COD vs. Battlefield

Like many people in the gaming community, I have been following the battle that has been looming for months and possibly even years on which game is the best of these two giants. For many years I was a Halo player and eventually picked up COD World at War, which is an awesome game, and I was totally drawn in by the story and the historical aspects of the game, video footage and the weapons of the era. The veteran campaign for this game is by far the hardest I have attempted to play and I can not count the number of times I wanted to throw the controller and spew profanity like a erupting volcano...very frustrating indeed. But none the less, a very good game.

 I picked up COD Black Ops after World at War and thought the game was good, cleaned up graphics and pretty good over all control but I didn't find myself really caring a whole hell of a lot about the characters in the campaign and just tried to drudge through it to get it done. Playing the multiplayer, I soon became very frustrated with the unstoppable force of the magical knife. It seemed that even looking upon this small weapon of mass destruction would kill you from 20 yards away, and it did many times over and over. The lack of dedicated servers reared it's ugly head the more I played and I watched the replays in dismay, as it showed me with my weapon down and I knew I was shooting before the enemy saw me.

 My experience with MW2 campaign was good and I liked the story line but the multiplayer was not better by any means, but I still bought the map packs at the persistence of my friends to get them, thinking it would make the game better....it didn't. Grenade launchers, knives and quick scoping made the game very unpleasurable fast! Then we add the modders to the mix and you have a mess with all of the COD games. Flying soldiers, attack dogs right when the game starts, etc...and none if these things are being fixed by the COD guys. I mean..they already have our money so what reason do they have to fix it? You can just hope you get in a game that works the way it's supposed to.

The new video on the 360 dashboard for MW3 is very bad, buffering endlessly with only being able to see 4 seconds of footage at a time, it starts to give you a headache very quickly. With all of the bad press the game is getting before it's release, it would have been a good idea to release a better video or a beta for that matter. But why release a beta when you're releasing the same game you already know works?


My experience with Battlefield Bad Company 2 was very different. I was able to shoot through boxes and fences, by the way it's really what bullets can do, taking away the irritation of the corner camper. The snipers in buildings were dealt with very quickly with blowing the building up, by the way, it's what a tank can really do to a building and tanks were taken care of with missles from an Apache. Apache's can really blow up tanks and vehicles. The game is very well balanced with the vehicles and weapons and the campaign was a lot of fun playing with a very interesting story and characters that drew you in fast. The Battlefield beta was good for being a pre-E3 game and I am looking forward to the playing the finished product.


The constant improvements that Battlefield has been making through their games shows that they are doing their job on making a better and different game for all of us. I mean honestly, If I'm going to drop $60 on a new game, it should be new and not some rehashed version of the same game they've been doing for years. There are very few games that you can be awesome at the day it comes out so, if you want to be awesome from day 1, COD MW3 is for you.