User blog comment:DevilWarrior112/CRAP!/@comment-1427137-20100427205942

I'd like to take Battlefield: Bad Company 2 for example. The game was created in about a year and a half. I have heard very few complaints about it, only a few requests and a complaint here and there about the OP M60s and M16A2. Many think this game is phenomenal. How could such a great game be created in only a year and a half? Because there's barely any new content. All the guns, all the vehicles, all the buildings, the engine itself were developed during the production of the first Bad Company.

MW2 had a TONE of new content, whether it was weapons, maps, avatars, effects and a new engine to top it all off. And they only had 2 years to do all that! IW pretty much had to slave over making the game, not to mention having demos ready for events like E3 and PAX.

Good games with new stuff take time.