MP1st - "So I popped Battlefield: Bad Company 2 into my Xbox 360 last night for the first time since the release of the Battlefield 3. Much to my surprise, it doesn’t look aged one bit. In fact, I found just as much enjoyment, if not more, than when playing the latest instalment. It quickly became clear to me that Band Company 2 still has some strengths that other shooters, including even Battlefield 3, have yet to surpass."
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the destruction. in BC you could level buildings completely and if you took to long in one area to blow the crates, all cover was destroyed making it infinitely harder. to me this added a level of strategy and urgency to completing the objectives that is missing from BF3.
I still think BC2 is better but i do like BF3.
BFBC1 is still my all time favorite online shooter but i am playing on 360. if i was PC, 64player BF3 would most definitely trump it for me.
A nice update to a server list and user servers would just finish it off nicely :)
BF2 had more factions, more weapons, and more vehicles types. It certainly made you feel the scale and involvement of the battle more than BF3.
The map design was far better, BF2 allowed you to plot points on the map with specific orders, Squad leaders in BF3 are irrelevant because anyone can spawn on anyone.
BF3 has no VOIP, Vehicles have unlimited Ammo + health (this means good jet pilots/tankers dominate), No commander mode for BF3.
Want to talk about missing features?
More weapons? False. BF3 has WAY more weapons.
More vehicles? Not really. From what I can remember in BF2 there were ITVs, hummers/vodniks, APCs, tanks, transport choppers, attack choppers, jets. (Only counting those from the original BF2, not BF2:SF, or the booster packs)
Map design was better? Maybe. BF3 has some great maps. Caspian, Kharg, Noshahr and Damavand are pretty damn good maps in my opinion. Siene and Metro are a good change of pace from the other maps mentioned because they offer a different gameplay style than the vehicle focused big maps. To top that off, DICE gave us 4 of the best maps from Battlefield 2 reimagined in Frostbite 2 which was pretty much a dream come true for me.
Lack of VOIP has never been an issue for me because I'm always on Ventrilo with my friends, but I can see why it's a bummer for a lot of people. Oversight by DICE on that part.
The self repairing/infinite ammo vehicles is not a problem in my opinion. I rather like being able to engage another tank and having a chance to recover from the fight without having to rely 100% on an engineer to save me. It's a slow enough recovery that you still have to be careful not to get overwhelmed, and engineers are still handy to have. Also, they don't repair past a certain point. If you get a tank under 30-40 HP, it slowly takes fire damage before exploding. Same with choppers and jets.
Just my 2 cents.
I still enjoy BF3 but some of these occurrences have hurt the credibility of DICE and the way I view the game overall. Hopefully a new patch/dlc release will make the game better and more worthy of being the sequel to BF2.
In comparison to bf2 vs. bf3, I think someone could play both of them and think that both of them are very well made games, especially since bf2 also had mods that rival current shooters on consoles.