One of the best games I have played but why?
If that is a down point to the game, then you so many more reasons to get the game.
The game itself is combat, fun maybe, but tactically you have to be so good to survive in battle. You have a team, you order them to obey your instructions, you heal the wounded, you repair vehicles, you blow tanks, you ambush the enemy and have I missed something else??
It offers the lot, place yourselves in high positions and battle enemies in highly fought battles, it times and energy. Its not one of those games that you just shoot to kill and then the round is complete. The Multiplayer, in my opinion, is one the greatest ones you will ever experience and a good point to start with is the demo itself, that will give you a feel on how the game is.
64 combatants in one map, the scale of war is incredible that once a battle starts, you have to think fast, its no sitting behind a wall and thinking everything will be alright. Most games I find that you can't really use a map to your advantage. With Battlefield 2, the map is everything you need to succeed in battle, by knowing the ins and outs could be a decisive victory against the enemy. You will find that this is not always the case, it will come to a point where the enemy guesses right and you have to think what the next tactical decision will be.
Here is a case scenario, you are entering foreign land, your troops move in with your tanks. The next minute, your tank is taking out with an RPG, your men are being ambushed, what do you do? You could, a) move your men out of there and withdraw risking massive loss of life and armour, b) fight till the death and never leave your men behind, c) call in the artillery and get them to bombard the location your in risking your own life, d) hold out until more reinforcements arrived after spawning from death and I could go on.
Thats the beauty of the game, theres no real limit, you have a full arsenal of weaponry from tanks to fighter planes to machine guns, rocket launchers and the men on the ground. You choose your tactics, how your approach is, you choose your who you are going to be (e,g. anti-tank, infantry, sniper etc) and with these in mind, it will decide your fate, no draw but a victory or heavy defeat.
However, you do not just need to know what the good things are, I would slap this label on the back of the game.
WARNING: Highly recommend having a 256 MB Video card & at least 2.6 Ghz to 3.0 Ghz processor for full optimum performance.
This game, to have its full capabilities in terms of graphics will need both of the above, its no good having a low 1.7 Ghz and a memory card of 128 Mb card because it does not give a real thrill. The graphics are decent of my machine and I love the game, surely with a higher processor, the games graphics would open my eyes and with extreme precision because it reveals all you need on the battlefield. And I strongly recommend that you have a CPU like the above as well, otherwise, there would be too much disappointment in the graphic level. But who am I to the blame creators of Battlefield for creating such a beautiful game? It is too good even for itself to fall at the hurdle, you just need a better computer.
Battlefield has crossed the final hurdle but its for you to decide which position it falls. To me, its first place.