battlefield 2

Never tried Battlefield since I am a bit sceptic to online only shooters. Well I do play CS Source but mainly cause I want one mind numb shooting everything that moves game cause it is good for you. Yes that is right, 10 out of 10 selected people says that it is good to play shooters, so it have to be so. (That was for people that wants to ban games cause it distracts them from doing an ass poor work of actually going to the bottom of the real problems with violence and angsiety in the first place!)

So Battlefield 2 is a modern massive shooter online, with bots for the internet weary player. It takes place in a near, made up future, where you can play as American, Chineese or Arab. All sides are equal in gear and professions. (Yes, you choose a profession and tries to fit into a group playing out your role, IE a medic has to heal and revive his fella soldiers when they are leaking worse then Swizz cheese) and try to take control points for vitory points, and of course, kicking the crap out of the opponant.

Plain and simple, this game doesn' have any depth except to the gameplay where you quickly notice that people with headsets and coordination will kick the butts of 100 N00Bs without much problem. It is tactical and the missions may differ with maps but the concept is the same ol same ol shjoot, duck kill better then your enemies. Is if fun? Oh yes! :D

Hopefully their will be more patches increasing stability and hopefully the prices will drop on graphics cards and processors as well as RAM cause this game eats up your resources quickly!

http://www.eagames.com/official/battlefield/battlefield2/us/home.jsp

Special forces

Seems that one of the solutions to earn money, is to drop several small expansions to a big hit. It salso seems as a good way to piss of many of the gamers out there. Special forces to Battlefield 2 is one of these expansions and it gives you the oppurtunity to try out SAS, Spetznas and US special forces etc.  The game gives you a lot of same same but different. If you don't have the time to connect to internet, this is not that much to look forward to. A few new weapons, some nice nightvision and grapple hooks and wire corssbow (that will have you killed trying to get on the bloody thing) and very few maps to play on.

The game is the same as Battlefield 2, of course, and while this adds some night missions and extra it gives me tauntingly a feeling that I am missing out so much for not having online friends to play coordinately with using headsets to communicate and play in a good group mode etc, just how they envisioned it to be played. Still, CS source (except from now with the latest updates that constantly hangs hl2.exe when trying to quit) gives you a more satisfactory gameplay. Battlefield 2 would have been great if they just let you play on all the maps with bots to support the gameplay. To me this feels cheap, and the hefty price for this release just doesn't feel ok, espacially since this will lead to a lot of. Sorry, we are playing Battlefield 2, ultra realistic mod, vehicles edition patch 1.2 beta... you are not...

All in all a good games continues but only for those that venture online and have the fortune to klnow good groups to play with.

-Wolfgir-