Unfinished, untested, and unworthy.
User Rating: 6.1 | Battlefield 2 PC
Battlefield 2 is one of the most anticipated PC games ever. And you'd think that because of this EA and DICE would try their hardest to make it a mindblowing game like the Battlefield 1942. While EA and DICe did try to make a good game, they failed in a few aspects. Graphics- The game is a graphical powerhouse. For loading maps that size, with vehicles and players the game manages to retian a beautiful game world. Many details are apparent. My only complaint is that I don't have a machine that could run this game to its full potential. But even on mid settings, this game's grpahics are excellent. Sound- Weapon effects, voices, and vehicles all sound great. Although the new soundtrack is very dissapointing. Rather than the great "War Theme" that played at the beggining, the menu, and during the loading screens, BF2's soundtrack is utterly awful. But this does not detract from the overall game much. Gameplay- Normally BF's strongpoint, has sadly failed. While the game itself plays very nicely, and the weapons and vehicles are balanced, its the player community and the god awful TK system that help ruin the game. The player community wouldn't be so bad if server admins are on all the time, but this is rare. -Many players are babies. They wine and complain and moan that you got a vehicle, then they try to hve you TK them so they can get you banned from the server. And despite the TK system, TKers are everywhere and still cause mayhem. Many clan owned servers are used by those clans for nothing more than point farming. TK system- I can see what EA hoped to obtain with this system. But it fell flat on its face. What's worse, the system was working fine is both previous games. Yet they insisted on changing it anyway. "If it aint broken don't fix it". But EA did, and instead just demolished it. The TK system counts any action against a friendly as a negative. If you blow up a chopper and the hulk lands on a team mate you lose points. At which point the TKed teammate is given te option to punish you or not. Since most BF players have the mental age of 5, most will hit punish without ever thinking about it. Costing you more points and after 3-5 punish, you get kicked from the server. Stability- Again the game itself is reliable but once again the lack of testing every area has cost EA and DICE. The server menu is prone to random slowdown, showing hundreds of 1000 ping servers and not giving accurate information on many servers. EA has issued two patches to attempt to correct this problem, and both did nopthing to remedy the situation. One patch even being recalled as it made more problems. Overall, BF2 is in awful condition for now. It should have spent mch more time in development, but i'm certain EA and DICE didn't play test the game before they sent it out. An extremely foolish move on their part. The game could have been great. Because a few critical spots have been missed, it fails. Value- At this point the game isn't worth a cent from your pocket. So spend that money on a game like Joint Ops if you want something now. Although I am confident the game will be fixed as time goes on. For now, don't waste your money. 
