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By ChrisBUK2 2007-11-17 00:00:00 0 out of 0 found this reivew helpful |
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I have had an amazing amount of fun on this game. The VOIP is awsome because you can talk to other players and it makes the whole gaming experience so much more fun.There are also some excellent mods for this game now, like Project Reality mod which (Read full review at Review Centre)
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| Pros: Excellent multi player game play.Good graphics.Realistic.VOIP which is EXCELLENT. You can talk to other players in real life, making the whole gaming experience much better.Loads of new mods. |
| Cons: Still quite a few bugs,Loading screens can take ages, and the whole menu/main screens feel buggy poorly programmed.Not as much support now Battlefield 2 142 has been released. |
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By Cognition 2007-05-19 00:00:00 0 out of 0 found this reivew helpful |
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Battlefield 2 is simply the best first person shooter I have ever played (well it was, until I got the sequel). For the time of its release (2005) Battlefield 2 must have been the best first person shooter in the world. It isn't perfect, but let's (Read full review at Review Centre)
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| Pros: One of the best first person shooters, beaten only by its sequel Excellent graphics Good sound Excellent multiplayer |
| Cons: Physics (at times) |
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By Little Pete 2007-01-02 00:00:00 0 out of 0 found this reivew helpful |
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This PC game is awesome, and it offers new forces, such as the SAS (Special Air Service), and new weapons, eg. the Heckler & Koch G36C, and also special forces items like grappling and zip lines. I would recommend Battlefield 2 . (Read full review at Review Centre)
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| Pros: Fantastic graphics. Modern weapons. Awesome unlocks, such as the SA80A1 (Small Arms of the 80's), otherwise known as the (L85A1), with SUSAT sight (Sight Unit Small Arms Trilux), and great ranking system online. Play as USMC (United States Marine Corps), |
| Cons: Takes a lot of playing to get ranks online. |
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| Simple review |
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from Annapolis, MD 2006-12-08 22:07:53 0 out of 0 found this reivew helpful |
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This is most certainly The best shooter game out there,(well I mean besides its sequel...) and why? because half of it is not a FPS(first person shooter) when you buy this game you dont just get a FPS; you get a Excellent flight simulator, awsome...
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| Pros: + very real simulation of actual modern war-fare
+ simple but fun unlockable weapons *witch after fighting on strike at karkand map 40 times with a ak-47 is nice
+ lots of differnt skill sets (that is you can still do well in the multiplayers, and have |
| Cons: - I DONT CARE WHAT THEY SAY ON THE FRONT THERE IS NO SINGLE PLAYER
- A bit pricy with all the bells and whistles $40(orginal game) + $20(special forces) + $20(booster pack) $80
of course it is worth it to have those add ons
(if the price goes do |
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| Great First Person Shooter |
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from Murrieta, CA 2006-12-02 16:47:11 0 out of 0 found this reivew helpful |
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If you ever get boared of this game get the next battle of EA's merchandise
Battlefield 2142
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| Pros: Battlefield 2 I would say is a great shooter for those modern world combat lovers although its not 100% is real they make it do feel like it. Great Online gamig for those who can access it. Awsome game A+++++ |
| Cons: Every Key is a command =(. Best for online gaming if you an person who doen't like to shoot alone. Lots of hard core BF2ers that gets on first time players nerves so it will make you feel like quiting online gameplay then youll get boared of singleplayer. |
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| Battlefield 2 isn't actually the second game in the series; it's the third. As it is, some fans of Battlefield 1942 are perfectly content to forget Battlefield: Vietnam anyway. Either way, the Battlefield games were excellent team-driven games that p ...
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| If you consider yourself a serious gamer, you’ve surely had a brush with Electronic Arts’ Battlefield series, which lets you wreak havoc around massive maps with up to 63 other players. When the original Battlefield 1942 was released, it took the gaming community by storm. Since then, EA has kept the series alive with expansion packs and even a standalone game called Battlefield Vietnam. This time around, Battlefield 2 sports a new graphics engine and offers yet more single and multiplayer mayhem. The new game pits three armies - China, the Middle Eastern Coalition and the United States - in mortal combat with each other. As before, you can spawn and play as several different types of infantry, each adept at a particular aspect of warfare. Unlike past games however, one player on each side can assume the role of a Commander. Playing the Commander role allows you to survey the current battlefield, drop supply crates and ammo, while also allowing you to introduce the enemy to some savage artillery fire. Should your team be inclined to work together in mini-teams, the Commander can also set different objectives for each, giving a real element of teamplay. While team working gives you a better shot at victory, be warned that staying together in groups isn’t necessarily a good idea. All it takes is a single, well-placed tank shell to blow an entire team to smithereens - something we experienced more than once. Although vehicles will help you in your ‘conquest’, the game’s various maps are chock full of rock formations, ruins and more, which can make life as a tank driver quite challenging. The game is not entirely without flaws, as the server browser is still quite clumsy to work with. Assigning keys is also a niggle, as Battlefield 2 doesn’t really tell you which function a key is already bound to, should you wish to use it for something else. These problems don’t really ruin the gameplay however, which is still utterly engaging. Battlefield 2 rewards gamers for having a top spec system, as the game’s graphics are gorgeous at high resolutions. Environments and textures are vibrant and sharp, which give the game an extremely polished feel. Extra details such as birds flying out of trees when gunfire is being exchanged just add further to BF’s already sizeable appeal. The game also boasts some top-notch sound effects and music, which nicely rounds out EA’s latest installment in the Battlefield series. ...
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| -- Maxpc Expert, Maxpc 0 out of 0 found this reivew helpful |
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| Battlefield 2 Less armoured car and more rollercoaster - meet the kamikaze brilliance of the tactical combat game of the year. Details complete a game. Amongst the great multiplicity of details that complete Battlefield 2, there is one minor feature that is both obscure and wonderful. It's the phrases uttered by the players' voice command shortcuts. If you're part of the American army, you hear it in English, but if you're Arabic or Chinese, you actually hear it in Chinese or Arabic, rather than in some horrible faux-ethnic accent. Not terribly useful perhaps, but it feels so authentic. Battlefield 2 is ripe with the kind of quality that makes you want to just dive in, head first, and never come up for air. Bombshell dropped This new Battlefield arrives, bomb-like, on a gaming scene that its predecessor radically transformed. Remarkably, Battlefield 1942 was a vehicular combat game so small in stature that prior to its release publishers Electronic Arts weren't even sure whether it was going to be much of a hit. It was low-key, a toe in the water. Nothing special, or so it seemed. How things have changed. Now this zone-capturing flag-domination game is standard fare for PCs, and most of us have had our moment of jeep-clad glory, thanks to Battlefield 1942. Online gaming was injected with new evolutionary energy after the arrival of the first game and now, three years on, it returns triumphantly. But can this sequel really make the difference? With so much water under the bridge, is another Battlefield game really going to impress even the most cynical of gamers? Well, yes. But let's not get over-zealous: this is still Battlefield. Indeed, those of us who've been enjoying the Battlefield mod Desert Combat will see much that is familiar in these shrapnel-kissed boulevards. The feel of vehicles, the immediacy of play, the sheer obviousness of going from infantry, to tank-pilot, to jet-fighter is still evident. But everything has been magnified in a modern theatre of war. Just as a contemporary assault rifle puts a World War II semi-automatic in archaic perspective, so the integration of helicopters, heat-seeking missiles and remote-detonated explosives into Battlefield 2 put perspective on the genre as a whole. More explicitly: Battlefield 2 is like porn for the military hardware fetishists. The jet fighters are formidable and speedy, while killing infantry with the flak-spewing guns of a mobile anti-aircraft unit is one of digital war's most visceral ballistic moments. You want to play with everything. Despite the superficial familiarity, little can prepare you for the utter intensity of Battlefield 2. There are more ways to die and the lavish battlefields are more realistic than ever. Racing up a mountain path in a jeep, you can feel the impact of the shells fired after you. In claustrophobic urban environments you have to pick your cover wisely as material types can be penetrated by appropriate weapons. There are simply so many new situations to wrestle with that just getting to know the game becomes a thrill. New kits for the soldiers make a real difference. Old favourites like anti-tank, engineer and medic are still here, but there's new stuff too; most notable is the special ops class, which provides you with a lightweight assault rifle and remote-detonated C4 packs. This delightful addition provides clues as to how the tactical challenge has changed: there is now a genuine need for special ops actions, such as crippling artillery, radar and aerial drones stationed behind enemy lines. This is all part of Battlefield 2's introduction of another vital ingredient to its rich recipe: the electronic battlefield and the tactical commander. Take command Players can elect to be the commander, a position they can be voted out of by the rest of the team. This chap can use a top-down map to launch UAV drones to spot enemy, fire artillery, or drop supplies. He can also place objectives and waypoints which players will be able to use to co-ordinate their actions. Of course, the commander is nothing without his tools, and this is where the special ops come in: they are able to cripple the radar, the UAV and the artillery, and thus neuter the commander. An engineer can always fix up the demolished infrastructure, but that's taking him away from a position on the front lines. It's this extra tactical nuance that makes Battlefield 2 a little more challenging. But there's another aspect to the way Battlefield 2 has transformed its tactics; the introduction of the squad system. When that command waypoint goes up, it's the members of squads who will see it. Anyone can start a squad and up to six others can choose to join. Squads allow a little more co-ordination, and are also tied into the in-game voice-comm channels. Even more usefully, they allow squad members to choose to spawn, after death, with their squad leader, rather than at one of the base locations. This ensures that squads can be tighter and more cohesive, as well as making sure that a dead player doesn't have to walk a long way to find some action. If the squad leader is in a vehicle then players will spawn in the other seats. Filling up a Blackhawk as you fly might not be realistic, but it is fun, especially when you choose to bail out, parachute to the ground and run across the rooftops, delivering death-from-above to unsuspecting enemies, only to die and return to that minigun position and deliver even more death. A review of this size can't do justice to the possibilities of combat that Battlefield offers. It is a maelstrom experience, constantly delivering surprises. Stupid, but less stupid Problems? Well, there are a couple. There are still some performance issues. Even with a fair old beast of a PC we were getting jitters and disconnections. You're going to want a powerful PC and a stable connection if you're going to make Battlefield 2 your new home. Interestingly though, the singleplayer isn't something we're going to complain about. Sure, the AI players are still stupid, but they're less stupid than before, and all the singleplayer maps are intelligently scaled-down for ease of play. Offline play really is an option, although we wouldn't recommend it. Few games reward the imagination and skills of your fellow players so fruitfully. You'll want to play with friends, again and again - and the squad system makes it ever easier to be sure that you and your buddies are teamed up and playing together, even on a public server. Better still, Battlefield 2 is going to be tracking just about any statistics that you can think of in-game. On ranked servers you'll be put in the overall tables, as well as given a breakdown of your deaths, kills and accuracy. Servers can also offer up demo recordings of recent games, so if you're playing competitively, then you are able to download them and see where you went wrong and where the enemy did something a bit special, thus learning from your mistakes. For online gaming, casual or serious team play, Battlefield 2 is peerless. Jim Rossignol This article first appeared in PC Format Issue 177 - August 2005 Related Links Compare Prices Click Here to Shop Format page for printing Email article to a friend ...
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| Battlefield 2 Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge Click to Enlarge It’s all a question of ambition. The first online 3D shooters gave us bursts of exhilarating action, but little real depth or tactical complexity. Then, while the likes of Team Fortress, Counter Strike and Unreal Tournament showed the genre taking baby steps towards a more sophisticated, team-based gameplay, Battlefield 1942 took a deep breath and leapt forward. With large maps that could cope with up to 64 players, a multitude of vehicles and a complex set of inter-dependent character classes, the game took the small-scale, bloodthirsty dramas of those earlier games and turned them into something operatic. Which must have made the sequel a tricky proposition. A change of setting and a new graphics engine might be enough for some developers, but not one of DICE’s ambition (Battlefield Vietnam only did the former, and was never a proper sequel). Some changes to the gameplay were needed, but when you’re cooking on a grand scale, you run greater risks when changing the ingredients. How do you make the action feel even more epic, but still make the player feel they count? Amazingly, Battlefield 2 does exactly that. At heart the premise remains pretty simple. We might have moved on from the Axis vs Allies of Battlefield 1942 to (hopefully) fictional modern-day conflicts between US Marines and the Chinese People’s Army or a ‘Middle East Coalition’, but the basic objectives are the same. Two sides battle for control of a map, fighting over specific points that a) control where players can respawn after meeting their demise and b) affect the number of spawns that side has available. Once all control points are captured and the enemy eliminated, or the other side runs out of spawns, the game is won. In action, it doesn’t seem so simple. With 63 other individuals out there, some on foot, some in jeeps, tanks or assorted all-terrain vehicles, or even taking to the air in jets or helicopters, what seems so easy can quickly turn into a disorganised mess, with spawn points won and lost every other second, and no real sense of a bigger picture. How do you stop this happening? Battlefield 2’s solution is twofold. The first part is the introduction of a new role: the commander. The commander takes a step back from the fray in order to provide information and leadership. This means they only get a dull map to look at during play, but does offer several compensations, in being able to set orders, call in satellite sweeps, reconnaissance drones or supply drops or – best of all – target artillery strikes on enemy positions. That’s a lot of power, and a lot of responsibility. Using your information to set the right objective and using artillery to advantage is the name of the game, and if the commander fails, their team mates can easily vote them out. While this encourages a degree of top-down organisation, it only works because of a second fundamental change – squads – formed of up to five troops and a squad leader. The squad leader takes orders from the commander, and then filters these down, either using a range of keyboard based commands and objective markers on the mini-map, or the old fashioned way – speech, using Voice over IP. To keep things simple, players can only speak directly to other players in their squad, and only squad leaders can talk to the commander. ...
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| ItÂ?s all a question of ambition. The first online 3D shooters gave us bursts of exhilarating action, but little real depth or tactical complexity. Then, while the likes of Team Fortress, Counter Strike and Unreal Tournament showed the genre taking baby steps towards a more sophisticated, team-based gameplay, Battlefield 1942 took a deep breath and leapt forward. With large maps that could cope with up to 64 players, a multitude of vehicles and a complex set of inter-dependent character classes, the game took the small-scale, bloodthirsty dramas of those earlier games and turned them into something operatic. Which must have made the sequel a tricky proposition. A change of setting and a new graphics engine might be enough for some developers, but not one of DICEÂ?s ambition (Battlefield Vietnam only did the former, and was never a proper sequel). Some changes to the gameplay were needed, but when youÂ?re cooking on a grand scale, you run greater risks when changing the ingredients. How do you make the action feel even more epic, but still make the player feel they count? Amazingly, Battlefield 2 does exactly that. At heart the premise remains pretty simple. We might have moved on from the Axis vs Allies of Battlefield 1942 to (hopefully) fictional modern-day conflicts between US Marines and the Chinese PeopleÂ?s Army or a Â?Middle East CoalitionÂ?, but the basic objectives are the same. Two sides battle for control of a map, fighting over specific points that a) control where players can respawn after meeting their demise and b) affect the number of spawns that side has available. Once all control points are captured and the enemy eliminated, or the other side runs out of spawns, the game is won. In action, it doesnÂ?t seem so simple. With 63 other individuals out there, some on foot, some in jeeps, tanks or assorted all-terrain vehicles, or even taking to the air in jets or helicopters, what seems so easy can quickly turn into a disorganised mess, with spawn points won and lost every other second, and no real sense of a bigger picture. How do you stop this happening? Battlefield 2Â?s solution is twofold. The first part is the introduction of a new role: the commander. The commander takes a step back from the fray in order to provide information and leadership. This means they only get a dull map to look at during play, but does offer several compensations, in being able to set orders, call in satellite sweeps, reconnaissance drones or supply drops or Â? best of all Â? target artillery strikes on enemy positions. ThatÂ?s a lot of power, and a lot of responsibility. Using your information to set the right objective and using artillery to advantage is the name of the game, and if the commander fails, their team mates can easily vote them out. While this encourages a degree of top-down organisation, it only works because of a second fundamental change Â? squads Â? formed of up to five troops and a squad leader. The squad leader takes orders from the commander, and then filters these down, either using a range of keyboard based commands and objective markers on the mini-map, or the old fashioned way Â? speech, using Voice over IP. To keep things simple, players can only speak directly to other players in their squad, and only squad leaders can talk to the commander. ...
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