They're both products of rote anime aesthetics. It's not like DMC 4 necessarily borrowed a look specifically from FMA in the same way Gears of War's dudes didn't borrow from, like, Cable (of the X-Men). They're just stylistically indebted to a certain cultural look.
One good thing to come of this is that Black Ops is siphoning attention away from Bad Company 2, and many of the unsavory types who plagued that game have not transitioned to BO. It's much more civil on BC2, at least, in the games I've participated in recently.
Depending how loose we get with the criteria for inclusion, I'd go with Devil May Cry 4. There's nothing quite as satisfying as keeping an enemy suspending in the air with gunplay, only to strike him down with a sword hit.
I enjoy vapid beat-em-ups as much as the next guy, but this seems so derivative that I can't fathom ever playing it. I mean, it seems to resemble games like Hunter: the Reckoning, only slathered with blood. Aesthetics alone aren't enough to hold my interest, at least for $60.
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