All-out war in the most intense warzones with a broad array of modern weapons
User Rating: 9 | Battlefield 2 PC
I played both of the earlier incarnations of the Battlefield series, though not for long. BF 1642 simply got sorrounded by all the other WW2 FPS games, BF Vietnam really got me down as tanks were simply impossible to around in because of the terrain and all aircraft were notoriously difficult to control. Battlefield 2 (BF2) remedied a lot of this as modern warfare games are rather scarce, and also BF2 has a broad array of landscapes to fight in. Wheter your vice is urban combat, canyon crawling or assault over open plains, BF got it for you. Contrary to BF Vietnam, all the aircraft have been revised and made much more newbie-friendly. This does not mean though, that the helicopters are flying gun-fortresses as they mainly have cardboard armour, and are rather heavy in flight. the score system should be familiar to all players of the previous battlefield games but an important difference is that when you play on the ranked servers the game keeps track of your accumulated score. when enough points are accumulated you will gain a higher rank. this has the dual benefit of allowing you to unlock a new weapon for one of your kits, and gives you preceedence over lower ranking people when applying to be commander of your team. The commander is a vitally important part of each team as he can use artillery strikes, supply crates, sattelite scans that reveal all enemies to him, and a UAV scout drone, giving a radar on the map in an area around it. Also the commander is able to give orders to squads that people form allowing him to create bette tactics for his team. Another added benefit of being in a squad is that you can use your squadleader as a mobile spawnpoint. Sadly few people use the squad function, wich takes part of the gratness awawy from the game. 
