Is it really the future of combat?
Goods
+NEW VEHICLES!! enough said, lol.
+Cool and interesting unlockables.
+New game mode, Titans!! It acts a lot like attack and defend. The game requires your team to seek out and capture missile silos around the map. The silos under your team's control fires missiles at constant intervals at the enemies' Titan to lower their shield. Then when the shield if down you and your team can invade their Titan to take it down faster. It's pretty interesting... for awhile...
+Buddy List. You can now add people to your buddy list. This allows you to know when your friends are on and which servers they're in. This is appealing because it's useful for people such as myself, who doesn't want to use Teamspeak or Ventrilo when I just want to play with a few good friends for an hour or two.
+It is less demanding on your computer. My computer in all honesty is not a great piece of work. I played BF2 and it sometimes take forever to load a map. However, in BF:2142 it takes like no time for it to load. This is all down to you as a gamer though. Are you after instant gaming or lustful graphics but take a few moments to load.
Bads
-Less kits. There are only four kits: Recon, Assault, Engineer, and Support. However, the kits split into two kits you can say. Recon = Sniper & Spec Ops. Assault = Assault & Medic. Engineer = Engineer and Anti-Tank. Support is well... support, lol. I placed this under the bad because I grew a liking to how BF2 work how each kit have their own cool little name and special attributes.
-A little TOO futuristic. Ok, it's 2142, so why am I complaining. All I can say that the game doesn't have that challenging combat like in BF2. The vehicles get these shields, aka: Counter Measure. It pretty much protect you against engineer's rockets and other vehicles' fire. -Flying a helicopter has no thrill either. In BF2, when I fly a helicopter there's a challenge to it because the missiles doesn't have homing and rather hard to land perfectly (mouse and keyboard). In 2142, it is a piece of cake to land the helicopters and taking out another helicopter is a piece of cake because the missiles pretty much homes in on the thing.
-I do not see any "True" upgrades. The graphics if anything remained the same. I even feel it been downgraded a little. The only real upgrades are the unlockables and it being set in the future.
BF:2142 is a good game, I will agree to that. It carries the bases of what all the BF games in the past have presented. However, it did not exceed what BF2 had offered. If anything it might have downgraded it a little. Nevertheless it is a good addition to any BF fans' collection.