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A simple review

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 13 / 22
Date: November 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Ok, first off this is a great game...it really is. However, just like BF2 when it came out, it was buggy as sin. This is no different. I have so far only been able to run a stable game for about 10 - 15 minutes on select maps before the game crashes to desktop. And no, i assure you before you assume, its not my hardware. Hardware wise, i'm top of the line. However I did hear a rumor about BF2 pulls almost 1gb of RAM when set on high. But like I said, great game (as far as ive played it.) Just wait a patch or two to purchase it.

successors live down to the low standard set by BF2

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: March 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I strongly recommend against buying this game, this expansion pack or any of the "booster packs." They're poorly designed and badly programmed. That's not the drama you're looking for.

Just bought the Euro Trash "booster pack" to this and BF2.

Available only on line and via the EA Downloader, the booster pack was easy to install. All *three* of the new maps showed up immediately in the Single Play maps list.

But none of them work in either single or on-line play: The maps have been installed and are recognized by the game, but not by the servers (either on-line or locally). Typical EA incompetence exacerbated by a uniquely EA inept user interface.

Since the booster pack successfully installed, the EA downloader won't re-install. I can hardly wait for the technical support staff to suggest I uninstall both of the BF2s, then reinstall both the original and the expansion pack, then reinstall both of the patches, and then re-download the downloader so it can re-install the booster pack.

Three hours of installation for every hour of on-line fun!

Must escape! Warn others!

Special Forces is not worth the money

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: March 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I am a competitive adult Battlefield2 gamer and purchased this xpack (Special Forces expansion pack) since most of my gaming friends had it. We rarely play it anymore and stick primarily to the default BF2 maps.

This is not a new game and is nothing more than a few add ons for BF2 which should be free. Most publishers issue free updates and maps after the game has been out for a while. Special Forces is just a way to extort money from EA's existing customer base by offering an expansion that is not as good as the original.

Special Forces lags far worse than BF2 and is buggy causing frequent crashes and freezes. When you install it your BF2 installation reverts to an earlier version. There are fewer servers and fewer skilled players so the servers that do exist tend to be unexiting and full of relatively poor players.

Don't take a chance

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: April 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is very buggy. You may or may not be able to play it due to serious errors due to memory management. Patches routinely fail requiring a complete uninstall or manual uninstall with a registry edit. It took me 20+ hours of tweaking to get the patches to work and after patching I got a memory.dll sanity check error (no I'm not kidding, google it) and it still will not work. The thing that really gets me is that my system FAR exceeds the minimum requirement, in fact it exceeds the recommended requirements and my video card is spicifically named as supported.

Love BF2, hate this......

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: December 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

All I can say is the content is very cool. Like BF2 but better with more equipment toys to play with, however the playability of this game is on average awful.

I have a 64-bit Athlon XP4000, which is one of the fastest CPU's around at the time of writing this. I have 2 GB of RAM and a GForce 6800GT video card. The video card was released about 1 year ago and still is respectable and I guessing here but probably on par with or better than the average gamer has. Typically I run BF2 at 1024 x 768 resolution and all video set to medium to get a good fast frame per second (FPS) level. FPS is king when going toe to toe in a gun fight. And BF2 plays great. Of course you have to have a good server, anything under 100 ms ping and it plays great.

Special ops plays anywhere from 3 FPS to maybe 1/3 of the typical FPS I saw in BF2. And worst yet it varies a lot, and no it's not the server and the task manager shows only BF2 hogging the CPU. Interesting though that there are two different BF2 SF's related exe's running now. I believe there where only one exe running in BF2. Maybe they multithreaded this sucker for the dual CPU's?

I've played a lot of different servers and it is consistantly bad compared to BF2. This reminds me of that other turkey EA released, battlefield Vietnam, boy was that game bad all the way around.

This game could be good if they fixed it but why buy it game they shouldn't have released. Wait until you start hearing that they have fixed all of the problems with this game before going near it. I wish I did, I loved BF2 and now I don't even want to play anymore because it is AWFUL! And why should I spend my free time looking for potiential fixes for all the issues, that I time I used to game with. It's not my job to fix their bad programming.

Pass on Special Forces. Get "BF2 Euro Force" INSTEAD!!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: April 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I read two public reviews on Amazon. To comment on those reviews, I don't know about bugs too much. My Special Forces Expansion Pack seems to work properly. But, I do not write to contest people who claim of program bugs. I still have yet to play this "expansion pack" on-line, so the reviews might be accurate for that. I played several games off-line, in one-player mode, and everything there worked okay.

After playing some rounds, I down-loaded the patches and installed them. At first, I installed only the most recent patch and then, when I tried to run the game after installing the patch, the game did not function properly. With a little reading of fine print, I realized I was supposed to install another patch previously released, and so I then down-loaded that other patch.

Apparently, certain patches must be installed in a specific order. If you down-load (DL) the patches in increments (called incremental patches), you don't have to DL the one humongous patch, if you've already DLed a previous incremental patch. In other words, you only need to DL the ones you didn't already install, but you need the big patch if you never installed any of those incrementals.

Back to my story, after DLing and installing the previous incremental, THEN I HAD TO RE-INSTALL THAT LATER PATCH, which, lucky for me, I did not erase from my computer. So, my game works fine in 1-player mode, although I did not try it on-line.

I read here that people are using "Special Forces" (BF2 SF) weapons in the regular "Battlefield 2" (BF2) on-line games, and this I witnessed, first-hand. The reviews I read on Amazon charged this negatively, and I sympathize; however, I don't REALLY feel offended by that fact as much as they do. I still support the competence of the reviews, and am grateful to the mention of this item, even if I don't necessarily find it as a fault.

What fault I do observe with BF2 SF is that this so-called "expansion pack" doesn't really feel like an expansion pack, but another totally separate game. If this game IS an expansion pack, why can I not access these maps in combination with other maps of the normal BF2 game? Did I make a mistake when I installed everything? Perhaps. Perhaps not. I don't know.

I already have a good time with the normal BF2 game. I don't need to pay more money for BF2 SF because it doesn't add that much of an attraction: I don't even play it on-line. To me, it's just a distraction.

HOWEVER, I would like to go on-record to support that extra $10 game, Battlefield 2 Euro Force (BF2 EF) with the three extra maps, including the very-difficult-but-fantastic "Great Wall", a map based on the Great Wall of China. The two maps and the "Great Wall" are all VERY well done. And, the great thing is I can play it in combination along with my regular BF2 maps.

I think people might dislike the "Great Wall" at first because of its difficulty. In my opinion, I think it's a great addition to the series that I cannot do without. The "Great Wall" is simply my favorite map. It's as kinetically charged as any of the city maps of BF2, but even moreso. I specifically like the armed battles that happen atop the 15-feet-wide wall. It reminds me of the little castle-and-knights toys I used to play with when I was a little boy.

Anyone who owns and plays on-line with the regular BF2, yet does not wish to blow their time and their $35 with BF2 Special Forces, should not miss the Euro Force edition. DL it, and install it. It's only $10. Great buy!!

Not just vanilla BF2 with a few gimmicks

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: March 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Special Forces turned out to be a great addition to the game. The ranked server system in BF2 provides the developers with vast information about how the game is being played. They have hordes of statistical data available to them on what is popular (and effective) and what isn't. And it shows!

Special Forces very specifically focuses on the kinds of elements that are most popular in vanilla BF2. Most particularly infantry combat.

You don't have to spend your time butting heads with your buddies about who will drive the tank in this one. You've go pleanty to do on foot. Vehicles become the spice rather than the must have.

It's really not just more of the same thing you had with vanilla BF2. It's still the same basic core, but the flavor is different. It's like chocolate versus vanilla ice cream. They're both ice cream, but they do taste different.

And it's not because of the grappling hooks, zip lines, flash bangs, etc. Those are just gimmicks. They're fun, but they don't particularly alter the feel of the game. Rather, the different feel of SF is pervasive throughout the entire game. It's something a little more intangible than a couple of features. Everything about it... the weapons... the maps... has a different emphasis and purpose. It's like seeing the same world around you in a different light.

And it's oh so good. I actually prefer SF over the original BF2. But I still play both regularly.

Now... to address some of the comments made in other reviews here...

Yes, if you have SF, you will be able to bring some of the SF weapons into vanilla BF2 servers with you. No, these weapons are not better. They have a different flavor to them, but they're not actually better or worse than the other weapons. That's right, even the F2000 isn't an overpowered weapon. Lots of people think its obviously better than the other assault rifles, but imho the reality is that it's just more shiny. It's actual stats fall inbetween the other assault rifles.

When SF first came out, everyone was afraid flash bangs would totally ruin the vanilla BF2 experience. While I think their inclusion on vanilla servers was the most questionable move the developers made, it really had no such impact. For the first couple of weeks, of course, it was flash bang city. But when the novelty wore off, flash bang usage became fairly rare. I think people eventually realized that, had it been a real grenade, it would have killed the enemy outright rather than just blinding them temporarily.

Lastly, if you're only interested in jets, you definatley won't like SF. There are no air craft in any of the SF maps. The air craft in vanilla BF2 are overpowered in terms of game balance and tend to overwhelm the game... life without them is grand, imho. The new helos are a blast, though.

Imho, if you like BF2, you really have to get SF. Not because you _have_ to, but because it's just too much fun to pass up.

Great maps

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: June 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

There are some great maps and guns added with this expansion. With the v1.3 patch, the game (and specifically this expansion) is solid enough to give this game praise. When the game first came out, I couldn't have said as much.

But at this point, this is a safe and fun purchase, and a must have for any Battlefield 2 fan.

BF2 is good, this adds a little, but not much and many have problems

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: January 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

BF2 (the main game), is a decent game. It has really high system requirements and even if you meet them you should surpass what EA says you need and still you might have to turn down the graphics. Overall, the playability factor is good. I was hoping it would be A LOT better than the great game Desert Combat, but it might be only so-so better. This expansion pack is buggy and I have some crash issues (already had some, so really more), and it has some new guns that are good, but not great. It also has some vehicals that are just whatever and the maps are only so-so too. Playing the night maps is frusterating and I want to shoot and move, not bumble around in the dark. Overall. you can avoid this and still play on the normal BF2 servers, and I do not think the new guns are good enough to put you at that much of a disadvantage, almost no disadvantage.

Lastly, I am waiting still, for some company to come out with a game that is great as what so many of us are imagining in our heads as far as MODERN military combat and vehicals (what is with the WW2 overkill with games). Anyway, if you really like BF2, buy this. If you think BF2 is pretty good, but don't play a lot, avoid this, if you don't know what "First Person Shooter" means, this isn't for you.

Take Care, Sam

Buggy...Night maps are horrible

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: January 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I would only buy this game if you would like some nice weapon unlocks. There are some OK day maps, but none compare to the original BF2 maps. The night maps are HORRIBLE. The new weapons which get unlocked from game, can be used on all BF2 maps, which may make the game worth the purchase price when the price falls a little more.

I only rated this game 3 stars. It is after all BF2 and even though it sucks compared to the original BF2, it is still better than alot other combat FPS games I've played.

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