After playing this many more hours, I’m still loving it even with it’s single map and mod.  I wish they’d release another map, after all it’s a beta to pre-orders and not a demo.  With a little over 14 hours in I’m not getting bored however some of the squad teaming is a different story. I don’t get people who will sit a mile away from the base and snipe while we’re getting hammered or just hang back for some reason rather than attacking.  I had a squad doing this through an entire match and unfortunately I had a difficult time getting to the front lines with 4 of them doing, who knows what, back at the entry point.

I don’t mind playing MW2 much like I didn’t mind MW or WaW but for me it doesn’t have the lasting effect that the Battlefield series provides with the map size and a somewhat different experience each round because everyone has different tactics or abilities. MW2 is generally linear in terms of what’s going to happen.

My final note… Anyone not buying this game because they can’t run a free server AND still plays MW2 needs kicked in the groin.

Comparisons:

Global Stats:   BFBC2
Dedicated Servers:  BFBC2
Kicking Hacks:  BFBC2
Map Size:  BFBC2
Vehicles:  BFBC2
Paratroops:  BFBC2
Veteran Privileges for Prior Games in the series:  BFBC2 (when it works)
Individual Stats:  Both
Weapon Unlocks:  Both
Game Modes (Number, not quality): MW2
Unlocks: MW2 (Good and bad, it gets crazy trying to figure out what you want to choose)

Bad Company 2 is in beta for pre-orders and I’m in Nirvana.  Finally an FPS has been released that makes me jump for joy.  I wasn’t sure how badly they’d implement the game in this day and age of console porting but they’ve done an excellent job on the game.  I’m missing the command button to call out enemies, thank yous but I’m hoping that will be there at some point.  It seems they took some of the good things from the Call of Duty series and made them better such as melee.  No quick, 1 random knife shot, I’ve had a few but I’ve also seen where it takes a few swings of the blade to take down the enemy and I know I hit them on the first because of the “ugh” sound.  It’s refreshing rather than the, what sometimes seems like, the 10 feet long knifes from MW2 and even BF2/BF2142.

The familiar accumulative stats, as previous BF games, are there as well.  The current mod they’re demoing is also fun but quite tough as the attacking team if you have no one that can get in to the base.  It’s an attack/defense mod where the attacking team parachutes in and attempts to destroy key objects.  It already seems a bit more polished than BF2/BF2142 in terms of the interface, outside of the EXTREMELY slow server browser and lack of sorting servers by latency or players and the filters resetting after every restart but again, hopefully that will be added as well.  It allows you to immediately join a squad, the ability to spawn on players and as I said, most of the “goodies” from the BF series.

So far I’m loving this game.  It’s the type of FPS game I’ve been waiting for since BF2 began to grow long in the tooth and I’m looking forward to the March release!  I have some video’s and screenshots I’ll get up soon but in the mean time, check out the official trailer at Battlefield.com or watch below!

Cheers!

They’ve opened up slots for the next beta of Battlefield Heroes.  You can head over to the official site and sign up.  The keys will be sent out when they announce the next open beta!  Good luck!