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Check Your System Twice

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: July 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Ok. I have only downloaded the demo and I already love the game. I'll buy it after I get the money. It is simply a great war game that I can only infer that my dad and I will both love. He's been looking for a good game like this for years, but this will be the first time it isn't of the Wal-Mart clearance rack. Now about system requirements.

Now some of you people are sitting there seriously complaining about how "you need a $800 graphics card and 2 gigs of RAM". 1.There are no $800 graphics cards unless you do SLI in which you buy two, sorry to burst your bubble and 2. No one needs 2 gigs of RAM unless you want do to video editing. I have an AMD Athlon XP 2500+ CPU(slightly overclocked), an overclocked GeForce 6200 256MB AGP 8x video card, which was only $92.50 may I add, and 1 gig of RAM, although I know I could have ran this game with my old 512MB.

Now I'm not saying you can run it with a crappy computer, but all you really need is up-to-date technology. Go out and buy the cheapest and most recent graphics card like I did(avoid TC) and that will solve half your problems. Most of you probaly don't need to do that. You do need to have a graphics card that's in the Radeon 9000 series or the Geforce 5 series to run the game and 512MB of RAM with most CPUs not including Intel Pentium 3s or certain Athlons.

So most of you could run the game at low settings(not that you want to play it then), but caution. If you are running any integrated graphics(ESPECIALLY Intel's which are horrific) or if you're running an ATI video card that's not too recent, you might want to reconsider. The reason I mention ATI is because Battlefield 2 is built on Nvidia so not only does it take advantage of many Nvidia things, but it's not made for ATI therefore giving ATI people dissadvanteges.

Don't get it wrong though. This is a fabulous game. Frankly, some of you should even find it a good reason for a computer upgrade. Because if you can't run this, forget every game that follows it. That includes Age of Empires fans, or people who are waiting for other games to come out. Hope this helps.

The Servers Suck

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: June 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Well, if the official servers ran adequately the game would be nearly as good as others have described.

But the reality of the game is that EA has not provided enough support for the game so the game is beset by horrendous lag in the instances you can find a non-full server to play on.

The connection front end is something out of the 80's with no BUDDY LISTS, no functioning filters, and crashes half the time you ask it to refresh. It'll take you a half hour of attempts to log into a server that allows you to earn rank, then you'll be sickened by the lag and usually disconnected before the mission plays out.

Wait for a patch or for the game to come out on console. Currently the game is more frustrating than fun.

read this review to tell u everything

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: January 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is the best modern war game of all time and will be for the next few years. Please do not worry about the negative reviews because most of them are complaining about their computer's performance and not the gameplay itself. For those of you ready for a massive war online come and join us. Yes it takes a good computer to run it smoothly but you can get by with low settings. Just to let you know, I got 4 friends of mine, who always teased me about being a game freak, to play this game. And I got all four of them addicted to this game to the point where they are coming over all the time to play it, and asking me which computer to buy that will play this game smoothly. I've put over 100 hours of gameplay in, and I still look foward to playing it with my 4 friends every chance we get. I've even pulled an all nighter with this game and still played the next day. Thats 12 hours that went by like minutes because of intense battles. Just like real war where years seem like weeks.

Utter Garbage

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 13 / 26
Date: September 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is one of those games that sounds UTTERLY FANTASTIC on paper, but is crap in practice. Charging more than $20 for this is criminal.

The main problem with this game is that you have to play it with other people, and let's be honest, most people who play these games are scumbags.

Expect to get teamkilled a lot. I can't even tell you how many times some jerk on my own team murdered me from behind or blew me up with a tank gun on purpose.

Expect to listen to sneering little jerks with skills honed from 1000s of hours of gameplay own you over and over and laugh. You'll know them by their name which will be something like: "k3Wl m45t3r 47000"

Expect to be frustrated at the ridiculously steep learning curve and brutally unforgiving gameplay. There is too much to do and you have no direction. I'm sure this appeals to the hardcore gamer, but to the casual gamer who doesn't want to have to invest 100s of hours of time wrestling with the steep learning curve and developing reliable contacts to team up with, this game is a waste of time and money.

You really can't go it alone, which means you need a team, which means you have to invest time socializing with people to develop a team. That's the way the game should be played, apparently.

However, in practice, everyone will go it alone. No one will use the team functions built in.

The game is also buggy and unstable, causing system lockups, crashes and that momentary system hang that causes you to miss your shot and die. In fact, it takes over 5 seconds to access the menu, yep, when you press ESC, expect to wait 5 seconds for the menu to load. I've NEVER seen another game that sucks that bad. Not one.

The vehicles are cool, but have no radar. You have a state-of-the-art VTOL jet with no friggin' radar. That's brilliant!

To be fair, this game would probably be quite fun if you were a member of a dedicated BF2 community, used teamspeak to coordinate, had 20+ hrs per week to invest in honing your skills, a high end computer with a flawless internet connection.

But for the casual gamer this is a rip off, cut and dry. You will only end up frustrated as you die over and over from people with skills developed from 1000s of hours logged into these games. You will not be able to compete unless you are also willing to make such a commitment.

If you must play this game, wait 'till it's on the value rack, don't pay full retail for this crap.

BEST war game of the Year. Unbelievable intense

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: October 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

BF2 is the best war game of the year. Thanks for the production team and thanks EA bring this game into alive. I played many many online war game but this one is the most intense battle fighting game. I know some video card doesn't support this game but mind is OK. I Have PNY verto Geforce FX 5600 ultra and I can play the maximum resolution with medium setting. It showed very very beautiful graphic and you don't really need to spend $ 500 USD for the super high end video card for the maxium setting. I thinks all Gefore FX video card will be OK to play this game.

BF2 System Requirements

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: July 31, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Will you need major upgrades at high to run this outstanding game? Perhaps not.

With my non-gamer PC, I did have to upgrade my 64MB video card to run BF2. Found a 256 MB card with the nVidia FX 5700 chipset on sale for $79 after rebate.

With the new video card, I run BF2 on a 3-year old Pentium 4 2.0 Ghz CPU, with only 512 MB RAM. The maps load slowly, but game performance is pretty good on low resolution settings.

Conclusion: if you're looking to run this game on a tight budget, look for low-end video cards on sale which meet minimum requirements (http://www.eagames.com/official/battlefield/battlefield2/us/features.jsp?ncc=1). Do your research though, some low-end video cards share your system RAM.

Stunning Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: November 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is an amazing piece of work, it requires stategy, great shooting skill, and many more things. Battlefield is a modern warfare game, where two armies fight for control points of stategic value. The armies are equiped with differet weapons, and vehicles and must fight deadly battles, ranging from street warfare to open fields. The game requires stategy because you must know which contorl point to attack next, or when it is best to just defend a valued spawn point. The players must use vehicle to dominate the battlefiled or be infantry and sneak into an enemy base. However despite all this you need a VERY good computer to play this game, as well as broadband. If you do not have these requiremtns you cant play the game. Single Player is fun for awhile and lets you explorer the great maps, but to really enjoy this game you must play it online. Anyone who has a good computer should buy this game, it is blend beautifully together to to give you one of the greatest gaming expierences for the PC.

Pros:
-Balanced maps
-Deep, thoughtlful gameplay
-Difficult (on hard setting in singleplayer) and online
-Fun, non-linear objectives
-Different classes are unique
-Commander who leads your team (only good if you have a good commander)
-Squads with communications via headsets
-Mulitplayer
-Graphics, draw distance
Cons
-Artillery is usually frustrating
-Single Player gets kind of boring
-Bad commanders make it hard to win vs. a good commander

UPDATE: More problems...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: September 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I tried playing today, and I couldn't join most servers because version "1.4" was released and I still had version "1.3"

So I download a 140MB "incrimental" patch that is supposed to upgrade me from 1.3 to 1.4, instead of downloading a whole new version of the game.

That installer program somehow doesn't recognize that I already have v1.3, so I have to download a "full patch" (500+MB) to overwrite everything.

After downloading and installing that monster, it STILL doesn't work because (surprise!) 1.4 isn't actually the latest version, even though it is the latest version listed on the official website. It turns out they released version "1.41" shortly after "1.4" to patch a problem with their patch, and in yet another stroke of genius they forgot to list 1.41 on the official website, so I had to search unofficial websites to find it.

Not having had nearly enough surprises for one day, I then discover that there is no "incrimental" patch to get from 1.4 to 1.41, so I have to download ANOTHER 500 MB's to upgrade to version 1.41.

DO NOT BUY GAMES FROM ELECTRONIC ARTS. They are greedy (see below) and incompetent (see above).

Previous review:
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How shameless...money buys you better weapons

This game has a scoring system, and as the player earns points, they get promoted and "unlock" better weapons.

For $20, EA sells an expansion pack that includes even better weapons. Still OK, right?

The trick is, people paying an extra $20 can use those new (better) weapons on the same servers used by players without the expansion pack. If you don't pay more money, you will end up playing in the same game with other people who have better weapons because they paid more. You can keep getting more points, but you won't get the new weapons.

The pay-to-get weapons are displayed in the basic game, right along with all of the other weapons you can unlock with a high score only. They don't tell you that you can't ever unlock these weapons. Maybe they want you to spend so much time trying to get them unlocked that you will think "Oh well, at this point I might as well pay for it."

An honest review from a middle of the road gamer

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: November 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Ok first off let me state that this game is one of the richest and most complete gaming experiences i have ever had on any console ever.
This game is bf1942+beautiful graphics+awesome sound+better gameplay=Amazing experience. That said this is only true if your machine can handle it and when i say machine i'm including your internet connection. EA's website states that the ram, video and cpu requirements for this game are as follows;

1.7 GHz Intel Celeron D / Pentium 4 or
AMD Athlon XP/ Sempron or greater
512 MB of RAM or more
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 or greater
ATI Radeon 8500 or greater

I would only recommend playing with this low of a spec if you plan on playing at the lowest graphics settings available and don't mind excruciatingly long load times(5+ minutes). This game is an absolute resource hog. On top of that, slow hd's are not taken into account. If you try and play with 512mb ram and a hardrive with only 2mb cache you're in for some serious headaches. If you have these specs i would HIGHLY recommend that you stick with BF1942 & the desert combat mod until you can afford to upgrade your machine.
Now on to the biggest probem of all with this game which are the bugs. My machine is as follows.

Amd Clawhammer 3200+
1024mb kingston valueram
2x80gb seagates w/2mb cache(raid0 array)
Geforce 6800 GT 256mb

With the default install this game for me takes 5+ minutes just to join a game and start playing! Between connecting to the account server(2-4min), refreshing servers(20-60sec) & connecting to a server/game load time(1-2min) you have enough time to pop some popcorn, crack open a cold one and have time left over to ponder the perplexities of the universe. Then if and i say IF you can find a server that has a ping under 150(required for decent gameplay) you will be ready to play. On top of that even the few servers that seem to offer decent ping times often seem to have connection problems. I can't tell you how frustrating this has been for me. On many an occasion i wanted to pull my hair out trying to play. Why would i pull my hair out over a videogame? Because on one out of about every five occasions i find a really good server and get to experience computer gaming as is should be. An unsurpassed lifelike experience as far as wargames go.
Please keep in mind however that low ping has nothing to do with a high speed internet connection. My connection is 1mb and still i get bad pings. If you are too many hops from the server(in an isolated spot in the world) chances are you will get bad pings. My closest servers are 700 miles(alaska-Seattle) and i get bad pings. I would highly recommend trying the demo before you buy this game.
So there you have it. An amazing game IF your machine can handle it and IF you are one of the few lucky ones to get good ping times.

One Of The Best PC Shooters Avaliable

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: October 12, 2006
Author: Amazon User

After having this game for a little over two months now, I still have not even begun to get bored by it. The maps are big enough that you can always find a new hiding place or shortcut. The truly great thing about this game is that it is easy to just jump in and start playing, but as you start getting more involved in the battle you start to discover new things. The path of discovery ultimately leads to learning how to fly the various aircraft and becoming an ace pilot. Until the Battlefield series, the only exceptional online shooters were in the Medal Of Honor series, but the Battlefield series easily trumps any other war shooter with a combination of servers that support up to 64 players, the ability to team up with said players in a variety of ways (for instance, one time my team took a helicopter to an attack point, parachuted out of the chopper when we were getting shot at, and landed by a land transport vehicle, which we hijacked and drove to a nearby port, making our getaway on a boat), a truly brilliant game engine, and some impressive maps. I still have to get the expansions, which I have heard make the game even more astounding. If you are interested to any degree in online shooters, pick this one up.

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