Customer Reviews
Not for the casual gamer 
2008-02-23
If you are a casual gamer like me who is only looking to spend a hour per day playing a game, Battlefield 2 is definitely not for you. As a previous reviewer said, on paper, this game sounds fantastic, but in reality, playing this game will make you want to pull out your hair in frustration.
The game play has a very high learning curve, as you try in vain to learn the numerous elements of the game that you must master before successfully engaging in battle. These include learning to shoot with guns that are somewhat erratic and imprecise in comparison to other pure first person shooter games, and learning to fire missiles by factoring in the time it takes to hit a fast moving object.
Yes, it's all quite a bit to take in the beginning, and it stays that way well into your first week with this game. Unless you commit numerous hours (read 1000s) towards playing this game, you will stay a perennial "noob", and will constantly be taken down by your more experienced opponents in every painful manner imaginable.
And speaking of opponents, a lot of these players will likely have invested enormous amount of time and effort into getting as good as they are. Their figures are reflected in game statistics that can only be described as superfluous in the amount of worthless numbers they contain. If you are an expert gamer who enjoys pouring 1000s of hours into a game that has no relevance outside it's virtual enclosure, and like to obsess about stats that are equally meaningless, then you might enjoy it. For me, however, a week of maddening game play was more than enough to uninstall it and throw it back into the closet.
Husband LOVES This Game.... 
2008-02-22
Bought this for my husband (avid Battlefield 1942/Call of Duty/Medal of Honor multiplayer). He LOVES this one. The graphics are amazing and it supports VOIP. Battlefiled 1942 fans will not be disappointed. There are medals and awards and your progress is tracked. All of your kills and deaths, even the weapon you're best served by.
Don't bother if you want a single player campaign mode 2008-02-15
Maybe this is an excellent multi-player online game, I don't know, but I bought it for what I thought was a single player campaign mode. Well, as far as I can tell there is none. You can play around seven or ten battlefields capturing enemy flags, but one has nothing to do with the other. I must be missing out on the graphics too, although I have an Athlon 64 X2 5600+, 2GB Ram, XFX 8600GT 512MB. Go figure. To sum up, if you want single player action, stay away.
Fun Online fisrt person shooter 
2008-01-22
Fun game, when i played on my friends computer. Sadly it does not work on my newer laptop. Only buy if you have a gaming desktop with brand name graphics card.
A fun game plagued by bugs 
2008-01-20
The average person cannot buy this game and play it at home. A computer technician is the only one with the skills and patience to set up this horribly buggy game and get it to function. I've had this game for 2 days now, and it has repeatedly randomly crashed on me sending me right to the desktop, it has given me a bluescreen once, it has completely frozen my computer and forced me to do a reboot twice, and all this is right after spending hours trying to get it to function in the first place.
After trying to install the game, I go online and it says it cannot connect to the network. So I open the ports in the manual, and it still doesn't work. I had to search around for hours online to find the right ports, because the ones in the manual seem to not be the right ones (I found lots of discrepancies between the manual and online guides). Then there's the 500mb patch download, and then apparently, the game will not work on a user account on a domain, so I had to log in locally, then when I try to play it says my cd-key is not valid. I did a lot of research and this is another stupid bug, I get vague answers about running some cd-key encrypter tool, reinstalling the patch, updating punkbuster, and reinstalling the game, all in the right secret combination mind you, and really, after about 5 hours of frusteration I managed to connect to my first online server and play.
This game has so many bugs I don't even know what to say. What makes this so hard is that the game is also so fun to play. The graphics, vehicles, explosions, and teamwork dynamics are so awesome. But the bugs are so flagrantly horrible that whoever released this game honestly needs to be sued, because this is really ridiculous. So as fun as this game is, just stay away, trust me, its not worth the trouble.
Great Game 2008-05-09
It may be a wee bit older now, but that means it is no less fun. Shoot your friends or complete strangers in the face with a Medic's shotgun, and then get blown up completely by a Sniper's claymore. Have fun with this one!
Great single player fun 2008-03-28
I really enjoy this game. There are about 10 missions that I see in the single player option. I've gone through 3 so far in about 3 weeks and have enjoyed them all. The AI of your team members is pretty good, although sometimes suicidal. There are lots of vehicle and armor options that allow for each play of a mission to be different than the last. The visuals are good, although for 2008 may be a bit dated. I have a fairly new Dell Dual processing chip with 2meg ram and it handles it easily. It is not a memory hog at all, at least for my machine. My only complaint is that the personal weapon choices are not as great as I had with other games. But that's minor compared to all else.
Battlefield 2 
2008-03-25
This game with most amazing online fights, plus the high quality sound and graphic effects, it makes playing it like living it. The graphics are more than adequate for its release date (2006) and yet some graphics cards wont handle it 100%. Some remarkable aspects about the graphics are the shadows, the lighting and the water.
But talking about the multiplayer, we can see that its a mixture of action, strategy, and a bit of RPG. Players can unlock new ranks and weapons playing online. The game is a war between the US marines and the MEC (Arab), or the US marines vs. the PLA (Chinese) depending the map, which are only 12.
The gameplay is superb, but can be also frustrating.
The good:
-Large scale gaming
-Vehicles and reemplaced weapons
-Squads and commanders
-Different weapon kits (can be taken from a downed soldier)
-Nice maps
The bad:
-Players are not given any time for protection after spawning
-Can be hard to find someone
-Some glitches from wich you can take advantage of
It's Well Worth The Price 2008-03-12
This is one of the best FPS games I've played. The graphics are good, and the enviroments are cool. They also provide a good range of weapons and vehicles, some creating very fun possibilities. (As a medic, you can kill enemies by zapping them with your shock paddles)
It also provides a good challenge, without being impossible. I've only ever played single player, too, and I here it's much better online.
My only complaint is that there isn't a campaign. I understand it isn't that kind of game, but it still would have made it funner.
Good time waster! 2008-02-25
I've wasted a lot of time with this game, but had a lot of fun too! Get the DVD version though as the CD version has 3 CDs to install, and well, that's just old hat these days ;)
