User blog comment:DevilWarrior112/Alliance to stop Akimbo 1887s/@comment-1079585-20100104094749

@ Callofduty4: I think it's safe to say that the ACR in MW2 is a 5.56. And please don't confuse balance and realism. It is true that the ACR takes little skill to use, but it also has an incredibly low damage per second, making it one of the worst weapons in the game to a skilled player and just generally bad for close and medium range combat. And the SCAR's small magazine is a pretty major flaw, not to mention that it fires a bit on the slow side (but still maintains a pretty good DPS). The TAR-21 combines the ACR's ROF and magazine size with the SCAR's damage, and then adds a bit of recoil into the mix. I would say that it is considerably better than either except at very long ranges, where it is still pretty good while the SCAR is great and the ACR is amazing.