If it wasn't for all of the technical issues with the game, BF2 would have been a great game.
Battlefield 2 features some great sound and graphics, but you will need a top of the line pc in order to experience it all. The maps are really large and are capable of holding 64 players, and when you are at a server with around 60 players it really feels like a full scale battle is happening.
With that being in mind there are a lot of new features in the game as well as old ones from the previous games. You will see both sides having the relatively same weapons, vehicles, and airplanes to do battle with. Some of the new features are the squad and commander systems in the game. The squad system allows up to 6 players to organize into 1 smaller team and really gives you the teamwork feel to the game. Voice communication is brought into this game and makes discussing strategy easy and fast to do. The problem is that almost no one uses it unless you find a server which has veterans that know the game by heart. So finding a server that has a lot of people actually using it can be pretty difficult to do. The commander system takes one player, usually whoever is highest in rank, and gives them a map with a bird’s eye view of the area. That allows them to give commands to attack or defend certain locations or drop supplies at a certain location. A good balance to this is when the commander is using the map and commanding everyone else is that they are a sitting duck, so usually you will have to find some cover away from the battles to effectively command your side.
While all of these features are really cool and make the game fun to play, it is all overshadowed by a lot of technical issues that are in the game.
One of the major problems in the game is that the servers, and server browser, are clumsy and laggy at times. That means expect to have a lot of trouble finding a good server that doesn’t have many issues with it. Another problem with the game is that it has some horribly long loading times. When you choose to connect to a server, go and watch some TV or something because you won’t be in that server for at least 5 to 10 minutes. What’s also very frustrating, and can happen at times, is that after spending what feels like 6 hours to connect you lose connection to the server. It gets really frustrating and annoying to have this happen, especially if it happens multiple times. Another frustrating part of the game is the accuracy of the guns. When you fire, it appears all of the bullets fly randomly. The game does have the crouch and prone position, but those do not seem to help your accuracy at all. So it gets really annoying when you are trying to shoot down a person while looking down the sights of your gun while in prone position and miss a bunch of times and have them turn around and pick you off real quickly. Vehicles are a great feature to this game, but at times it feels like they are too dominant. That mainly depends on who you are playing the game with.
So this game all comes down to this.
The Good: Great graphics and sound, large maps which feature full scale battles, the addition of the squad and commander systems to the game.
The Bad: Laggy servers and clumsy server browser, very long loading times, accuracy problem, at times vehicles too dominant.