EA has been throwing punches at Activision’s Modern Warfare 2 for a while now with claims that their DICE studio’s new Battlefield: Bad Company 2 would keep dedicated servers for PC gamers, valuing them and the importance of PC gameplay and customization.
Now they’re trying to throw the full one-two punch with one being the release of the newest Battlefield installment…
On Friday, the headmaster of the European division of EA, Jens Uwe, spoke to MCV and said the following:
“In March we will launch Battlefield: Bad Company 2, which is our first strong attack on Call Of Duty… The shooter space is one we don’t want to give up. It’s an important genre and we were the number one. So we are certainly working on how we can get that crown back and Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is an important product in that context.”
All of us who’ve played both the first Bad Company and the Modern Warfare titles know the games are very different in style and gunplay but we also recently found out that DICE is making some changes including making enemies much easier to kill to fall in line with the more run-and-gun style of Modern Warfare.
I prefer the PC version of Battlefield 1942, Battlefield 2 and Battlefield 2142 more than I do the Bad Company games and I don’t think the latest one stands a chance against Infinity Ward’s recent record-breaking numbers but I’m still very excited to play it.
That being said, part two of the assault against Modern Warfare 2 is of course with the reinvention of Medal of Honor which takes that series into modern combat as well. I hold high hopes for that but it’s been a few years since the last release in the series so it’ll be an uphill battle to compete.
Source: MCV
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I’m looking forward to seeing what the next Medal of Honour looks like, but I have my doubts that I will enjoy it as much as I did the Modern Warfare games. Even the last Medal of Honour game I wasn’t too pleased with the gameplay and haven’t played it through it yet, I just wasn’t finding it enjoyable.
this game has no chance. i played the open beta and it played exactly like Bad Company 1 did… this game was simply poorly made. controls are sluggish, graphics aren’t impressive by any means, and don’t listen to what they tell you: it takes almost an entire clip from any weapon to take down an enemy player. i will definitely not be buying this game after the horrible beta experience i had with this one.
Clip? What are you using, a M1 Garand?? I thought this game was set in modern times where magazines are used instead of clips??
LOL, kidding, kidding, I know you meant the movie meaning of the word, not the real meaning…
i played the first one and it didnt even stand a chance against modern warfare 2 so yea theres no way it will be better than modern warfare2
bring back battlefield 2 or something that has better multi
the single player is very standard and a chore to play through in bc and it its not even on same level as call of duty
So Company is like a console dumbed down version of Battlefield 2? Because Battlefield 2 is an excellent game, I still play it with friends even now, and it’s been out for what, 3 years? I hope they would release an updated version of a game just like that… COD Modern Warfare’s multiplayer got really old and boring in just a few months and all of my friends and I stopped playing it…
Oops, meant to ask if Bad Company was a dumbed down console version of Battlefield 2…
I just finished COD: Modern Warfare 2 and I have to say it is one of the best run and shoot games, Battlefield is just a different genre and I don't see much similarities between them. Yes they are FPS but the gameplay element is totally different.
Both the companies are just making poorly developed rehashes of their original games to try and boost profits anyway. They add very little, if anything, to the genre. There's nothing really “new” about these games.