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Nice Graphics - a Few Flaws

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 36 / 38
Date: October 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Battlefield 2 - Modern Combat is a great arcade-style fast paced action game. Just be prepared for some odd graphic issues while you play.

The gameplay involves a squad of soldiers moving through a well laid out cityscape. You can see the dirt on the window panes, the signs along the road, the icicles on the rooflines. You play in various weather conditions and deal with fire, smoke, and other environmental distractions.

It's amazing that we have gotten so "spoiled" that we take all of that for granted, and can complain about small anomalies. For example, we found it greatly amusing that when you shoot a jeep, it blows into a million tiny shards and vanishes completely. We also laughed when you shot an enemy soldier and apparently your bullets are "bone-dissolving" because they collapse like a jello-creature.

Still, that hardly takes away from the real gameplay. Your squad each has different weapons and capabilities, and in an ability I found REALLY cool, you can instant-teleport from one to the other as long as you can establish a sight-line. It was like having cosmic vampiric abilities. Also, to add to replayability, there are a ton of special medals and bonus points you can get, for things like achieving the longest hot-swap, doing long jeep jumps, and destroying all of the road signs.

There is some strategy involved here. You can't just run down the road blasting and expect to survive. You have to take cover, move along carefully and take your shot when it's clear. That being said, you don't have the squad level of command that some other games feature. You can't get an overhead view and set your guys up in formation, planning things out at a "manager" level. Your guys have reasonably good AI and act as best they can. If you want one of them to do something in particular, you have to "take them over".

The soundtrack is reasonably good - it gives a underlying 'movie feel' to the game without really intruding on gameplay. The soldier chatter that goes on is on one hand done reasonably well, but on the other hand it gets tiresome after a while. I'd almost like the ability to toggle between 'chatty' comrades at the beginning of the game down to 'pensive and quiet' ones near the end of the game.

This game of course has an online component to it. It's funny how some people feel online is the "only way" to play a game - while thousands of other people don't have online connections and honestly don't want them. I've played a ton of online XBox games, but also love playing solo. In any case, if you WANT to play online, you have to make sure your net connection as tuned as possible. The game supports 24 simultaneous players so as you can imagine the potential for lag is incredible. Find players that have top notch connections and make sure yours is as high speed as possible as well.

Well recommended!

EA needs to fix bugs for online play

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 10 / 12
Date: November 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I'm sure a lot of people are buying this game to play online. As of the first week of the release, there are so many problems with the online functionality. Problems logging in, "cannot connect to EA", horrible horrible lags (for eg. when you're running or driving, every few seconds you get bounced back as if you're running into a trampoline), getting booted out of the server, server disconnect, etc. As you can imagine, it can get quite frustrating playing online. At least EA is fixing this problem at this moment. Luckily, the single player campaign missions are fun to play. The single player game will keep me satisfied until the online function gets more stable.

Great multiplayer but crappy single player.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: April 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is one of the most fun games I've ever played. For me it really rivals Halo 2. Most people would probably disagree with that statement but it's true for me. First let me just start out by saying that the single player is just a way to waste time while your wasting time. It's so stupid and annoying. You basically play as one guy at a time while your stupid squad runs into oncoming fire. The only command you have over them is to tell a nearby soldier to get into the gunner seat of your vehicle. Anything more complicated than that and you will have to switch to him by the "Hotswap" feature. TO do that you have to be in direct sight of him anyway. Really not that fun if your used to games like ghost recon and rainbow 6.

The real reason that you want this game is for the online play which is great. If you don't have xbox live then your going to pay around thirty dollars for about eight hours of annoyance for the single player. That's if you have to repeat missions over and over because you fail. The multiplayer is where this game shines by far. It's so much fun and I'll tell you why. When I play Halo 2 online there is always some punk who takes the gun that I want and am good with and then I get owned because I have a crappy gun. In this you get to pick what guns you want before you respawn after death. You can't have a custom set you have to pick a soldier class. There's assult which is basically an M16 whith an m203 grenade laucher and tou get a 9 mil pistol and flash and frag grenades. Then ther's the sniper which has a sniper rifle (obviously) a silenced pistol which is basically worthless unless you are fighting another sniper close range. You also get smoke grenades and a laser designator for taking out vehicles and helicopters and what not. Perhaps the most important tool is the GPS unit which allows you to reveal enemy locations on your radar for a couple of seconds. It also reveals them to your teamates as well. Then there is the special ops class which is just the assult class with silenced weapons C4 and a knife. Then the engineer class which has a shotgun, rocket launcher, land mines, a blow torch for repairing vehicles. Then lastly there is the support class which has the SAW machine gun a medical auto injector(mobile first aid kit) and he can call in mortar strikes.

The other thing that makes this game so much fun is that you don't have to practice at it forever to be good. All you have to do is think. This game is not as much about how well you can aim as it is about strategy and teamwork. If you have played FPS's before you'll have no problem whith this game at all. Especially if you like military shooters.

Another thing that is great is the vehicles. No matter what map you play vehicles are an integral part. More so on maps with helicopters. If you have someone who can decently pilot the thing the advantage is huge. You can fill up the passenger seats and fly over a high otherwise unaccessible spot and let your buddies parachute out. Another great part. If you find yourself hurling towards Earth then press the black button and pop out your parachute. It makes the game a little less real but it makes it a lot more fun.

The ranking works like this:Three things are required for getting a promotion. You need medals for doing feats such as killing a certain nuber of people without dying or healing so many of your buddies in one life and things of that nature. You also need points which you get by killing enemies, capturing flags, taking over flag posts etc. The third thing you need is PPH which I'm not sure what that stands for but the more you win the more you get so don't suck if you want to pick up a rank.

The bottom line is this. If you like military shooters that are semi arcadish and you have xbox live then this is the game you're looking for. If you don't have xbox live then you're wasting your money. Have fun.

Battlefield 2: Modern Combat, A must buy for any war game enthusiast!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: October 31, 2005
Author: Amazon User

First of all, I want to clear up any issues regarding the "game freeze" during online play. EA has fixed this problem as of Friday October 28, 2005. They have added an auto-update that takes 10 seconds to load onto your Xbox, and it will allow you to play online without any freezing issues. Before this auto-update, I was only able to play online for a mere 10-15 minutes before the game froze on me. I played the other day for a solid 3 hours without any problems. EA has responded to this problem and I commend them for their quick response to this issue.

Now, my review on Battlefield 2: Modern Combat for the Xbox. I want to start off by saying that this is a great game. The award winning PC version was incredible and the Xbox version is not exactly par with the PC, but it will definitely do.

Now if your like me, it's all about the online play. The campaign mode in this game is a lot of fun, but its not the sole reason to add this game to your cart. The online play is simply amazing. The battlefields are huge, with alleyways, buildings, train crates, bridges, rivers, and ditches to use for stealthy attacks against the enemy. Walking from one end of a map to the other, takes an eternity, but this factor only adds to the realism of an actual battlefield.

The graphics are fantastic to say the least! This isn't Socom people, and you quickly come to this conclusion, when you see the graphics for yourself. I'm still impressed every time I play this title. It looks very good. The Sound Effects are top notch, and the music adds a cinematic element to the gameplay experience that I kind of like. The music will even change to a more intense rhythm when an enemy appears on your screen. And if music isn't your thing while playing a war game, then you can always turn it off in the settings menu.

The ability to choose a different soldier before you respawn is a nice feature. You can choose from Assault, Sniper, Spec Ops, Engineer or Support. Assault gives you an assault rifle with a grenade launcher, pistol, Fragmentation and smoke grenades. Sniper gives you a sniper rifle, pistol, laser target Designator, (for missile strikes), GPS unit, (to spot hiding enemies), and fragmentation grenades. Spec Ops gives you a silenced assault rifle, silenced pistol, explosives, combat knife (for close quarter combat), and stun grenades, (which temporarily blinds the enemy). Engineer will give you an automatic shotgun, blowtorch repair kit, (for repairing vehicles), pistol, rocket launcher, and vehicle mines. And last but not least Support will give you a M249 which is a heavy machine gun with lots of ammo, an auto-injector (field medicine for yourself or other soldiers), pistol, and of course fragmentation grenades.

During combat, there are a number of ways to reach the enemy. You can fly in a chopper or take a ride in a jeep, tank or even a boat. 30+ vehicles to choose from. My personal favorite is taking a transport helicopter. One pilots the aircraft while 2 sit inside with the ability to fire whichever weapon they have, and 2 others operate huge 7.62mm machine guns on the side of the chopper. Want to get out? Jump out and deploy your parachute while picking off the enemy from a hundred feet off the ground. C'mon, this is great stuff!

If you're looking for a great war game, this is it. Battlefield 2 requires skill with the arsenal above, knowledge of the maps, and the ability to be a team player. Walking into a highly guarded area by yourself with a sniper rifle, would not exactly be your finest moment. This game will force you to be a team player.

I only have 2 complaints with this game. What kind of review would this be if I didn't have any constructive criticism? First of all, Battlefield 2 will not allow you to invite your friends over to join you in an online battle. Halo 2 had this, and I definitely miss this feature. Second, When playing an optimatch battle set for low experienced players, I found myself playing alone. The only way to get a massive 24 player game going, is if you choose a quickmatch. So if you're new to Battlefield 2, you're going to have a rough time playing against experienced players.

Besides that, Battlefield 2, with its large and highly detailed 10 online multiplayer maps, 50+ weapons, 30+ vehicles, and 24 players online... This game is a must buy for any war game enthusiast. Purchase this game today, it's a monster of a game and you're going to love it.

Exceeded expectations but sucks at the same time.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: October 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This could be the best Xbox game, EVER! Unlike the previous comments, the pictures and textures are magnificent to behold! The maps are HUGE with great detail. The controls feel tight and on target. This is how the game exceeded my expectations.

How it sucks? I bought this for online play ONLY. I could care less about single player. I played the Demo to death since July and that was only one map (my CD has faded). So, just imagine my excitement when the game came out and has so many more maps.

Only problem is it's almost impossible to play online. The game freezes during matches, lags and then boots you out of the room, or you can't sign in at all.

Also, my stats are missing half the time. I've noticed that players are racking up points in the thousands but how are they on long enough to to that??? I belong to three different gamer groups (two of which are GeezerGamers and 2Old2Play) and no one can get into or stay in a game!

And, I was excited about the support for Clans. There are clans but you can't play clan matches. HUH???????????? Unless they upgrade the game, there's nowhere to make your own room like in Halo2 or PGR2. How are we supposed to practice for the big tournament??? Not to mention no one can get on or gets booted every few minutes!

Like I said, this game could be the greatest game ever for the Xbox........ but only if EA gets their act together fast.

We beta tested the you know what out of the demo for you guys for FREE! Don't get me wrong, the demo was awesome and we loved it. But we would love this more. We expected better from EA than we're getting. And that's a shame.

Great game and yes there are a few flaws

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I just bought this game and I have to say EA made one great and solid game. There are a few I mean FEW bugs, but that's what Xbox live is for. You can download bugs fixes when they are released... or if they are any who... the campaign on this game is a little short, which is understandable, since the game was designed for online play.
EA really focused on the potential for a battlefield game on Xbox live not for a campaign even though that would be nice, priorities are always first.
This game has a really strong game play along with a wide variety of "kit" weapons.
I'd have to say, in my opinion this games online play is better than halo2's because you are now playing with 24 people online and your can hold more weapons, o and THERE ARE NO MODDERS!!! YAY!
These bugs that some people have mentioned, you would have to know where they are and exactly how to do it, kind of like the halo2 glitches.

IF you have Xbox Live its well worth (...) and if you don't well that up to you, your friend has live well move into his/her house! Lol

Not much

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: January 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Take the amazing PC Battlefield 2, subtract the keyboard and mouse that make a FPS game a dream to play, throw in a boring single player campaign, downgrade the graphics, take the heart of the Battlefield games, it's online play, and fill it with bugs and bump the number of players in a game from 64 down to 24 and you get Battlefield Modern Combat. I don't think I really need to say more but I will. I didn't have extreamly high hopes for this game in the first place when I saw the number of players that can fit into a multiplayer game. I was mainly hoping that BFMC would have bot battles without mission objectives to worry about to go along with the campaign. Well, there are no bot battles. Yes, I have played a multiplayer match in BFMC, but it still doesn't fell much like the PC Battlefield games before it. When you think about how difficult it is to get XBOX Live and the fairly small amount of XBOX owners that actually have it, you realize that online multiplayer isn't enough to support a game on it's own. You need good singleplayer or split screen modes too. EA seems to have passed this up and left this games players with a smaller online multiplayer, no split screen games, and a really boring campaign mode. In the single player campaign, you go through multiplayer maps with scripted events and mission objectives. Only, it's not enough like a multiplayer map to generate the same amount of fun. The enemys don't wander the map and act like team players or even attack enemys at will. They ONLY show up where they need to be, detracting from the realisim and overall fun. You'll know what I mean when you start to walk through a town after not being able to find any action and have 20 enemy soldiers spawn right out of thin air and shoot you to pieces. The graphics have also been brought down. The explosions are not nearly as nice looking as BF2. Now, I realize that the XBOX doesn't have the right amount of hardware as a computer that can run BF2, but they could at least have had pieces of the vehicles go flying when you blow up a tank or helicopter. Instead, the vehicle just disappears in a strange cloud of smoke and sparks. No chunks of the vehicle, no fragments of metal, just... POOF. You also cannot select a unit type upon spawing. Instead, you "hotswap" to another soldier on the battlefield. You can do this at will during the mission, (and it means the game doesn't end every time you die) but it makes it hard to get the types of units to the place they're needed most as the nearest soldier to hotswap to might be at the completly opposite end of the map. If you have XBOX Live and aren't expecting a reveloution in the XBOX Live FPS, you might as well get this game (even though there are still plenty of online FPS games for the XBOX that are much more fun). If you don't have Live or aren't interested in playing this game on it, don't even bother. The Battlefield games weren't ment to be a single player game in the first place.

DO NOT BUY THIS GAME....

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 12
Date: November 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

....if you care about online play. I know that some reviewers have said that EA has fixed their online problems; unfortunately this is not entirely true, depending on what you feel that the online problems are. Some of the freezing issues have been eradicated, but the overall interface is typical EA - worthless at best.

I am a mature gamer (30+) and regularly play with a group of friends, it is next to impossible to get them all into one game, and once you do, you inevitably get a bunch of screaming kids, racists, etc because EA didn't have the foresight to add a "friend only" option?!?!?!

Perhaps I have just been spoiled with Halo 2's party/lobby system, I don't know what is wrong with EA, but they insist on managing the online portion of their gaming. Have they not proved it time and time again that their Live interface is one of the worst in online gaming? In one corner, you have Bungie with a tried and true menu/lobby/game selection UI... and on the other side, you have the mess that EA passes off as UI. So why do it? Is it because they don't want their XBL corporate identity to be linked as a little sibling of Bungie, or a copycat? They need to get over it, the comparison is still being made, only in a MUCH more unfriendly light.

It is truly a shame that what could have been a fantastic game is doomed to be a colossal failure due to a horrid user interface... way to go EA... again...

DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY IF YOU WANT TO PLAY ONLINE

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: October 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

OK, so there I was, eagerly awaiting the release of BF2 for Xbox. I'd played the demo, played on computer, it was all pretty cool, and it can only get better by the time it releases right? Well, nope. It seems like an ok single player game, but who really likes to do that? Everyone wants to play online. Except in this game, you really can't. All that has been happening to me so far, is that I have problems signing on, I lose my connection halfway through a game, and it when I can play, it doesn't keep my stats. All in all, if you want a decent single player game, this might be for you. If you want to play online, send me 50 bucks, I'll send you Halo 2, and we will both be happy. Until EA fixes their glitches (I understand that @#$$ happens, but I don't want to pay 50 bucks for it) I will be thinking of returning this totally worthless multiplayer game, and playing Halo 2.

Very long review

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: November 08, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Ok if your going to listen to anyone listen to me. First of all lets start out with single player. This game they actually made real missions instead of the other battlefields but what I was disapointed with is you cant do the good old take over spawns in single players. What you can do however is raise in ranks on single player but it doesnt offer you a choice of difficulty so the game is rather easy. Not to mention that its very short i beat it in a day. Dont look for any thrill in single player and dont even look at the game sitting on the shelf if you dont have xbox live.

xbox live is wear it begins. you will not find any other game with better servers. This can hold 24 people with no lag. Of course sometimes there is but not bad at all. They also used the same ranking system online as in single player. Huge online support with tons of things to look at like earning medals ribbons and look at leaderboards. create clans and send messages to friends. The game offers 2 modes, conquest and capture the flag. Conquest is just like the old capture spawn points thing which they should have added to single player as well. Capture the flag is self explanatory. You get almost no veichles to choose from and they all look the same. They had jets in pc version but took that away for xbox. You do get helicopters and hummers and also cars and pickup trucks. yes cars and pickup trucks! What were you thinking ea! You think taking away a jet and replacing it with pickuptrucks and cars is okay!? Did i mention when you blow them up they completely disapear into millions of pieces!? maybe i should also add that every gun looks exactly the same!? the assualt rifle is exactly the same as the smg except the smg has a silencer on it!? All in all gameplay is fantastic and is a must to buy if you have xbox live. Dont listen to the other people trust me your friend.

Good game but they could have added more stuff into the game and it could easily be game of the century. Yes it is very much better then halo or any of that mumbo jumbo.

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