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Darn good today, truly great tomorrow.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 130 / 160
Date: October 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I used to furrow my brow at the site of each new model of S-Class Mercedes, usually redone every 5 years or so. I can remember my father telling me that Mercedes designs cars to look good tomorrow, not today. He was right. With every model, like clockwork, after a year or so they'd start looking good, then great. My bet is Battlefield will be much like that. As truly fun as it is to play today, it'll be much better in a year or so.

Few quick reasons to love this game:

1. When you run it on a great machine the graphics/game physics are mindblowing.

2. The game encourages teamplay. I know, it's hard to imagine quake trained gamers playing medics, but over the past months since its release, the game is conditioning its players to team up. It's working, and it's really really fun to work with a good squad.

3. The game/network is very intelligent. Scarily intelligent. Everything you do on a ranked server is tracked forever. Everything. Gaining rank gets you new weapons and status you can leverage into a Commander position.

4. This game not only supports VOIP, but encourages it. Commanders can talk to squad leaders, squad leaders talk to their members, very good order.

5. Online play will frequently (i'm talking multiple times an hour) give you "one of those gaming moments". You know, when your pulse quickens, and you feel like you're really in the game. My girlfriend can hear me screaming from my downstairs (things that would make a pornstar blush). I'm not even cognizant of it.

6. Helicopters with TV guided rockets. Nuf said.

7. Command and control. If a side plays without a commander, odds are they'll lose. If one plays with few (if any) experienced squad leaders, they'll lose. Very cool and unique feature.

Reasons you might not want this game:

1. This is the most insane system-hog of a game I've ever encountered...very frustrating for even relatively good systems.

I've had high hopes for games of all genres over the past 2-3 years, I've reviewed many of them, some favorably, but I think BF2 is the best action First Person Shooter on the market (and probably will be for a few years). One reason for that belief is the extraordinary hardware requirements it demands to truly perform. I started playing it on a 3.3MHZ w/ best Geforce card, and 1Meg of RAM. It lumbered, and the graphics were subpar compared to other FPS's. I now have a freakin super-computer (dual cards, 4Megs RAM) and it runs like a different game. When hardware catches up, the underlying value of this game will get more appreciation vs. present-day frustration.

I've logged at least 70 hours on this game, and I learn something new every night. So many layers to uncover, then combine. I think this game still has allot to show people. And, like each redesigned model of Mercedes, will prove its true beauty over time.

Enjoy,

Christian Hunter
Santa Barbara, California

Great new BF game but bad preformance on most sytems and cards!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 73 / 105
Date: July 27, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I have been playing the BF series for about a year now and I am not going to say anything new that the other reviewers haven't said about this game. If you like combat and single/multiplayer battles then you should like this game. As far as I know there is no other game out there right now that has the commander mode to the effect of accually commanding AI in a single player game to attack at specified locations on the map or scan the map for the ememy's location and call in artillery to hinder the ememy's advance. No other game right now has the squad based warfare in both sing/multi gameplay modes like Battlefield 2 has. This is an intovation in the new era of not only war gaming but multiplayer gaming period!

Now I am not a big multiplayer fan simply because I find in multiplayer games there is hacking and cheating no matter if punk buster is enabled or not because there is always someone smart enough to speed hack into someones server just to many computer literate people out there not to break the rules so I tend to go solo a lot in single player. We'll here's the deal and I don't care what anyone say's. The single player server in this game can be just as challenging if not more dificult then playing online. Why? The AI is scripted depending on your level of dificulty to advance and defend they're territory as much as possible and if need be make the nesasary sacrifices to overcome their ememy. It's true that the map and amount of bots are to the mim. in single player but if you just look out there you can find mods that integrate 32 and even 64 sized maps into single player with the number of bot increased as we'll. This may sound great but I've been having problems with my game crashing on me when playing one of these mods so I tried setting my game spec's down a little. Same thing. Just keep in mind that even though you can get the bot and map sized increased in these mods, most likely your system won't be able to haddle it.

Now for the system spec's..............this is where the game fails why? Because they could of used a different engine and required less memory or push on your system's processor and graphics card and still would of had decent graphics and better overall gameplay but EA took the route that most game developers do not dare. Why? They figure that even if you can't play it now you will eventually upgrade your computer in the future like most of us do and will eventually be able to play it in the years to come as technology advances at an alarming rate. Why does this matter you say? Because then they have created a much broader selling time frame than most game's that come out have. Due to it just being a Battlefield series type game and the popularity of these type's of games it is sure to sell years down the road. Look at Battlefield 42. it's still selling even though most of us have moved on to the BF Vietnam series pervious to this release and the Desert Combat and other mods for BF42. Now that's good marketing but bad for the customer because he will have to pay money and lots of it to play this game. I did! Just like most people here went out and bought the best I could afford graphics card (GF 6660 GT) and was literally let down by the games overall preformance. I wish I would have just kept my 5200 GF Nvidia because despite what they say on the box it does work on older graphics cards but you just can't set it much above the lowest settings. Who cares as long as it runs smooth right? So I am disapointed a little with the games preformace especially with a brand new GF 6600 card? Gee, maybe I should have bought the 6800? This is stupid. HL 2 and Doom 3 have 10 x better compatabilty than this game which I think they have lost a percentage of clientel at least temporarly due to the games requirements on your system until the general PC population catches up in a year or two. This is bad business to me but hey, they are just wanting to make a profit just like everyone else and not at your conveniance. So you can see I feel alittle jaded somewhat with the system requirements only because since I have been gaming I have never had any problem with any game's preformance until now even with an updated graphics card? This makes me think that the problem is within the game's coding and not my system itself so don't be fooled. Think about it. Let them come out with some patches before you get serious and buy this if you haven't already.

So, if your looking for a good time on the BF like in 42 and NAM then give er' a try just be warned unless you have an AlienWare PC system, blazing processor and 2 GB's of RAM not to mention an 7800 GF graphics card, then this review doesn't apply to you at all!

Outstanding game ruined by terrible business decisions.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 12 / 13
Date: December 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The Battlefield series has been a gaming powerhouse, well known for its wildly intense and exhilerating multiplayer experience. Battlefield 2 and its expansion, Special Forces, are no exceptions. That much everyone knows.

However, I want you to know about something that isn't widely examined in reviews. Multiplayer games are dependent on servers. For MMORPG's, the game publisher handles the operation of the servers. For just about everyone else, it's a free for all, and the gaming software includes the software to run a dedicated server. Install BF1942, hunt down a certain shortcut, double click, and you've got a dedicated server that 32 players can connect to. Sounds great, works great.

This produced a phenomenon in the web hosting business of people who would pay a monthly fee to have a game server hosted for them. For say $50 a month, you could run your dream server 24/7. Players jumped at the opportunity, and this developed into a pretty lucrative business.

Enter Electronic Arts.

They saw the business opportunity and thought "how can we maximize our profits on the game by taking advantage of this?" Their answer was the marketing angle of the ranking system. When you play Battlefield 2, you use an account tied to your CD key, and that account tracks and rewards your score over time. Higher ranked players take precedence when requesting the Commander slot, they have weapons unlocked, they receive general recognition as veteran players, it's all very nice and fun.

But one of those MBA chimpanzees at EA, who no doubt will be fired in 14 months after this all shakes out, put together two synapses and realized that this system would require game servers to somehow be authenticated as ranked. Otherwise, I could set up my dedicated server and start whoring points any way I could manage to, and easily inflate the ranking system. The chimpanzee's thought was to have EA charge hosting companies a preset fee per player per month for ranked servers, in addition to having some preset requirements.

So, rather than $50 a month for that great server, we're now looking at $8 per player per month for servers, in a game where maps are best played at the 64 player level. That churns out to over $6000 per year for a game server. Well beyond the means of normal players. What you're left with are servers run by hosting companies for advertising, and servers run by very dedicated and very large clans.

There aren't many of either, so at this moment in time, there are exactly 14 servers that, in DFW, I ping well enough to to play, that have over 15 players on them. That's a serious problem for a top-selling multiplayer game. It means that you're playing king of the hill just to jockey for a spot on a server you like, on the team you want. Usually an uphill battle against clans who can systematically monopolize a team's assets.

Throw in two absolutely malicious players, invariably on the two best servers (best for map rotation, ping, player count, stability, etc.), and the experience is totally ruined. You fight to get in to the game, you fight to find any player who cares about teamwork, you fight against clans who've monopolized the team assets, and you fight against malicious players on your own team who abuse your own assets such that your team can't possibly win. At the end of the day, you've spent more time fighting the players over the ability to play, than you've spent actually playing.

EA's business decision makes any good experience in Battlefield 2 an unlikely outcome. Their best game is ruined by their inability to empathize with the needs of their customers. This is a common thread throughout the history of Electronic Arts, and one which destroys the value of Battlefield 2.

The Best War Simulator

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 11
Date: November 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Want to play the best single player war game? Then go play Call of Duty 2. Want to play the best SWAT type tactical? Then go get Half-Life 2 and play Counter-Strike: Source which goes through periodic updates. Want to play the best multiplayer war game? Then before you even consider playing Day of Defeat: Source, go directly for Battlefield 2 instead which is certainly what you have been looking for and probably more. As a sequel to Battlefield 1942 (one of the best multiplayer games ever devised) it is well worthy of its predecessor's name but abandons its World War II premise for modern twenty-first century urban and rural warfare. As the game is built for multiplayer the single player campaigns do not do it justice. You really need to have a broadband connection and join a server to see the game the way it was meant to be played. Player statistics are monitored on-line and allow you to improve in rank and receive new weapons (unlocks). This makes it highly competitive. The same player classes are retained from BF1942 with some additional ones - sniper, machine gunner, anti-tank, medic, engineer, assault and support. The big bonus is the amount of new vehicles that the game has to offer, such as several types of planes, helicopters, tanks and cars. BF2 is one big CTF (capture the flags) with a huge array of photorealistic maps to play in. At player spawn you are given a wide choice of weapons and classes to choose from. Then you have the option of either working as a unit, driving a vehicle (that can also act as carriers) or just leaving your team behind and going on a solo mission frag-a-thon across a vast map (and these are some of the biggest maps ever made). Where BF1942 gave us the historical Pearl Harbor, Petersburg, German Forests, French Country, Operation Overlord, multiplayer style, BF2 goes for made-up non-historical global wars that have a futuristic atmosphere about them. Essentially you will play wars that have yet to be fought with the exception of several Iraq and Middle East type maps. It feels prophetic. The graphics are certainly heaps and bounds ahead of BF1942 giving us better textures, right down to photorealistic grass that you crawl through and branches on bushes that you can snipe behind. You can dash at very fast speeds until your stamina runs out. Explosions rock the world around you, can stun you and send pieces flying through the air. When a black hawk is downed in the town square it destroys everything around it on impact. Medics can revive dying team-mates. This is some of the best multiplayer entertainment you have ever seen. It is the biggest war game that people play online with a very large community (so large that you will find difficulty in choosing a login name for your ID) meaning plenty of 60 player (30/30) servers up and running and for you to join. All though you might just want to start running across a map shooting all around you, as in a real war this approach will probably just get you killed. The game itself takes days to grasp with patients that you must master. You must ensure that for bug free gaming to download and install the latest BF2 patch (currently 1.12 at this time of writing) which prevents crashing to desktop and has extra maps. Never use a CD-DVD crack with BF2 as they don't work. Instead either use the CD-DVD or learn how to load a BF2 mini-image. To be honest the quality of technical support is not the best (but does not make the game experience less) and could be a little clearer. The community is less responsive to answering questions and without something like IRC (internet relay chat) it can be difficult to find a channel of users who are willing to help you learn more about how to play the game. Another gripe is that this game has the hardest controller configuration that simply does not have to be as difficult as it is to program. BF1942 had this problem also. Sadly BF2 hasn't bothered to solve it. A major con is in the load times. High end systems take about two and a half minutes to load each map. The menu screens are not instant. Before Operation Flashpoint 2 brings us the best war multiplayer simulator ever conceived we still want to be able to play a multiplayer war game that will match the experience of Call of Duty 2 on a server with up to 64 players. BF2 does just that.

Pros:
- Multiplayer must-have.
- Fairly realistic simulation experience that you will play again and again.
- The only World War II simulation worth playing on-line right now.
- Good game engine. Solid Gaming.
- Replaces Operation Flashpoint and BF1942 and Day of Defeat: Source as the best on-line war simulation game.
- Really big player numbers of servers.
- Massive Maps.

Cons:
- Needs updating and this is not made clear on the EA website.
- Needs broadband.
- Steep learning curve.
- Long load up times.
- System resource heavy.

Best FPS Game to Date...but only for online play

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: January 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

After months of listening to my friends talk about how great BF2 is, I finally broke down and installed this mother of all First Person Shooters (FPS). I am usually more of a Civilization type of player, and typically can't stand playing online multiplayer games. But, I was pleasantly suprised by BF2. For those that are complaining that they "got half the game for the full price", please keep in mind that the Battlefield series of games are intended to be played online. This is NOT a standalone, singleplayer game. With that said, if you have a broadband connection, BF2 is probably the best online gaming experience you are likely to experience with any other game currently on the market.

The Good:
- Hours of online, cooperative multiplayer wargaming.
- Wow factor: Even my wife, watching over my shoulder, was amazed at how life-like the game looks. It really, literally, feels like you are on a modern battlefield.
- Replay value: Lots of unlocks, several different factions, two more expansion packs coming this year, the game has tons of replayability.

The Bad:
- You will need a kickass system. I have a 3 gig Pentium 4 and 512 megs of RAM, with a new ATI graphics card, and, the game can sometimes chug on high settings. Set your graphics to medium or upgrade your RAM.
- LONG LOAD TIMES. I have never experienced load times like this. Most games on my system have only a few seconds load time between maps and game sections. If you thought the load time in TheSims2 was bad, you're in for a rude shocker: load times in BF2 can take up to five minutes (though most run up in three or four). Be patient and grab a coke while you wait.
- Difficult installation: Once you install the game for the first time, in order to play online (which, like I said earlier, is a MUST), you will need to download the latest update. This is a huge quarter-gig file that takes a long time to download from the official server (took me about an hour with my DSL connection). I also had to download the patch twice, as, the first file I downloaded was corrupted (download from the official EA server, not from a 3rd party site like filefront).

Overall, I would HIGHLY recomment Battlefield 2 for any gamer that enjoys First Person Shooters, or, for any gamer in the mood for hours of online multiplayer combat.

Great fun and MASSIVE amount of bugs

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: June 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Ok, to start. I have had this game since day one. This game is great fun, when it works. I love the fact that you have the ability to work in squads and the total teamwork environment is fantastic. Granted you need people willing to work together to take advantage of this but the fact is the game gives you the option. Graphics are top notch. However, EA has totally dropped the ball in terms of customer service and they have released what is essentially a Beta game at finished game prices.

Lets start with the problems. First, regardless of what EA claims the minimum hardware requirements are, dont try to play this game with anything less than a top of the line gaming system. EA "says" that you can play this game with 512Mb of RAM. Dont even try. You may be able to get away with 1Gig but during start up BF2 can eat up 1.3 Gigs of ram, so if you have less, it starts to lag, lock up, and generally give you serious problems. If I were to write the minimum requrements they would be as follows.

2 GHZ CPU
ATI 1600 or better (or equivilent Nvidia card) video card with at LEAST 256 Mb onboard ram
2 gig of ram (MINIMUM!!)

Next lets talk bugs. For all intents and purposes, this is a beta game. This game should never have been released in this condition. Graphic errors, gameplay errors, team errors, vehichle errors, and the list goes on. I'm just going to mention a couple of errors that EA is aware of but will not fix. First is what in the game we call the "red/blue bug". The way the teams work is that "your team" has blue names, and the "enemy team" has red names. Regardless of which side you play on. Frendly soldiers are always blue from your perspective. Now there is a bug that has friendly soldiers show up as red so that you cant know that they are on your team. If you kill them you loose points, and if you play on "ranked" servers (ones that track your play for ranks and weapon unlocks), after a few "TK's" (team kills), you get kicked or banned. This bug has been known about since the games release and we have now had seven (or is it eight) patches for the game and they still have not addressed this issue. Some may say this sounds like a minor bug, but the fact is this is just an example, that EA has not addressed. Some other bugs are.. missles that lock onto friendlies, weapons that pass through solid objects, "dalphin diving", "bunny hopping", and this is just the beginning.

Next lets talk about the so called expansion pack and "booster" packs. Not only did EA rush this game to the market before it was ready. They also rushed the exapansion pack "Battlefield 2: Special Forces" with all the same bugs as the first one. Now, when I say expansion pack, this sounds like it should be able to play along with BF2, right? WRONG!!! While some of the weapon, your rank, and your awards are transferable between the two. NONE of the maps are able to be played together. You cannot have a server that plays both BF2 and BF2:SF at the same time. That is the whole point to an expansion pack!! An expansion pack is supposed to enance the original game. This does not. Then does EA give you any new maps or enhancements to the game? Again NO. Instead they give you "booster packs". All these do is give you a few new maps (Euro Forces gave you 4 I think), two new weapons, a couple of vehichles, and a new Army. Thats it!!! Any other game company would have given you these in a patch to thank you for putting up with the errors that they were correcting. Not EA, they want you to beta test the game for you then charge you more for what should have come with the game in the first place. Finally, EA has NO customer service. Their web site says "maximum 24 hour response". I have never got a response from them in less than 6 days. Usually up to two weeks for a response (if they respond at all). Their customer service on the phone is rude and anything but helpful. They dont care about their customers or their game. All they care about is that they got your money.

My final judgement. If you can live with being a game beta tester and you have fifty dollars that you dont want anymore, then go for it. If you dont have the money to throw away, look for another game from a company that cares for its customers.

I know this sounds like a disgruntaled customer review. And to some extent it is true. However, take this into consideration. I have had the game since it came out and I still play it daily. I am used to the bugs and errors, and they frustrait me to no end. But for cooperative play, its hard to beat this game. I have made lots of friends in this game and we have a lot of fun with it. But we already spent our money on it, so we may as well get our moneys worth. Would we buy it again? No way. Will we buy the next BF game? Probally not. Unless EA gets it together and finishes a game before it is released (we expect some problems of course, there are always problems, but the game should be stable prior to release, which this game is NOT and still is NOT after 7-8 patches.)

singleplayers should look elsewhere! Only Half the game for the full price!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: January 16, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I admit it's enjoyable to play, but it's really frustrating knowing you can't access all the features of the game in singleplayer. You get half a game for the full price. I have played online, and i just don't care for it much because of the numerous problems with servers booting you off for who knows what For example, forgetting to stop in the middle of the 'heat of battle' and apologize for teamkills, or missing the little message that tells you how to forgive someone for teamkilling you. I got booted for too many teamkills when I hadn't killed any teammates. There also don't seem to be that many newbie servers where you can go to learn the mp rules and practice.

I just don't have the time for figuring out all the ins and outs of multiplayer at this point in my life. I might consider a LAN party at some point, but for now singleplayer is my main option.

You're also limited to the smaller maps in singleplayer, and smaller numbers of bots. There are tweaks you can do (if you know what you're doing) to increase the number of bots, and possibly the size of the maps, but as I understand it the bots won't know what to do with the expanded maps. In the expanded territory, it doesn't add to the number of control points or special equipment/vehicles etc. in those areas either, it just give you more room to run around alone. Yippee. So far no one has come up with a mod that allows you to access all the features of the game as single player.

You also can't unlock new weapons kits unless you play online on ranked servers and earn them, ANDn the endless hours of play needed to earn them seems a bit ludicrous to me! it seems to be made for people who have no other life, don't go to school or work and never eat or sleep.

I would like to be able to access the whole game as a single player at home, even if none of that stuff works on multiplayer unless I earn it on ranked servers.

This seems to be a common complaint on most of the forums I've researched, and with all the modders out there you'd think they'd have come up with a mod that addresses these things by now, if it wasn't that difficult to do. I'm about ready to start looking into it myself, but as a full time mom with three kids and two dogs and a part time job besides that, it just isn't that feasible.

Another problem is the realism. Why is it that a shot to the head doesn't drop anyone? I can't imagine that putting a 3 round burst of 5.56mm , or a single 7.62mm round into someone's skull from any distance, would allow them to continue on their merry way and turn around and shoot you dead (with the first shot, no less) from 75 yards with an mp5. It's a darn good things those medics can cure any injury with those shock paddles, if only they can get to you.

One thing about the AI that annoys me is that all the bots clump together. I realize pathfinding is the most difficult part of all to program for. But man, clumping together is the best way to get killed. I tend to sneak around and flank, but even if I tell the bots to follow me, they may comply for about two seconds and then go back to what they were doing. I think the Tom Clancy games handled this kind of teamwork AI far better, and without needing the high system specs that BF2 and BF2:SF require. I have enjoyed all of the Clancy games far more, with the exception of Splinter Cell - too simple and easy.

Hmmm

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 10 / 15
Date: June 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Well, this review is from playing the Demo multiplayer level, not the full game. But, even in this short of a span I already know this isn't a game I'm going to put my money down on. I played BF 1942 and loved it. This game looks very vehicle dependent. Being on foot is pretty worthless. Even if you are an anti-tank player, it really does no good as the anti-tank missles don't home in and are almost impossible to get a kill on a vehicle at almost any distance. There are aircraft all ove the place, as well as anti-aircraft missle turrets you can jump into. The only problem is they are "suppose" be be heat seaking missles, but almost NEVER hit their target. The aircraft can drop flares to throw off the homing ability, but even when they never drop flares, I was only ONCE able to get a kill. So, for the most part, aircraft can fly around unapposed.

You'll find yourself getting killed from no where a lot. I'll be running along and all of a sudden I'm dead. I don't know where it came from, or what it was. It gives you an indicator to show what direction it is coming from, but you almost never see what is shooting at you.

If you love spawn killing, then this game is for you. I would spawn into a base and have a tank 15 feet from me pointed right at me. You don't even have a chance to move before you are dead. And for those of you that played BF 1942 and remember how bad spawn killing could be, it's 10 times worse now.

The sniper is hard to use. I would shoot and shoot and shoot sometimes at a motionless target, yet they wouldn't die. Maybe this game doesn't let you shoot as far as you can see, I don't know. Part of the problem is the scope itself. With one of the sniper rifles, the crosshairs block what you are trying to aim at. You can't really try to go for a head shot, because you can't tell if you are on the head because the crosshairs are always in the way. With the other sniper I used, it used a crosshair system I wasn't use to, and I could never tell if I was even getting close.

To me this game was exactly like the BF 1942 mod Modern Combat. The vehicles are the same, weapons are pretty much the same, and even has some of the same problems that Modern Combat had, like the difficulty using sniper scopes and the dependency on vehicles. If you like the Modern Combat mod, then this game may be for you. But, I never could get into it, and I can't get into this game either.

fun, unrealistic, buggy

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 9 / 13
Date: October 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Ill start out by saying if you like casual basic shooting games for new gamers like unreal and halo youll like this, if you like tactical simulators like operation flashpoint youll probably find this game a bit cartoonish.

I LIKED: 1.if you have a fast pc and faster internet service the online play is fast paced

2. aicraft physics are better than bf1942

3.cool unlockable guns

4.awesome sound quality

STRANGE: 1. The maps arent big enough to use the jets, you will fly out of the map limit before you are even able to figure out youve
taken off.

2. sniper rifles dont move at all as they did in bf1942, you can stand looking through your scope and it will not drift what so ever

3. the the americans, arabs, and chinese, dont look american arabic or chinese

4. no tactics involved, simply find a spot and wait for people to walk into your line of fire, plays more like duke nukem than a military trainer

5. people online think its really hilarious to drive cars into airplanes, helicopters into buildings etc and other "kamakazi" stuff that happens when youre playing a game aimed at the casual audience

I should add that i no longer play this game, i reinstalled it hoping some of the bugs or lag would go away and no it will not reinstall due to various errors, even though the discs are in perfect condition, so the other reviewers arent just saying its buggy because they have wal mart computers, the game is just twitchy

BF2 a Great Disappointment

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 8 / 11
Date: July 14, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I am not often moved to write reviews, but as an fan of the old Battlefield games, and subsequently a rabid Joint Operations player, I was really looking forward to what I was hoping would be a "best of both worlds" combination of modern-day weapons, squad-based play, and strategy. I pre-ordered and ripped the package open eagerly when it arrived, even forsaking work (I'm an adult player who's blessed with working at home) to get the game going.

What I got was maps so tiny they couldn't possibly accommodate the speed and scope of a modern battlefield, a game SO squad based that you could forget about serious strategy, an environment that encouraged a lot of players to ignore squads, servers with SEVERE lags (even in the "learn the game" play against AI scenarios, and I have high-end hardware with updated drivers). If you're a run 'n gun player, you'll love it. If you want something that even REMOTELY simulates "the real thing," forget it. You'd be far better off playing JO with the brilliant Reality Mod from Brutal Arts.

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