Battlefield: Bad Company 2‘s marketing begs for comparisons to Modern Warfare 2. The little details in BC2‘s trailers — from the weapons, to the experience points, to the diagonal lines that show up on your cross hair when you shoot someone — bore similarities to Infinity Ward’s shooter. Loading up the BC2 beta, I expected a wannabe Modern Warfare. Instead, I was surprised by how BC2 felt. From Battlefield 2 to 2142 to 1943: the classes, big maps, and vehicles come together into a uniquely Battlefield experience.

As with every other game in the series, the chaos of a match hit me like a slap in the face.