This is what happens when you beat your chest too hard.
Yes, I know it's got the Almighty Frostbite 2 Engine! (Capped for a reason) But where's the innovation from it? Yeah, you can use a flashlight and a laser. Ok...nice but not enough to make me start Occupying Infinity Ward in a smelly tent, sorry.
First off, does anyone even care about the storyline here? For that matter, anyone even KNOW what it is?...... I've heard nothing but complaints, even from fans of the game. My thought is this: If you're going to even BOTHER adding a campaign, why not at least put some effort into it?
They added Spec Ops, which was pretty fun and a good idea to add in-game content as you progress, problem is, the missions are beatable within hours of owning it and you won't have much unlocked, thus forcing you to replay the same missions over and over......and over.
The multiplayer. Well, all I can say about this is repeat what I've said above: It's a prettier version of Bad Company 2. I DO like the improvement to the light machine guns, whereby it truly does suppress the opposition and I DO like the light/laser functions, they're fun, but innovative? Hardly. Reason to act as though we just received game of the decade? Um, no.
If you liked BC2, you'll enjoy this multiplayer, that's about the best I can offer there.
It's not that it's BAD (thus my 6.5), it's just that it was sold to us as not only the new king of the throne, but as if it was going to blow us out of the water, which is not true by any measure. Add to that the fact that EA is horrific for online play to begin with (the first week of release, you couldn't complete a game for anything, and that is when you actually were able to join one.).
Sold on Amazon for forty bucks a week and a half after I picked it up. Don't believe the hype.