User blog comment:Rampantlion513/BattleNews June 21st, 2012/@comment-72.173.243.205-20120622084838/@comment-2224289-20120624193521

Battlefield isn't anyway near a War Sim. It's composed on a formula that combines slow-paced gameplay with the objective-capture game modes, extensive stat-tracking (which is what mainly made BF2 so famous) and teamwork-based class and point system. Having the fact of a loner being able to capture a strategic point behind enemy lines shouldn't give his team the ability to call on reinforcements behind the lines, but it does, so that part isn't very valid either. With that in place, both games are First-Person Shooters, as I recall, so there's the full right to compare it to Call of Duty, which is simply another FPS with a different formula, giving fast-paced gameplay, lone-wolf-based game modes and skill-based point system. In conclusion, they're both First-Person Shooters, and everyone has the right to compare them.

Secondly, bombers were pilotable in BF1942, including the AC-130 itself in Desert Combat. I find no legitimate reason to not do the same here.