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Darn good today, truly great tomorrow.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 130 / 160
Date: October 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I used to furrow my brow at the site of each new model of S-Class Mercedes, usually redone every 5 years or so. I can remember my father telling me that Mercedes designs cars to look good tomorrow, not today. He was right. With every model, like clockwork, after a year or so they'd start looking good, then great. My bet is Battlefield will be much like that. As truly fun as it is to play today, it'll be much better in a year or so.

Few quick reasons to love this game:

1. When you run it on a great machine the graphics/game physics are mindblowing.

2. The game encourages teamplay. I know, it's hard to imagine quake trained gamers playing medics, but over the past months since its release, the game is conditioning its players to team up. It's working, and it's really really fun to work with a good squad.

3. The game/network is very intelligent. Scarily intelligent. Everything you do on a ranked server is tracked forever. Everything. Gaining rank gets you new weapons and status you can leverage into a Commander position.

4. This game not only supports VOIP, but encourages it. Commanders can talk to squad leaders, squad leaders talk to their members, very good order.

5. Online play will frequently (i'm talking multiple times an hour) give you "one of those gaming moments". You know, when your pulse quickens, and you feel like you're really in the game. My girlfriend can hear me screaming from my downstairs (things that would make a pornstar blush). I'm not even cognizant of it.

6. Helicopters with TV guided rockets. Nuf said.

7. Command and control. If a side plays without a commander, odds are they'll lose. If one plays with few (if any) experienced squad leaders, they'll lose. Very cool and unique feature.

Reasons you might not want this game:

1. This is the most insane system-hog of a game I've ever encountered...very frustrating for even relatively good systems.

I've had high hopes for games of all genres over the past 2-3 years, I've reviewed many of them, some favorably, but I think BF2 is the best action First Person Shooter on the market (and probably will be for a few years). One reason for that belief is the extraordinary hardware requirements it demands to truly perform. I started playing it on a 3.3MHZ w/ best Geforce card, and 1Meg of RAM. It lumbered, and the graphics were subpar compared to other FPS's. I now have a freakin super-computer (dual cards, 4Megs RAM) and it runs like a different game. When hardware catches up, the underlying value of this game will get more appreciation vs. present-day frustration.

I've logged at least 70 hours on this game, and I learn something new every night. So many layers to uncover, then combine. I think this game still has allot to show people. And, like each redesigned model of Mercedes, will prove its true beauty over time.

Enjoy,

Christian Hunter
Santa Barbara, California

The Best War Simulator

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 11
Date: November 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Want to play the best single player war game? Then go play Call of Duty 2. Want to play the best SWAT type tactical? Then go get Half-Life 2 and play Counter-Strike: Source which goes through periodic updates. Want to play the best multiplayer war game? Then before you even consider playing Day of Defeat: Source, go directly for Battlefield 2 instead which is certainly what you have been looking for and probably more. As a sequel to Battlefield 1942 (one of the best multiplayer games ever devised) it is well worthy of its predecessor's name but abandons its World War II premise for modern twenty-first century urban and rural warfare. As the game is built for multiplayer the single player campaigns do not do it justice. You really need to have a broadband connection and join a server to see the game the way it was meant to be played. Player statistics are monitored on-line and allow you to improve in rank and receive new weapons (unlocks). This makes it highly competitive. The same player classes are retained from BF1942 with some additional ones - sniper, machine gunner, anti-tank, medic, engineer, assault and support. The big bonus is the amount of new vehicles that the game has to offer, such as several types of planes, helicopters, tanks and cars. BF2 is one big CTF (capture the flags) with a huge array of photorealistic maps to play in. At player spawn you are given a wide choice of weapons and classes to choose from. Then you have the option of either working as a unit, driving a vehicle (that can also act as carriers) or just leaving your team behind and going on a solo mission frag-a-thon across a vast map (and these are some of the biggest maps ever made). Where BF1942 gave us the historical Pearl Harbor, Petersburg, German Forests, French Country, Operation Overlord, multiplayer style, BF2 goes for made-up non-historical global wars that have a futuristic atmosphere about them. Essentially you will play wars that have yet to be fought with the exception of several Iraq and Middle East type maps. It feels prophetic. The graphics are certainly heaps and bounds ahead of BF1942 giving us better textures, right down to photorealistic grass that you crawl through and branches on bushes that you can snipe behind. You can dash at very fast speeds until your stamina runs out. Explosions rock the world around you, can stun you and send pieces flying through the air. When a black hawk is downed in the town square it destroys everything around it on impact. Medics can revive dying team-mates. This is some of the best multiplayer entertainment you have ever seen. It is the biggest war game that people play online with a very large community (so large that you will find difficulty in choosing a login name for your ID) meaning plenty of 60 player (30/30) servers up and running and for you to join. All though you might just want to start running across a map shooting all around you, as in a real war this approach will probably just get you killed. The game itself takes days to grasp with patients that you must master. You must ensure that for bug free gaming to download and install the latest BF2 patch (currently 1.12 at this time of writing) which prevents crashing to desktop and has extra maps. Never use a CD-DVD crack with BF2 as they don't work. Instead either use the CD-DVD or learn how to load a BF2 mini-image. To be honest the quality of technical support is not the best (but does not make the game experience less) and could be a little clearer. The community is less responsive to answering questions and without something like IRC (internet relay chat) it can be difficult to find a channel of users who are willing to help you learn more about how to play the game. Another gripe is that this game has the hardest controller configuration that simply does not have to be as difficult as it is to program. BF1942 had this problem also. Sadly BF2 hasn't bothered to solve it. A major con is in the load times. High end systems take about two and a half minutes to load each map. The menu screens are not instant. Before Operation Flashpoint 2 brings us the best war multiplayer simulator ever conceived we still want to be able to play a multiplayer war game that will match the experience of Call of Duty 2 on a server with up to 64 players. BF2 does just that.

Pros:
- Multiplayer must-have.
- Fairly realistic simulation experience that you will play again and again.
- The only World War II simulation worth playing on-line right now.
- Good game engine. Solid Gaming.
- Replaces Operation Flashpoint and BF1942 and Day of Defeat: Source as the best on-line war simulation game.
- Really big player numbers of servers.
- Massive Maps.

Cons:
- Needs updating and this is not made clear on the EA website.
- Needs broadband.
- Steep learning curve.
- Long load up times.
- System resource heavy.

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5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: January 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is the best modern war game of all time and will be for the next few years. Please do not worry about the negative reviews because most of them are complaining about their computer's performance and not the gameplay itself. For those of you ready for a massive war online come and join us. Yes it takes a good computer to run it smoothly but you can get by with low settings. Just to let you know, I got 4 friends of mine, who always teased me about being a game freak, to play this game. And I got all four of them addicted to this game to the point where they are coming over all the time to play it, and asking me which computer to buy that will play this game smoothly. I've put over 100 hours of gameplay in, and I still look foward to playing it with my 4 friends every chance we get. I've even pulled an all nighter with this game and still played the next day. Thats 12 hours that went by like minutes because of intense battles. Just like real war where years seem like weeks.

Check Your System Twice

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: July 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Ok. I have only downloaded the demo and I already love the game. I'll buy it after I get the money. It is simply a great war game that I can only infer that my dad and I will both love. He's been looking for a good game like this for years, but this will be the first time it isn't of the Wal-Mart clearance rack. Now about system requirements.

Now some of you people are sitting there seriously complaining about how "you need a $800 graphics card and 2 gigs of RAM". 1.There are no $800 graphics cards unless you do SLI in which you buy two, sorry to burst your bubble and 2. No one needs 2 gigs of RAM unless you want do to video editing. I have an AMD Athlon XP 2500+ CPU(slightly overclocked), an overclocked GeForce 6200 256MB AGP 8x video card, which was only $92.50 may I add, and 1 gig of RAM, although I know I could have ran this game with my old 512MB.

Now I'm not saying you can run it with a crappy computer, but all you really need is up-to-date technology. Go out and buy the cheapest and most recent graphics card like I did(avoid TC) and that will solve half your problems. Most of you probaly don't need to do that. You do need to have a graphics card that's in the Radeon 9000 series or the Geforce 5 series to run the game and 512MB of RAM with most CPUs not including Intel Pentium 3s or certain Athlons.

So most of you could run the game at low settings(not that you want to play it then), but caution. If you are running any integrated graphics(ESPECIALLY Intel's which are horrific) or if you're running an ATI video card that's not too recent, you might want to reconsider. The reason I mention ATI is because Battlefield 2 is built on Nvidia so not only does it take advantage of many Nvidia things, but it's not made for ATI therefore giving ATI people dissadvanteges.

Don't get it wrong though. This is a fabulous game. Frankly, some of you should even find it a good reason for a computer upgrade. Because if you can't run this, forget every game that follows it. That includes Age of Empires fans, or people who are waiting for other games to come out. Hope this helps.

Game of The Year

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: August 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I'd like to start off saying that I'm a HUGE fan of the Battlefield series and this game takes it to the next level.

First off, the graphics--WOW. The textures, shadowing, lighting, and weapons all look so real. Also, the explosions look phenonominal. It's amazing when gunfire hails all around and explosions everywhere, it's really great.

The sound is--as always--fantastic. The gunfire, explosions, vehicles driving, everything. It sounds amazing when buildings are being assualted by Harrier jets and Artillary. The sound effects really immerse you into the entire game. The music, is...erm...OKAY. The menu music is okay, but not as good as the original.

Gameplay wise, this is where the game really shines. All the weapon kits are equally balenced and not overpowering. My favorite kit is Spec Ops. But, anyway, the gameplay rocks. There are snipers nested ontop of beautiful mountains and urban enviremonts, waiting for prey. Anti-tanks prowl the streets, searching for any sign of vehcles. There are over 30 vehicles in the game and handle brillaintly. The jets are the best in my opinion. There's honestly nothing like speeding through the skys in a jet and ejecting out and parachuting to the enemy's base with a machine gun, tearing them apart. Everything is well balenced, which is needed.

The multy-player has been greatly improved. 64 players splitting into 6 squads of deadly soldiers trained to dish out death. As the commander of each squad, you can deal out orders and use artialrry strikes. You can also tell your squad to attack and defend postitions to your will.

All in all, this game re-defines the genere once more. The graphics were improved, the gameplay better, and the sound beefed up. I think this game is definately a candidate for Game of the Year. Everything is executed brillaintly, start to finish. The specs are steep, but it's DEFINATELY worth it. I give this game mu higest reccomendation with a 5 out of 5.

Stunning Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: November 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is an amazing piece of work, it requires stategy, great shooting skill, and many more things. Battlefield is a modern warfare game, where two armies fight for control points of stategic value. The armies are equiped with differet weapons, and vehicles and must fight deadly battles, ranging from street warfare to open fields. The game requires stategy because you must know which contorl point to attack next, or when it is best to just defend a valued spawn point. The players must use vehicle to dominate the battlefiled or be infantry and sneak into an enemy base. However despite all this you need a VERY good computer to play this game, as well as broadband. If you do not have these requiremtns you cant play the game. Single Player is fun for awhile and lets you explorer the great maps, but to really enjoy this game you must play it online. Anyone who has a good computer should buy this game, it is blend beautifully together to to give you one of the greatest gaming expierences for the PC.

Pros:
-Balanced maps
-Deep, thoughtlful gameplay
-Difficult (on hard setting in singleplayer) and online
-Fun, non-linear objectives
-Different classes are unique
-Commander who leads your team (only good if you have a good commander)
-Squads with communications via headsets
-Mulitplayer
-Graphics, draw distance
Cons
-Artillery is usually frustrating
-Single Player gets kind of boring
-Bad commanders make it hard to win vs. a good commander

BEST war game of the Year. Unbelievable intense

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: October 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

BF2 is the best war game of the year. Thanks for the production team and thanks EA bring this game into alive. I played many many online war game but this one is the most intense battle fighting game. I know some video card doesn't support this game but mind is OK. I Have PNY verto Geforce FX 5600 ultra and I can play the maximum resolution with medium setting. It showed very very beautiful graphic and you don't really need to spend $ 500 USD for the super high end video card for the maxium setting. I thinks all Gefore FX video card will be OK to play this game.

BF2 the best game out there

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: July 07, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Let me start with saying that i dont' write reviews often but BattleField 2 is worth praise. It's an amazing game! Ranks, awards and bonus weapons drive you forward towards excellence...yes killing people is fun but this added third dimension of promotions and awards is awesome. As a first sargeant you'll dream of being a General.

The vehicles are extremely balanced and so much fun, the maps and constant action will overwhelm you. Squads and commanders have also really added a realistic intelligence side to the game.

The only flaw is the high requirements, which WILL require an investment, but hey what's new? People need to STOP complaining about it! Doesn't it make it sense that the the best game out there would require Good Hardware? Makes sense to me.

Better, EA Games has hit the ball!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: July 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Even since 2002 Battlefield had it's start with Battlefield 1942. It had great online play as well as a historical background (They added grey clouds on the Ohama Beach map). After this release 2003 had more suprises. The expansion packs Road to Rome and Secret Weapons of WWII were a big hit in gaming! And Secret Weapons introduced new real life weapons, not alieninated weapons. A year later Battlefield Vietnam came and had excellent gaming! As well as 70's music to play during combat. And that wasn't in any of the games at all (same with BF2). Finally after A year and a half, this game was released! Battlefield 2 has a 21st century combat style with new weapons and new foes. I think part of the battles is about the War in Iraq. There has been many games about the War in Iraq, but it isn't as historical. It's fiction rather than facts. But this game stands tall while games like Halo, Doom 3, etc, crouch down.

The gameplay and the online play is excellent! You can choose the following classes: Scout, Assault, Medic, Special Forces, and engeener. And you can choose different weapons! But this game also has vehicles, step into a tank, helicopter, jet, etc. And use sidearms such as anti-tank, snipers, machine guns, and shotguns. And each side gets grenades, pistol, and a knife. By the way, the AI in this game is better, this game is very much like a cross between RTS, Republic Commando, and Battlefield! Squad leaders are neat! They can give commands and give some tatical actions to victory!

Now since my computer is a very powerful one, I didn't have to change the graphic card (Hehehehe) [...]

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5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 36
Date: August 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

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