Reprawn system rocks. Great shooter in its own right.
It no doubts diminishes the difficulty by a large margin but who on earth dare embrace frustration out loud? The people can still challenge themselves to surviving the whole mission so it is nonsense to say veteran players are left unattended.
What I see is that the reprawn system nicely prevented a lot of hard job arising from the checkpoint way.
Also, Bad Company features many moments where the player has to take on armored vehicles or even a chopper with normal weaponry so believe me you can die. And you will be pissed. Without the helpful reprawn system, hell can last forever.
An addition of single player campaign pleased me. I liked that they invest time into telling a narrative rather than just throwing a map at us and telling us to run around gun blasting (Left 4 Dead).
Besides these, all the merits have been told.