Battlefield 2 is the best multiplayer first person shooter I've ever played, and I've played them all. Simply amazing.
User Rating: 9.9 | Battlefield 2 PC
This game is awesome. Just as World of Warcraft captivated and awed me as the best massively multiplayer game I ever laid hands on, Battlefield 2 has amazed me and is in my opinion the best first person shooter I have ever played in my life. Battlefield 1942 was a great game, but nothing spectacular. It was revolutionary to the multiplayer fps genre, and brought with it a huge mod explosion that surpassed the modding community of half life. But it had its share of gameplay problems, and it wasn't the prettiest game to look at. All of this has changed in Battlefield 2. The gameplay in Battlefield 2 is a mix between action-packed halo 2 style and tactical combat. You will be bunny hopping around enemies flaring your machine gun, but at the same time, if you rush into a base with no strategy or plan you will get your butt whooped as in real life. You die in only a couple of hits from bullets, yet you can parachute off a 20 foot building without a scratch. this game does not sacrifice fun for realism, but it so requires the use of tactics that it almost becomes a realistic game. The balance between the classes in Battlefield 2 is awesome. At one occasion I may feel like being a lone wolf and sniping people, while the next round I will go in guns blazing with the assault kit. No kit feels too overpowered or too weak. The sniper kit has been toned down since battlefield 1942 so that snipers do not dominate the battlefield, even on the largest of maps, and the anti tank class recieved a considerable upgrade with the addition of a wire-guided missle launcher that can instagib light vehicles. The graphics of Battlefield 2 are superb. With a top of the line PC and all settings on high, Battlefield 2 looks as good as Half Life 2 with maps that are one hundred times larger. The details on each individual player model, vehicle, and static object are just amazing. The ragdoll in this game totally adds to the immersion factor, as does the dynamic lighting and superb animations. There are some rough edges from far away, especially with anti aliasing off, but up close and from the horizon alike this game is one of the best-looking first person shooters currently out. The sounds of the new Battlefield are also very good. The cracking of gunshots, the voice acting, and even the loading music are all well done. Sounds seem to travel much farther in bf2 than in earlier battlefield titles. The sounds of gunshots will never cease as long as you are within 500 yards of a frontline flag, and this isnt ambient noise either. However, the chinese voice acting could be a little better and there are some sound bugs, most notable being a glitch where the support gun continues to make noise when it isnt being fired. Overall though, this is a very cool game to listen to from the other room with everything happening at once. This game is extremely replayable. With the addition of stat tracking, you will want to log in 100 or more hours in ranked servers alone to unlock all of the special weapon kits (which aren't that much more powerful than the default weapons but a lot cooler). This game tracks EVERYTHING, from the amount of kills and deaths you rack up to the amount of times you revived a teammate to the person you have killed the most throughout your time playing. Battlefield 2 is the mmorpg of first person shooters, and it doesn't disappoint, especially with a 64 player mode that no longer lags thanks to the new version 1.1 patch. This is my suggestion to whoever reads this review- BUY THIS GAME. It is the most amazing, awesome thing you will play in 2005 or perhaps even ever. Battlefield 2 has jump started the next generation of PC titles. Own this little piece of history :)
