EA Euro boss: Bad Company 2 is 'first strong attack' on Call of Duty

Them be fightin words, partner.

Really I am sure BFBC2 will be a great game, just as MW2 is great. Two games you can really enjoy. Now about those servers....

Good on them, Call of Duty is a good, solid series but due to a lack of solid and well marketed competition it's become stagnant. MW2 was a bit of a dissapointment.

I would really like Halo 4:

Master Chief lands on an alien home planet
and proceeds to whoop ass and take names
the way only he can.

[banned]

Instead of people worrying about trying to best other games, why don't they just focus on making the best game possible by their own standards.

That said, I think this game looks amazing, and where MW2 didn't get any interest from me at all (I haven't even touched it), this game looks like a good fun time online with friends.

Whatever people like is just subjective anyways, in my book MW2 isn't anywhere near the greatest FPS.

I like my book.

Try 60 fps

The only thing that "could" help BC2 is if it has a solid single player story. That's really the only thing MW2 is lacking. Otherwise it will be a major up-hill battle since MW2 has the best multiplayer since pre-source Counter Strike.

Damn .. now i'm itching to play some MW2.. c'mon 5:30!!!!

/enemy spotted!

I kinda liked the pace of the beta.

I'm just starting to get interested in this game so excuse me if this is just common knowledge, but is there going to be a co-op campaign?

Any details on the campaign at all?

Hopefully Bad Company 2 won't be a mediocre FPS like Call of Duty is. Don't get me wrong, Call of Duty 2 is still a great game but since then, the franchise has kind of been going downhill.

The one big thing I am worried about, and this is from the gameplay down a few posts from this one, is how slowly character movement was. CoDs speed can be aggravating sometimes, but it is a good solid pace. On foot movement appears to be walking only in BC2.

I think the campaign will provide some real competition for MW2 but unless they can top CoD's pervasive carrot-on-a-stick multiplayer rewards system, you'll see those used copies pile up pretty fast at your local Gamestop.

Oh, and they'd better come with some pretty damned interesting co-op modes to beat Spec Ops. I guess time will tell.

Especially, with EA coming out and stating this "attack on COD", I can almost assure you that Activision/IW will counter with a "strategically" planned DLC launch right around March 2.

We already know that DLC is coming "Spring" and we also know from history that COD4's map pack released in April and WaW's 1st DLC pack was March.

I'd rather this chump focus on giving us gamers a great experience with BC2 rather than turn this into a "our game is better than their game" pissing contest.

I think Battlefield Bad Company is still the most complete shooter experience and has the potential to unseat Call of Duty if they play their cards correctly. When you factor in all that Battlefield offers with the vehicle combat, the soldier classes, the size of the maps and the style of play the core game modes promote it's just more of a true battle field experience. You feel more like the part of an ongoing battle and less of just a guy running around a map fragging wildly. I think Modern Warfare 2 made some missteps with how they assembled the perk systems and you see people exploiting these game balancing failures already with the dual shotgun/knife classes. Some of these additions although they make Modern Warfare 2 fun, fast and action packed, for a person that prefers a little more realism in the mix, it's going farther away from that model. If Battlefield Bad Company 2 wants to win this fight they have to make sure that first, the mics work on all platforms. There is nothing worse than no communication in a tactical shooter, and this was a problem on both Bad Company and BF:1943 on PS3. Secondly they have to offer more variety of game modes, an area in which Battlefield really lacks. They also have to be sure to not try and copy Modern Warfare 2.....leave that task for the Medal Of Honor reboot. If Battlefield loses it's identity and starts to mimic Modern Warfare too closely in any way, it will really disenfranchise the Battlefield fanbase.