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A simple review

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 13 / 22
Date: November 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Ok, first off this is a great game...it really is. However, just like BF2 when it came out, it was buggy as sin. This is no different. I have so far only been able to run a stable game for about 10 - 15 minutes on select maps before the game crashes to desktop. And no, i assure you before you assume, its not my hardware. Hardware wise, i'm top of the line. However I did hear a rumor about BF2 pulls almost 1gb of RAM when set on high. But like I said, great game (as far as ive played it.) Just wait a patch or two to purchase it.

Can your computer handle it soldier?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 17
Date: November 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

First off this is the BEST first person shooter game on the market right now. I have a computer with 2gigs of low latency ram and a rocking $600.00 512mb graphics card and my machine still gets very hot, hot, hot. It runs perfectly on my machine and is one of the funnest games I have to date. The minimum requirements of this game to run are a joke you will HATE it because it will be very crashy. I recommend at least 1 gig of ram and a 256 video card and no less than 2.0 on your processor.

Average Content - 5 Star Headache

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 90 / 94
Date: November 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The content of this release, while not top notch, does add some life to the already popular BF2 game. The sum total of the release adds new soldier classes, maps and vehicles. It does not (as many had hoped) patch a multitude of bugs in the original game. Many of the vehicles while fun at first really turn out to be nothing more than a novelty as they are not as effective as most vehicles included in the original game. Also, a blessing to some and a disappointment for others, there are no airplanes in this game. Still many die hard fans of the game won't be without this (or any other expansion pack), but the casual player can easily do without.

One tactic that EA has employed to try to keep you from doing without is that Special Forces owners are able to play on the original BF2 servers using the new goodies in the expansion pack. Many feel that this gives an unfair advantage as Special Forces players who are able to blind others with flash bangs and use other new tactics. It is a questionable marketing ploy as people who have paid for the original game must now decide if they must purchase the expansion to remain competitive. This has been a point of contention in the BF2 community and has been a constant complaint on many internet forums.

Beyond the marketing of this product, the real problems surround the complete swarm of bug reports and problem installations. Reports of computers that ran the original fine but now only get 15 frames per second are not uncommon. Also after install, a 280 megabyte patch must be downloaded (4 hours from EA with a broadband connection). This patch then decompresses to an unheard of 3 gigabytes. Many people have reported of problems with the install of this patch as the decompression doesn't always work properly leaving the user with even bigger problems than the game not running. All these problems smell of a product that was rushed out the door for the Christmas season. Quite a disappointment as the title really had unlimited potential.

Summary: A bit of new life to an already popular game but not worth the problems that many have had. You may find it worth a look... if you can get it too run.

STAY AWAY

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 16 / 28
Date: November 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

What kind of crap is this. EA's developers are too F*ck!ng stupid to create an installer that can utilize any drive. Instead it only looks to your C drive and will not allow you to install the game/patches if there is not atleast 3Gigs there. I have over 400Gig free space on my system spread across multiple partitions but its not in the system partition so I can't install this game I just puchased. EA, Digital Illusions.... YOU SUCK, why don't you go to the local high schools and find some real programmers.

If you are even contemplating this game make sure you have the required disk space on your C drive for install, this is above and beyond the actual install of the game and not necessarily where you installed Battlefield 2 or where you will install the expansion.

I'm sure the game itself is fun if you EVER get to play it, as for myself I will be returning the game to my local EB store tomorrow and writting an equally if not harsher Email to EB support.

Buggier than the original

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 58 / 65
Date: November 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Believe it or not, Special Forces is in worse shape than Battlefield 2 was when it was released.

EA and Dice have been slow to address showstopping bugs in the original game, and against my better judgement, I decided to give SF a shot thinking that maybe some problems would have been addressed.

Nope.

Many people are experiencing a lot of difficulty just INSTALLING the game, let alone playing it. If you are able to get the game installed (and I eventually was), you're likely to find yourself up against a host of other problems including severe frame-rate drops and performance issues, even if the original game ran well performanse-wise (which mine did).

It would be nice if companies like EA and Dice were held more accountable for shoddy product they release to their fans, especially considering that the majority of their fanbase consists of financially-strapped college and high-school students.

This is awful.

Best war game but not everyone can afford that

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 13
Date: December 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

BF2 and BF2 SF are the best FPS war game with fun multiplayer. Let me tell you my story about playing this game. I was using Geforce 5600 ultra with 1 Gig ram on P4 3.2Ghz machine. It was set at medium setting with 800x600 resolution and no lag on mutiplayer. Then I decided to upgrade my video card to Geforce 6800GT 256MB. The graphic was set at highest and resolution also highest with no problem when play single player game. But when I tried multiplayer game, it was laggy, especially the night mission with night vision on. The graphic was still very good but with occasional stuttering and I heard my hard drive making busy noise. I know what happened. I loaded the window xp task manager to see the RAM usage history indicated it was 1.2 GB while I was running multiplayer with 64 player big map. Guys! BF2 really needs more than 1 GiG to play the online 64 player map. I purchased 1 more Gig Ram and put them on..Geee. it is very very very..damn smooth multiplayer gaming experience very the top, highest graphic turn on. Now I am experiencing highest BF2 graphic with smoothest, fastest game play. It is truth and it is my real experience. Go to get another Gig of ram. it is about $ 78-89 USD now everywhere on 2x512mb dual channel PC3200 modules. Of course, may be it is still expensive for some people, but this is the way if you really want to play BF2 with the best graphic. 2 Gig Ram is the future PC game play. Time to upgrade and make it ready for the next coming year.

Love BF2, hate this......

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: December 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

All I can say is the content is very cool. Like BF2 but better with more equipment toys to play with, however the playability of this game is on average awful.

I have a 64-bit Athlon XP4000, which is one of the fastest CPU's around at the time of writing this. I have 2 GB of RAM and a GForce 6800GT video card. The video card was released about 1 year ago and still is respectable and I guessing here but probably on par with or better than the average gamer has. Typically I run BF2 at 1024 x 768 resolution and all video set to medium to get a good fast frame per second (FPS) level. FPS is king when going toe to toe in a gun fight. And BF2 plays great. Of course you have to have a good server, anything under 100 ms ping and it plays great.

Special ops plays anywhere from 3 FPS to maybe 1/3 of the typical FPS I saw in BF2. And worst yet it varies a lot, and no it's not the server and the task manager shows only BF2 hogging the CPU. Interesting though that there are two different BF2 SF's related exe's running now. I believe there where only one exe running in BF2. Maybe they multithreaded this sucker for the dual CPU's?

I've played a lot of different servers and it is consistantly bad compared to BF2. This reminds me of that other turkey EA released, battlefield Vietnam, boy was that game bad all the way around.

This game could be good if they fixed it but why buy it game they shouldn't have released. Wait until you start hearing that they have fixed all of the problems with this game before going near it. I wish I did, I loved BF2 and now I don't even want to play anymore because it is AWFUL! And why should I spend my free time looking for potiential fixes for all the issues, that I time I used to game with. It's not my job to fix their bad programming.

Good game if you can play it

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: December 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I've been a of the battlefield series since the BF:1942 wake island demo came out. I've played BF2 since it came out pretty constinetly playing several hours a day during the summer. I saw many nasty bugs that put a major bump in gaming. Server browser didn't work,random crashes,hard to install patches, exploiters.

I still however love the bf2 series of games as they are very fun and encourage team work. Vehicles are a blast as many fps don't even have vehicles.

I installed this game today right after receiving it in hopes of playing. Turns out as I read the forums that the account server is offline and I can't play online. Maybe I'll try out the single player :(.

Bugs and Usability Gaps Ruin a Great Game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 16 / 17
Date: December 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is deeply disappointing. While gameplay itself has been good, the quality of DICE's game menus and selection screens for multiplayer makes it almost unplayable. The GUI of this part of the game is completely counter-intuitive, appears to have been an afterthought, and does more to prevent players from joining games than it does to actually support them.

As an example the game often fails to load simply when you boot it up, sitting uselessly at the "Connecting To Account Server" screen during initial log in. Bear in mind, you're not logging into multiplayer here... the game needs to connect to the server so that you can even play it on your own machine against the computer, and often fails to do so!

Once in, finding a game can be impossible, or at least infuriating. The game often loads completely (takes forever), begins comparing data with the server, and breaks with no error message, returning you to the game selection screen. This process will not be unfamiliar to those of you who formerly owned Commodore Vic-20s with the Cassette Tape storage system.

DICE should be ashamed at the inattention to detail and overall poor quality of this software.

The hard drive space problem.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 12
Date: December 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This could have been one the greatest FPS of all time but inattention to detail and some of the worst programming I have ever encountered spoil all the fun as you see in most reviews here.

The installation is atrocious. I have seen 13 year old script kiddies do better with Visual Basic. As has been mentioned, if you have less than 3 Gig, yes GIG on your C: drive the game will not install, nor the patch that you are required to download and run.

Fortunately for us, because the DICE programmers are such morons, it is easy to trick the installer. Go to Start/Run type in regedit and then click OK. Regedit will open. Go down to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
In the right hand window you will see the name ProgramFilesDir with the value data C:\Program Files. Right click it, select modify and change it to a drive that you have plenty of room on like E:\Program Files and then click OK. Run the installer then immediately change the data value back to C:\Program Files.

Much easier and quicker than moving files around or buying Partition Magic to change the partition size.

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