Had a chance to play Bad Company 2, didn;t have a chance to play the Beta, but I did finally load up the full game and gave it a shot.

First impressions...

Video Card issues...Having trouble with my 8800 GTX, all explosions totally screw up the screen, looks like in both single and multiplayer.  Haven't invested alot of time fixing it yet, but did manage to complete the entire Singleplayer campaign with it doing it.

Single Player....The graphics (when they are working) are amazing...very realistic.  Although I managed to finish the Single Player campaign in less than 2 days on Normal.  (Very Short) It doesn;t have the feel of Call of Duty, but it is decent.  The characters do come off as a bit phoney to me, but they are good for a couple of laughs!

Multiplayer...I;ve only played a couple of matches, definitely a different feel than COD, the vehicles really change things, and I totally SUCK at flying a helicopter...it did seem that you had to hit someone several times before dropping them.  The defend the M-com stations are an interesting twist, once destroying the A and B targets, the defending team falls back to an additional two targets, for a total of 8...its makes it like having 4 rounds built into 1 with no breaks in between.

All in all, not a bad game, I want to try a few more matches, maybe try out ACC's server.  I;ll keep you posted.

Sas.