Because riding a Horse does make you reach a Location faster then riding a Bike? Specially if you are full equip.
From this picture I found of BF2142 on google I can't agree... But since you're the expert I'll let you explain how the first picture is much more impressive than the second.
Graphically I'd still call it an above avrage game (kind of obvious with the ammounts of money behind it), it's just less gimmicky than others (No, I am not talking about BF3 here).
The CoD series is all sub-HD anyway while BF2142 probably went up to God-knows-what with support for anti-aliasing and a bunch of other high-end enhancements that are obviously turned off in that screenshot. None of this matters anyway since we're talking not only Black Ops here, but also Call of Duty and also Treyarch. Talk about the perfect storm.
Really it was more of a sarcastic comment all around. I wasn't talking just about graphics, gameplay too. When I first saw the trailer I said "dang I've already played this, 5 years ago!" I'd rather just wait for 2143 when it drops..
But the graphics don't look THAT much better comparing a 5 yo game screenshot which also has everything turned down/off to your trailer screenshot... Search up 2142 HD gameplay images...
from the interviews it did sound like they were atleast trying to do somethign different with multiple endings (and hey, it's not a BioWare game from 2012!) and these strike force missions (I think that's what they called them)
I agree man, it should be good! I'm just a self admitted BF fanboy and when I saw this I litterally groaned. But it doesn't mean I won't check it out.