...are both pretty rubbish (they should put both games together, that I'd like to see!).

Firstly, Battlefield: Bad Company is an incredibly dissapointing game. It's main focus is the fact you can "shape the battlefield" how you wish with the use of "Tactical Destruction". Considering this is the only thing, apart from some rather dull vehicles, that sets it apart from any other FPS, is very saddening. When you grenade a wall (by the way, fragmentation grenades would do no more damage to a wall that your average bullet anyway), boringly geometric squares get cut away from the building in an unrealistic way. Also, when I blew up some random explosive barrles at the bottom of a grain silo the whole thing just turned into dust and dissapeared, which is just pathetic. To be honest, the whole destructive cover system is worse than the partly physics-based one in the PS2's Red Faction and only marginally better than the scripted one in the PS2 and Xbox's Black.

Now don't try and argue "yeah well a truely physics based destruction system will never happen on current-gen" then you're an wee bit of a simpleton because the new Red Faction 3 will have one in, Crysis has one for smaller buildings and for the trees and bushes and World in Conflict has one for vegetation, all buildings and even on the ground. Aside from the destruction system, the game is just dull and unexciting and it's only real high-point is the fact the cutscenes are well written, well acted and are actually funny.

Secondly, I've played the Ninja Gaiden 2 demo and it's not dissapointing, because I wasn't expecting it to be good. The only thing that makes it better than Devil May Cry 4 is that it's got really fun and over-the-top gore. But that's it. Other wise it's exactly the same game that even has the same sound effects and the same graphical style. The thing that sets it apart from Devil May Cry, apart from the gore however, is that the graphics are rubbish. All in all I find this genre of gaming a waste of current-gen systems' power.

UPDATE: I've played a wee bit of Bad Company online and I have to say it's classic Battlefield. In other words I'm sure it's great online but I'll probably never know because it takes about half an hour to get into a game, then the game is either fantastically laggy or you disconnect due to an error and then EA blames you for it. Oh yeah, and these are the worst controls in any FPS ever; who's great idea was to put crouch on the right stick? And which imposile is responsible for the helicopter controls. Man, the helicopter controls in that Battlefield 1942 mod Desert Combat were better...and a tiny team of like five guys built that part of the engine from scratch and it was so good EA bought it off them!

Wow, I wish something truely good would come out, even in the cinema just to stop me writing ranty blogs. I enjoy a rant but to be honest I'm getting a bit sick of them. Oh yeah, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots comes out next week! Huraah! And then The Dark Knight soon after! If I was playing Counter Strike: Source right now I'd probably say something like "WOOT"!

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