User blog comment:DarthKazah/BC2 vs MW2/@comment-1901459-20100321093720

well I think it did need a beta, that way all the bugs that are popping up now would have been fixed before the game came out. COD4 had a beta as did WaW. I believe they didnt put a beta so they could surprise people with the new features and so nobody would know wat to expect. Just because maps are small, doesn't mean things like killstreaks couldn't be glitched (unlimited care-packages). In Bad Company, you don't hear of many major glitches like that, because any that there already were have been fixed in the beta. It also has slightly worse graphics because it uses the Frostbite engine which allows destruction. In COD, IW cut corners on the Campaign (I was able to complete it on Veteran in less than 6 hours on my first play-through), and the co-op is nothing revolutionary at all. In multiplayer, 3rd person was a last minute mode, with bad aiming mechanics and terrible annimations. They also decided to cut the squad based advantages from WaW and weren't bothered to implement the same assassit point system as in WaW. Thats a number of short cuts and I can name more. But as a general game when not focusing on such things the gameplay is good and the combat is fun, the only thing that drags down the experience is the annoyig killstreaks, you could have an AC130, 2 harriers, and an airstrike all on the field at the same time. WaW and COD4 made it more balanced, giving fair weapons perks, and everyone having the same fair killstreaks. A harrier is not fair (helicopter/airstrike? Seriously, come on).