Edge may have given it nine. But is it next to real life??
User Rating: 8.9 | Battlefield 2 PC
With it's action packed levels on 64 player servers, Battlefield 2 has been chosen one of the most decent, addictive, "but kickin" First person shooter for online gameplay. You may pick your team as the Chinese army, the MEC (Middle Eastern Colaberation), or the U.S army itself. Each team has it's own weapon of choice, vehicle of choice and even it's own voice actors. Accurately enough, these vehicles are based upon what these armies actually use. When you pick a team you can choose between 6 weapon classes from Special Forces, Sniper, Assault, Medic, Engineer and last but not least an Anti-tank class. This goes for all teams, mind you! There is, unfortunatley, only one gameplay mode. There are flags based around the map you are playing and you have to either regain control from the opposing force or take it from a neutral point. The more players at the capture point...the quicker the capture bar will go up. Race around the levels in Hummers, vans, buggies, jeeps, tanks and even planes and helicopters to take control of each point. If your team loses, there is even music to indicate if you have lost or won.....aswell as the sentence in the middle of the screen saying wether you did or didn't. When you select a team, you can either become a Commander or join a squad..or if you really want to be brave or boring..become a lone soldier. When you're in the Commander mode..you can place UAV or scanners to scan the area for enemy forces. If you see them, click the Artillery button to blow them to pieces. That's one step for getting closer to victory anyway. You can, aswell, place vehicle or supply crates to your team mates for they can take the vehivle or restock on health and ammo with the crate. With it's beautiful engine, watch dog fights and helicopters blast the spawn points from a distance. You can hear the thundering missiles and gun fire echo around the map. But, here comes the bad news. The server menu, in wich you obviously join a server to play on, can be very slow...even on a top of the range PC. Loading times for the map is riddiculous, but you still have music to listen to whilst waiting a good 5 minutes. On one of the menu's, there is a data menu where you can see how your progress is going for moving up a rank. Moving up a rank will give you a selection of unlocking a weapon which is shown on the 'BFHQ' menu. All is well for this game. Oh yes..I completley forgot....more bad news. When you have selected a weapon..you cannot just blast your enemy form a good distance like Counter Strike: Source or any other first person shooter. You have to either go prone...or duck to get a good few shots ninto your enemy's chest. Guns are, in fact, inaccurate..which can be extremely annoying. I'm sure if your running around a bombed outt own in Iraq or a muddy swamp in China....your bullets would be piercing the enemy pretty accuratley. By the way, those 2 places I mentioned above are maps in the game which I'm sure you'd love to look out for! So that's about it...Battlefield 2 has a strong and promising approach to you people out there who love first person war games! Or even if you don't...you'll still love to buy the game! It's great fun and extremly enjoyable. If you have other collections of the Battlefield saga....and you don't have this...definetly buy this game. Oh, also! Look out for Battlefield 2142! It's out now! Good luck soldiers! 
