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1 Rating: 1, Useful: 11 / 28
Date: June 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I feel your pain Jose. I pre-ordered the game which was to include a free headset....got the package yesterday, and inside the BF2 box was just the head set, no damn cd's. Now i gotta return the friggin thing, and not get the head set. bang up job amazon...the 1 star is for them, not the game...i'm sure it rocks. will not pre-order through these gimps again.

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.

Sucks!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 14
Date: August 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

You throw in the disk, thinking oh great its gona be a great time.. but unless you have a $2000 system, your ****ed. I spent about $600 on ram and graphics card alone. Then when I went to try to run the game, no luck.. crashes to the desktop at startup. (Which if you go to www.totalbf2.com their forums, Cilent forums, and read some of the polls.. it sucks. 80% of the people have problems, eather system or lag, alot go OVER the requirements, but still won't work. Once you BUY the game, and get to the readme, you'll notice that only about 10 graphics cards are supported. !!!10!!! out of the thousands of cards only like 10 CARDS are supported, not the brands, the cards!! Even reports of supported cards not working from time to time!

Even those who go above the requirements and have just what they ask you to have, still report crashing to the desktop, major lag, even with high end systems. The list goes on...

To top it off, BF2 doesn't SUPPORT you, they take your money and then give no support as far as trying to get your game to work.
ATI and Nivivda don't plan on fixing the problems.. They figure "oh we have your money lets ditch you!" Which is exactly what they do. I suppose ATI / Nivida have nothing to do with it, as far as support... at least they reponded to petitons saying they can't help you out. But battlefield to doesn't even have a petition system, any type of support system. Period. You have a problem you fix it yourself, or you don't play.

Basically, You can have a super system... one that meets and even goes above the requirements in areas. But theres still a good chance it won't run. Even if your lucky enough for it to run, theres a good chance of it crashing mid-game, as has been reported countless times on the forums. Plus alot of lag even with the best of systems.

Basically, Don't buy this game... not for a good long time till they can get some updates to fix all the problems. You still want to ignore this review, think your system will run it fine. Then I wish you luck. I've had the game for almost 2 months in the case. Gathering dust. No support help, no anything! Not even looking into it. So, all I can say is goodluck, I pray you have a good experence with them. I know I haven't... and I'm tired of trying to get anything out of them. I'll be takeing this game up to EBGAMES and tradeing it off for a better worth while game. Thanks.

I'll make this short...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 19
Date: October 09, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Run around a so called 'battlefield' shooting at whatever moves, doing whatever you want, jumping like Bugs Bunny when you are being fired at.

Sit down with a sniper rifle and snipe down just respwaned player, as the 'respawn' point is one per team (Never seen soldiers 'respawn' in modern warfare).

Get in a vehicle and run over people. Wow.

And people dare to put the expressions 'Strategy' and 'Best piece of software ever created' in their list of BF2'positive things.

And I forgot to mention the wait of inserting the CD, have the program verify if it's original, watch the 10 min un-cancellable EA intro video, create an account, register it, have EA verify it, access the menu (Takes long enough to allow you a visit to the bathroom), access Gamespy (You can't access the sever list on your own apparently) suffer trough it's ads of 'register, pay money for some useless crap' access the server list (Which has no filters of ANY kind...), find a suitable game (Only about 4% or 6% have more than 8 players and less than 1700 ping, and there are more than three thousand servers), wait for the map to load, and finally wait for your character to respawn. 45 minutes, I checked it.

Nice try, EA, nice try. I say to you, better luck next time, as I do with every 'game' you release...

Total Garbage!!! EA has some nerve.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 22
Date: March 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

**Edited, I have decided to give this game a more clear headed review***

Where I have no doubt this game is great, in fact I myself would love to play it, EA has just simply lost touch with reality. When you design a game that can only be played with the most sophisticated system configurations, it tends to alienate your customer base. I mean there was a guy on EA's message boards yesterday that cannot play with a brand new Alienware Area 51 PC that probably ran anywhere from 3 to 5000 dollars. A machine that was tailor made for gaming.

I run a P4 2.6Ghz, 1GB Ram, and an ATI 9250 256MB DDR Video Card. This config is perfect for all video games in my opinion. Top of the line? No of course not but should be good enough. However everywhere I go I am met with "Your PC is too outdated." Yet Star Wars Battlefront 2 just got released, works fine. Call of Duty 2? No problems. This is the ONLY game I cannot play with my config. That should tell customers and the makers something. Now, even if Call of Duty didn't work do to conflicts, there is an option to dumb it down to DX7 and lower the graphics. However with BF2, the menus are so intensive that I do not even have a chance to lower settings.

I mean, it is just poor designing and planning on EA's part. If a card is still readily available on the market then video game producers should allow for all to play the games they release.

I took part in a survey last night to determine how outdated my PC was and as it turns out, my configuration made up 94% of all who took part and I believe the figures ran into a million and a half participants. Where 4% were lower end than mine and the other 2 were slightly higher.

Perhaps EA should take part in these before releasing the next title that cannot be played.

Don't buy unless you buy a new top of the line gaming PC first.

You will LOVE OPENING and CLOSING the BOX !

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 14
Date: August 13, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I say this because if you are like 80-90% of the people who bought this game and could not run it on their own state-of-the-art systems, that's about all you'll be doing with this game.

Even if you buy it thinking your system requirements are close enough, like I did, you will enter a lottery to determine if your video card is one of the mere TEN cards it supports. Again, not ten brands of cards, but TEN cards themselves.

I was severely disappointed with EA. I have been buying EA games with trust AND confidence since the company first opened its doors. After this disaster, I will never buy another EA game as long as I breathe. As I look at the specs on the box right now, it makes no mention that it only supports 10 cards. You do not find this out until you break the seal, thus rendering the game unreturnable to the store.

At any rate, there is no reason you need to pay full retail prices for this game to give the game a shot despite all the specification warnings you will be reading. Go to any of the known auction websites, even here at Amazon, and you will see hundreds of these games for sale by users who could only open and close the box the game comes in.

I am hardpressed to recommend a game that very, very few gamers can play whether it be online or offline. Send EA a message. Pass on this game and others that turn up their nose at the general gaming public.

GB
Capt USMC

Better have a good computer

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 21
Date: July 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

i gave this game only one star not because it isn't fun, i'm sure it is, i did because i never got a chance to play it. the system requirements are way to high for most peoples computers even mine which i thought was fairly good. probably the biggest thing is the requirement for the graphics card, it says it will run on a 128MB card but it is only compatible with the newest cards almost all of which are 256MB or higher so don't be fooled. If you have a new computer with alot of ram and a good graphics card have fun with it, if your not sure double check that your system meets the requirements so you don't end up wasting your money and getting a game that won't work at all like I did.

pack a lunch

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 23
Date: November 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

quit possibly one of the worst games I've ever wasted my money on. If you don't mind paying money to be EA's beta tester, go right ahead, waste your money. The load times on the game are beyond belief - just starting the game takes at least 5 minutes. And look out if you ever want to exit out of a game and change a setting, that'll take you 4-5 minutes each time. nd if you're not currently sitting on top of the most expensive, fastest, most powerful PC ever built, you can forget about running it even close to full resolution. These guys spend some much time trying to make their games look pretty, they forget about making them worth playing. Who cares if you can see sweat or stubble on a player's face if you have to sit for 5 minutes waiting to play!?

Terrible piece of crap this game is.

This game isn't worth the money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 23
Date: September 08, 2005
Author: Amazon User

To those of you who are going to buy this game, don't. This game has countless bugs. Whats hilarious is I have a computer with 82 GB of memory and a Radeon 9550. This game bugs up so much it isn't even funny. I fixed the problem then it came back. This game isn't worth the money. Unless they come out with a patch that fixes most of these problems Im not going to play it. The game bugged up and I uninstalled it. Right now it is sitting here collecting dust. Get some other game unless they release a patch that fixes most of the problems in this game.

Great gameplay, complete ripoff backstage

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 14
Date: October 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I like the gameplay, but having to run gamespy, download updates through fileplanet, etc. (Which you really have to do) makes it the best freeware on the planet... but you have to pay for it... get America's Army instead, youll spend like 10 hours finding your friends, like in this game, however AA is free.

The disadvantages of setting up, requiring a CD to run the game (bad for laptop users) and online play being run by gamespy instead of through an internal engine, makes you want to throw the game at the developers face.

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