I was super hyped for BFBC2. I'm not gonna say it disappointed because I knew the gameplay from the PS3 beta and demo. The multiplayer is a solid 9.6 in my personal opinion whereas the single player was maybe an 8.5.
Multiplayer
After playing a month and a half on the beta on one map and another month on the demo for another map, I'm still sold on it. Take in mind I never played MW2, but I did play a hell of a lot of CoD4. Anything that it and CoD do the same, BFBC2 does better tenfold. DICE refined what kind of gameplay they wanted quite a bit and it works extremely well. Camping works only if you're really damn good at it because flanking is key in the game at all times which doesn't work out so well for campers, especially when they forget the environment is destructible.
Singleplayer
It's nice but nothing memorable. The villain never truly takes hold as a villain till nearly the end. The missions you go on don't feel very rewarding once you've finished them. There's a whole lot of trial and error that goes on, you'll die a lot because the margin of error is slim to none at certain points. The enemy AI is creepily epic at spotting you, but blind as bats in other times. Your squad shoot a lot but at some points they'll have a whole gun fight with one or two enemies and not kill them until you do it yourself... yes you'll be killing tenfold amount they do. Your squad does a whole lot of talking, but nothing much about them personally... plenty of little antics. There's a huge build-up for 'the weapon' near the end that'll have your blood circulating. The biggest issue with SP is the fact that there are far too many times you'll find yourself way ahead of your squad when they let you take point (without telling you) even if you were walking, like they forget what they're supposed to be doing while you find yourself outnumbered in places where they should be helping then they'll randomly rush over and help out. The story feels kinda loose because it never really grasps what exactly you're doing besides aimlessly chasing a mystery device the whole time. There are definitely some nice heated moments in there though that will keep you engaged so for that I give SP a 8.5. A lot of technical issues hold the score down.
I would say the game is a 9.3 overall which is better than what I think CoD4 is, but it's weird because single player is nice but almost no one plays this game for that anyway. So if you're into MP you're getting a outstanding game, but if you're the select few who only care for SP then it's a rental. If you care for MP or both it's a definite buy.
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