Battlefield 2 review:5 stars (The best game I've ever played.) - If you like FPS (first person shooter) games - this is perhaps the best multiplayer game ever made. The game provides you with the flexibility to choose whether you want to fight in the air, in a ground vehicle such as a tank or as one of several types of infantry soldiers. Therefore you can choose your own style: do you want to be a quiet and patient sniper waiting for the enemy to come into view? Do you want to go hunt tanks? Do you want to be a team player and support your squad/teamates by healing them or supplying them with ammo?

Pros:
- graphics and sound are superb
- gameplay is balanced
- VOIP feature allows those with headsets to speak with squad members

Cons:
- may require an above average computer system
- minor bugs and gameplay annoyances that are common in newly released games - however EA games is constantly working on bug-fixing and game enhancements via periodic patches5 stars (Unique perspective on fun) - By now there are more than enough reviews about the content and compatibility of BF2, so I'll just throw in my two cents worth. There is no other game in the world with BF2's integration of all forms of tactical combat. HOOAH4 stars (Great new BF game but bad preformance on most sytems and cards!) - 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!
Battlefield 2Amazon Features:
Computer Games
Action
Shooters (Shooter)
Strategy (Strategic)
Simulations
World Building (Builders)
DVD-Video
Increase rank and unlock awards; voice-over IP (VOIP) supported
War simulation, online multiplayer action with 64 players on the PC
Battle as U.S., Chinese, or Middle East Coalition troops
30+ land, sea, and air vehicles; choose from a variety of solider classes
New state-of-the-art weapon systems, including heat seeking missiles

Battlefield 2 is the CD-ROM version. The full version can be purchased by clicking on the "CLICK HERE TO ORDER" button below for around 49.99USD.