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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.

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.

Battlefield 2 - Special Powers are required to play this game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 11 / 15
Date: January 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Once you go through the installation process you are likely to be greeted by a hoard of new problems, as if you are being punched in the face be every oompa-loompa in Willy Wonkas Chocolate Factory.

From my experiance, it seems like you have to install the original BF2, Special Forces, and the 1.12 Patch in a specific Order, otherwise you'll never be able to connect online. Further more, the game crashes at least once per hour, despite the fact that the computer it is running on NEVER crashes on anything else.

You may think that EA Support would be happy to assist you, but they are the single most dissappointing aspect of the BF2 fiasco. The support is extremely rude, speak like they are chewing on a bag of marbles, and are about as computer literate as my 6 month old puppy. With that said the EA support will blame someone else for their poor quality programming so don't waste your time trying to call them. If you want a refund of your money then you're better of hunting for treasure in the Carribean because they will not give out refunds, instead they will send you a replacement coaster with a Battlefield 2 label on it.

Save yourself the trouble and buy a game like F.E.A.R. or Half-Life 2. Battlefield 2 is about the stupidest single player game you can get, and since getting online is a near impossibility with BF2 you will be likely to share the same opinion as I do.

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.

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.

No One Home

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: January 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Game had a lot of installation problems. No help from EA cust. support. Tried install on a different system. Same problems - still no replies from EA cust. support but they did find the time to put my ticket on 'resolved'.

Found fix for installation trouble on an online gaming forum. Now I wonder why I bothered. Game is very buggy but it looks fantastic in the screenshots.

Does Not Work!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: December 31, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Well...after I installed the game, I spent an hour trying to play the new missions online. I finally gave up and decided to write a review on why you ***Should Not Buy This Game****. I was unable to get it to work. BTW, in all of my attmepts to try and play one of the new missions, I decided to try and play one of the old maps. Worked just fine. So, it has to be the new version. I guess I just have to wait a few months for the patch to come out for it to be able to work.

For those of you who received this for Christmas and have not been able to get it to work yet, I have a conforting thought for you. This whole thing looks to me as though it was rushed into production so that it would be in store shelves by Christmas, that way the CEOs of EA and Dice could receive big year end bonuses from all of the Holiday sales.

I don't know about you, but I could care less if the game works, just so long as few people get rich. The fact that I had to work about 3 hours to earn the money to pay for it, doesn't matter to me. Yeah Right!

successors live down to the low standard set by BF2

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: March 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I strongly recommend against buying this game, this expansion pack or any of the "booster packs." They're poorly designed and badly programmed. That's not the drama you're looking for.

Just bought the Euro Trash "booster pack" to this and BF2.

Available only on line and via the EA Downloader, the booster pack was easy to install. All *three* of the new maps showed up immediately in the Single Play maps list.

But none of them work in either single or on-line play: The maps have been installed and are recognized by the game, but not by the servers (either on-line or locally). Typical EA incompetence exacerbated by a uniquely EA inept user interface.

Since the booster pack successfully installed, the EA downloader won't re-install. I can hardly wait for the technical support staff to suggest I uninstall both of the BF2s, then reinstall both the original and the expansion pack, then reinstall both of the patches, and then re-download the downloader so it can re-install the booster pack.

Three hours of installation for every hour of on-line fun!

Must escape! Warn others!

Don't take a chance

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: April 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is very buggy. You may or may not be able to play it due to serious errors due to memory management. Patches routinely fail requiring a complete uninstall or manual uninstall with a registry edit. It took me 20+ hours of tweaking to get the patches to work and after patching I got a memory.dll sanity check error (no I'm not kidding, google it) and it still will not work. The thing that really gets me is that my system FAR exceeds the minimum requirement, in fact it exceeds the recommended requirements and my video card is spicifically named as supported.

LAG LAG CHOP CHOP Thanks EA you rock!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: February 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

OMG this game is frustrating... I run a P4 3.0 Ghz, 1 GB Ram, Geforce 6600GT (well above the suggested specs)... I can never get one full hour of gaming before it starts doing some neverending MATRIX maneuvers on me (remember the ultra slow-mo bullet scenes in the movie?)... This game is thus unplayable...

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