Battlefield 2

Manufacturer:	Electronic Arts
Release date:	21 June, 2005

Battlefield 2

Average rating: Stars

You will LOVE OPENING and CLOSING the BOX !

I say this because if you are like 80-90% of the people who bought this game and could not run it on their own state-of-the-art systems, that's about all you'll be doing with this game.

Even if you buy it thinking your system requirements are close enough, like I did, you will enter a lottery to determine if your video card is one of the mere TEN cards it supports. Again, not ten brands of cards, but TEN cards themselves.

I was severely disappointed with EA. I have been buying EA games with trust AND confidence since the company first opened its doors. After this disaster, I will never buy another EA game as long as I breathe. As I look at the specs on the box right now, it makes no mention that it only supports 10 cards. You do not find this out until you break the seal, thus rendering the game unreturnable to the store.

At any rate, there is no reason you need to pay full retail prices for this game to give the game a shot despite all the specification warnings you will be reading. Go to any of the known auction websites, even here at Amazon, and you will see hundreds of these games for sale by users who could only open and close the box the game comes in.

I am hardpressed to recommend a game that very, very few gamers can play whether it be online or offline. Send EA a message. Pass on this game and others that turn up their nose at the general gaming public.

GB
Capt USMC

Battlefield 2 - Electronic Arts

Sucks!

You throw in the disk, thinking oh great its gona be a great time.. but unless you have a $2000 system, your ****ed. I spent about $600 on ram and graphics card alone. Then when I went to try to run the game, no luck.. crashes to the desktop at startup. (Which if you go to www.totalbf2.com their forums, Cilent forums, and read some of the polls.. it sucks. 80% of the people have problems, eather system or lag, alot go OVER the requirements, but still won't work. Once you BUY the game, and get to the readme, you'll notice that only about 10 graphics cards are supported. !!!10!!! out of the thousands of cards only like 10 CARDS are supported, not the brands, the cards!! Even reports of supported cards not working from time to time!

Even those who go above the requirements and have just what they ask you to have, still report crashing to the desktop, major lag, even with high end systems. The list goes on...

To top it off, BF2 doesn't SUPPORT you, they take your money and then give no support as far as trying to get your game to work.
ATI and Nivivda don't plan on fixing the problems.. They figure "oh we have your money lets ditch you!" Which is exactly what they do. I suppose ATI / Nivida have nothing to do with it, as far as support... at least they reponded to petitons saying they can't help you out. But battlefield to doesn't even have a petition system, any type of support system. Period. You have a problem you fix it yourself, or you don't play.

Basically, You can have a super system... one that meets and even goes above the requirements in areas. But theres still a good chance it won't run. Even if your lucky enough for it to run, theres a good chance of it crashing mid-game, as has been reported countless times on the forums. Plus alot of lag even with the best of systems.

Basically, Don't buy this game... not for a good long time till they can get some updates to fix all the problems. You still want to ignore this review, think your system will run it fine. Then I wish you luck. I've had the game for almost 2 months in the case. Gathering dust. No support help, no anything! Not even looking into it. So, all I can say is goodluck, I pray you have a good experence with them. I know I haven't... and I'm tired of trying to get anything out of them. I'll be takeing this game up to EBGAMES and tradeing it off for a better worth while game. Thanks.

Electronic Arts - Battlefield 2

The most fun I've had since Diablo II

WARNING: Check your system specs and make sure you have AT LEAST the minimum requirements. Take the time to check out some of the forums that are dedicated to BF2, such as www.bf2.com. There are many threads dealing with the requirements.

That being said, this is a really, really fun game. I run an AMD FX-53 with 1GB of RAM and a GeForce 6800GT video card, and I have no problems with this game.

There is a single player option for offline play, but you are limited to the smaller, 16-player maps. This is fun for practicing and getting a feel for the game, but the real fun is playing multiplayer online!

Be on one of three military units: USMC, Middle East Coalition (MEC), or PLA (People's Liberation Army - China) and fight small-unit battles across a variety of maps.

Choose to be any one of the following: Special Forces, Sniper, Assault Class, Support Class, Engineer Class, Medic Class, and Anti-Tank Class (I think that's all of them).

Work together with your team, or be a "Lone Wolf" and operate on your own.

Weapons include everything from a USMC K-Bar knife to Heat-Seaking missiles.

Vehicles include everything from a HMMWV (Hummvee) to fighter jets, Blackhawks, and attack helos.

Battlefield 2 has a ranking and awards system. Accumulate points by killing your enemy, healing your comrades, resupplying your comrades, or capturing outposts. You can earn rank, badges, ribbons, or medals depending on your performance.

The game has been plagued by people hacking into the stats server, and many people complain of online cheaters. Such is online gaming, I guess. EA is currently working on patch 1.03, which will supposedly "fix" some of the more ridiculous "stat-padding" gimmicks - killing someone, having a medic revive them, and then killing them again. Rinse. Repeat. This is called "Point Farming," and you'd be surprised how many people cheat just to get points so they can get promoted or earn awards. Keep in mind that you can only earn points playing multiplayer online on a ranked server.

BTW, moving up in rank does not mean you get more "Hit points" or improved accuracy in the game. Higher ranking players are the first choice of the game server to be "commander" for a round. Also, as you move up in rank, you can unlock a few weapons. But that is pretty much it.

Anyway, if you like a "first-person shooter (fps)," that takes place in modern times with modern war-fighting equipment, then this is for you! Just make sure your system can handle it.

(And, for the person with Zone Alarm. Get into your Zone Alarm configuration and check the settings specific to bf2.exe. If you relax some of the permissions, you should have no trouble getting BF2 to run WITHOUT having to completely shut down Zone Alarm. You just have to grant bf2.exe certain privileges, or Zone Alarm will pop up one of its warnings that you will not be able to see when BF2 is trying to run - it is very hard to try and [alt]+[tab] to swap apps when BF2 is running.)