![]() You can also call for aid from medics, heavy weapons guys who carry spare ammo of all types, engineers for repairs and backup in general. You can also pick up the troop kits of deceased ally and enemy troops which can be handy as you tend to burn through ammo quite quickly in the (seemingly endless) firefights. The various troop kits can also be changed before each re-spawn so if you are being overwhelmed by enemy tanks then re-spawning as an anti-tank or engineer (mines and explosive charges) may be good choices. Each troop kit has its own particular capabilities in addition to the weapons carried, for example the medic can heal wounds and the engineer lay mines or repair vehicles. The weapons load-outs are fairly generic for each troop type in vanilla BF2 but can be quite varied in the various mods. I preferred playing as one of the various infantrymen types or as a tank driver/gunner rather than trying to fly any type of aircraft alas I'm several hundred flying hours short of getting my pilot's license. That said, it is great FUN, though far from realistic for an infantryman, to jump on board and drive a tank and fire its main gun and MG or pilot a fighter plane. You select the battle (or map), adjust the difficulty, pick your side, usually Western forces of some kind (mainly US or NATO in most mods) or terrorists (of various kinds, usually the generic "middle eastern" variety), pick your weapon's load out (troop kit) and spawn point and away you go. There is no need to look deeper as that is all there is to the BF series games. Like the other Battlefield series titles, the "missions" in BF2 require you to attack enemy bases (flags) and defend friendly and captured bases (flags). The missions, while overwhelmingly generic, do offer a good variety of weapons and vehicles, vessels, and aircraft to try and maps to explore. BF2 missions are focused on capturing and/or defending objectives and have no single player character or narrative (apart from the usually extremely brief mission briefing screen which gives you the setting). My review of BF2/SF/EF/AF is based on a SP play through of all the official EA missions/maps as both sides against AI bots and indeed many of the maps/missions in the numerous mods. ![]() BF2 and its add-ons, official and otherwise, make BF2 a desert island FPS game as there is enough variety through its add-ons and mods to keep replaying. ![]() BF2, together with its SF/EF/AF add-ons, however is eminently enjoyable in its own right and even more so through the excellent mods available. While I vanilla BF1942 and BFV are reasonable games it is the third party mods that make these games truly enjoyable. My most recent BF series acquisitions are the oldest, BF1942, and the reasonably recent BF Bad Company 2, which is as yet unplayed. I came to the BF FPS series somewhat late after playing story-driven and/or mission-based FPS games like COD, MOH, Rainbow Six, and SOF2. Nowadays you get the Euro Force (EF), Armored Fury (AF) booster packs for free as part of the v1.5 patch. I own BF2 Deluxe Edition which comes with the Special Forces (SF) expansion. But the multitude of maps and terrain, the ability top play for either faction, the vast array of weapons, the ability to drive/operate a variety of vehicles, and the fact that one is never out of the action for long keeps me coming back for more. Also the capture - hold - recapture gameplay dynamic of the SP version of BF2 would normally become quite repetitive after an hour or so. I do prefer story driven single player (SP) games and have only rarely ventured into online multiplayer (MP) so BF2 would seem an awkward fit for me. I had previously reviewed both the JO and BF2 games and mods in November 2008 here on GameSpot but both needed to be revisited.īattlefield 2 (BF2) and its various official EA add-ons and third party mods makes for one great, highly replayable, modern era first person shooter (FPS). It really was a trip down memory lane and followed on from playing and reviewing, for the first time, BF1942 earlier in 2011. By Perth2008 | Review Date: MaDuring the 2011-2012 Christmas and New Year holiday period I reinstalled a couple of FPS games I had not played since 2008 namely the Joint Operations: Combined Arms game from 2004 (comprising JO Typhoon Rising and JO Escalation) and the Battlefield 2 Deluxe Edition from 2005 (which includes Special Forces and now with the latest BF2 v1.5 patch the two booster packs, Euro Force and Armored Fury, are available for free). ![]()
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