.
BF2MC was a great game, not perfect, but fun. Sure it had its share of problems (like the ability to glitch into walls, the poor voice communication system and the good chance that you'll play Backstab and Bridge Too Far a million times in a row without seeing another map), but the problems on BF2MC just had a few minor things that needed to be cleaned up. The whole gameplay formula didn't need to be changed. For example, the vehicles all handled very well, each weapons kit in the game was extremely effective, you could parachute from high elevations to get across the map faster and take vantage points and you had the ability to go prone. It included a fun arcade element along with strategies that required some pretty good improvising (IE. Loading up 3 C4s on a jeep to ghost ride it into a tank that is pounding your team). All DICE had to do was fix a couple of the problems, add a new feature or two and create 15 new maps. I would have bought that package in a second!
BF:BC has done to the Battlefield franchise as Joel Schoemacher had done to the Batman movie franchise. It tweeked the basic gameplay formula (which didn't need to be tweeked) and tried to jam too many things into one game. I like having new features, however do them right. The gameplay in BFBC sucks. The vehicles handle like crap. You are limited in the ability to take the same vantage points as you did in BF2MC, and though there are more guns.... most of them have the exact same statistics (they just look different... its like, "Hey, I'm going to give you 100 cars to choose from, only they are all Hyundai Excels... but they come in different colors... OOOOHHHH!").
The only good thing about BFBC is the destructive environment. Much like communism, it looked great on paper but was poor in execution. So in summary, I can knock down trees and walls while driving a vehicle that handles horribly in a pathetic game. If you want to waste your money on something slightly better, go rent Freddy Got Fingered from Blockbuster. That bomb of a movie isn't half the abortion of a production as Bad Company.
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