Which to buy first; Black Ops or Bad Company 2?

[TomLikesGuitar]

Bad Company 2 has a much more team based multiplayer. In CoD you'll find yourself camping for killstreaks instead of running out to go help your team win. This is a serious problem in objective gametypes, but it works itself out in deathmatch.

Basically, if you like your shooters to rely on team gameplay get BC2, otherwise CoD:BO is your game.

 

[TelHybrid]

Halo Reach! =D

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[Jabberwock xeno]

Halo Reach! =D

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Am a commander grade 3.

I "cycle" through genre's. Right now I am urging for modern day shooters.

IE: after playing Halo, I get the urge for a modern day shooter, then urge for class based shooters, then classed based action games, then action games, then strategy, then simulations, then RPGs or MMOs, then back to Halo.

 

[electric method]

I'd save your cash. Both Battlefield 2 and COD BO are both the same bland, samey, generic as all hell shooters that should have never seen the light of day. In both cases you'll just get to a point, rather quickly, that you realize: "I am bored out of my mind. What possessed me to pay any amount of money for this?"

 

[zombiesinc]

For a minute, I was being stoopid, and was thinking BC3 when reading BC2, and was about to say "It's not even out yet..."

Anyways, it highly depends on your preference in play style. The BC2 ultimate edition is out, which includes On-Slaught mode (4-player co-op) and Battlefield 1943 (originally worth 1200 MS points ($15USD)). Sadly, it's the same price (roughly) as Black Ops, but you do get more product than you originally would have.

Black Ops is great too. It's got a much more arcade feel to it, but with larger maps this time around. So, it's something between Medal of Honor/MW2 and BC2, map wise. You get the zombie mode (4-player co-op), Zork, and Dead Ops Arcade on top of the multiplayer.

Oh, and BC2 isn't as much fun if you're playing alone, whereas with Black Ops you can still dominate going solo. Now, if you've got a lot of friends to play with, Black Ops will likely be a ***** when it comes to multiplayer. My friends and I struggle to get more than three of us in a game at once. More often than not the party will get disbanded, and you'll have to retry with your fingers crossed.

So, it really boils down to your preferred playing style. BC2 has larger maps, and longer matches, while feeling a hell of a lot more realistic than Black Ops (by this, I mean it will, at times, feel slow). While Black Ops has shorter matches, smaller maps (though larger than most MW2 maps), and zombies.

 

[darth jacen]

Get Black Ops. BFBC2 steals so many set pieces from COD4 and MW2 there is no point getting it if you have already beaten COD 4 or MW2. Black Ops is a rather fun game with the most pointed story for a COD game yet. Not as good a story as COD4, but very good. Defiantly worth the 60$ and for sure better than BFBC2.

I don't know what rock you have been living under, remind me when COD 4 came out because i swear BF2 came out before that and cod 4's multilayer was pretty much a stolen rehash of bf2 + DOD. If you buy either game for single player you are crazy because neither has the staying power of their mp brethren. if you would rather play Mp then stick to bfbc2 the vast majority of the bugs have been defused and it doesn't have a for sure onslaught of pointless DLC that will come out 3 months down the road for an outrageous cost. On another note you would like to use a rehashed version of COD4, WAW or MW2 engine or an actual engine that will test your system to it's limits i.e the frostbite 1.5 engine. it's your choice ... last thing do you prefer (cluster ASDF) matches or strategical matches)

Bad company 2 came out about 2 years after Cod 4... MW2 and BFBC2 came out almost together with MW2 coming first. Also, some of us enjoy story and multiplayer means very little to us. Just subjective opinion.

I hate to bring it to your attention but bf2 stands for battlefield 2 mate and it was released in 2005. oh how sad it is to not play multiple platforms or follow other releases on other platforms...

I understand... but seeing as he was asking about bad company I found the comments about bf2 irrelevant.

 

[Mad World]

I guess that it really doesn't matter which you get first, but Bad Company 2 is an amazing game (for PC, anyway; I've only ever played the demo on a console).

Black Ops is really fun, but I still think that Bad Company 2 takes the cake (it doesn't have "Zombies" mode, though xD).

 

[TelHybrid]

Halo Reach! =D

Trollololol

Am a commander grade 3.

I "cycle" through genres. Right now I am urging for modern day shooters.

IE: After playing Halo, I get the urge for a modern day shooter, then the urge for class based shooters, then classed based action games, then action games, then strategy, then simulations, then RPGs or MMOs, then back to Halo.

Oh I know the feeling, I have those kinds of phases too. I had a major sidescroller phase recently, coincedentally enough when Sonic 4 was released.

In terms of recommendations, I personally would suggest Bad Company 2 based on my own opinion really. That probably doesn't mean much but at least I'm not fanboying. =]

Bad Company 2 really encourages teamwork, and punishes cheap tactics such as camping (because the wall you're hiding behind could explode =D), so you don't get pricks who worry about their KD to the point of behaving as such as much as with CoD. Also if you like vehicles in your shooters then Battlefield is the way to go.

Call of Duty Black Ops... I've only briefly played that, so all I can say is so far it seems fun. The zombie mode hasn't really added much since World at War, I was never a big fan, either you love it or you hate it by the looks of things. The online multiplayer seems to stick to typical Call of Duty gameplay, plus console versions now allow split screen online so now players can take guests online like in Halo, and they seem to have gotten rid of a lot of the things that made Modern Warfare 2 the pile of shit that it was.

Hope this non-sensical ramble helps.

 

[geforceman]

In my opinion I think you should get Bad Company 2 because it would be a good change after playing all those COD, also Bad Company 2 has a good storyline that will keep you entertain.

 

[Nikolaz72]

Battlefield Bad Company 2. Blackops is MW2 Reincarnate and let me tell you. MW2 brings SOOOOO Much rage with it. I mean why would anyone WILLINGLY play something that makes them angry beyond imagination when they die and indifferent when they stay alive.

In Battlefield Bad Company 2 you might experience rage, but not as frequently the maps are larger and you usually see the guy shooting you. So thats the simple reason for less rage.