Battlefield 2 Deluxe Edition
by Electronic Arts
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Video Game Reviews of Battlefield 2 Deluxe Edition
Customer Review: Good Game: Major Balance Flaw
Summary: 2 Stars
Battlefield 2 is a game with excellent potential.
GRAPHICS:
It has great graphics. Of course you pay for these graphics by having to have a substantial game system. Check system specs carefully before purchasing and don't try to run this game on min. requirements. The map detail, the animations are all extremely well done.
GAME PLAY:
You have 7 different kits you can play - each with a powerful and unique role on the modern battlefield. I've not found any one kit to be without a great deal of playability. Medic, Engineer, Anti-Tank, Assault, Special Forces, Support, Sniper - they all have fun and challenging tasks.
THE PROBLEM:
Unfortunately, for all the the incredible game play there is a serious balance issue with the game. Whereas nearly every thing you can do in the game from Sniper to Tanker has a series of counters (hence balance) the jets in the game have no reasonable balance. This means if you get in a game with a jet 'whore' (meaning someone who flys jets exclusively) you'll likely end up spending alot of time looking at your death screen. A couple of jets can dominate a game with 30-40 other people in it - thereby basically ruining it for everyone else -- this happens way too often an there is no cure as the anti-aircraft emplacements don't work.
Despite complaints to EA about the balance issue since the game launch the company has failed to address this issue, which I've found so frustrating that after 2 months of play I'm ready to throw the dang game away.
A simple fix to the anti-aircraft, or the ability to turn the jets off would put this game in the 5 star ratings easily - unfortunately, as it stands the game is little more than a penny arcade for whoever gets the jets first.
A FIX
If you are willing to play on infrantry only servers or if you are willing to play on maps that don't have jets at all (all my favorite maps have jets...so I lose there) then you can get away from this GROSS imbalance - in that case, the game would be worth your money.
Customer Review: Battle 2
Summary: 4 Stars
It is fun, but short. They need a richer environment that you can exlpore and play longer.Customer Review: A great shooter. Highly Addictive fun
Summary: 5 Stars
Battlefield 2 is by far the best shooter of 2005-2006. The online gameplay is second to none. The graphics are excellent. I recommened checking your the system requirements to make sure your system can handle playing it, as it requires a good video card and quite a bit of memory, and a cable or dsl connection.
Overall, gameplay wise, whether you like to kill with a gun, a tank, a jet, a helicopter, you can do it all here. Great maps and gameplay to boot.
The Deluxe Edition gives you the Special Forces expansion pack which allows you to use more weapons and play on 10 more maps. Over 20 maps for 40 bucks...that is quite the bargain!
This game converted me from a console gamer to a PC gamer. Its really that good. Don't hesitate to pick this up!
Customer Review: Support please?
Summary: 2 Stars
I decided to purchase the deluxe edition instead of 2142 because my friends still play BF2. Well, the original works fine. I don't think it's as good as Counter Strike, but it makes up for it being able to fly, drive and all that.
Anyways, the problem I have is updating. It will not update to the latest version. So my options on which servers I can play on are pretty limited. I've tried reinstalling, re-downloading the patch. Nothing in the KB has worked. EA won't give any further support on their game, I'm guessing because of the 2142 release. Which, even with the spyware, I'm kinda regretting not buying that instead. I just don't see this game being worth the money and effort.
I don't think I'll be purchasing many more games from EA unless I need a NFL licensed football game.
Customer Review: Run, Spray, Respawn - a lot.
Summary: 3 Stars
While Battlefield 2 has great graphics and is easy to play, the game suffers from the 'run, spray, respawn' mindset that ruins almost all of today's FPS games. When are game developers going to realise that this playstyle is inherently frustrating? If the developers made the weapons truly realistic the game would be much better. Because of the player's ability to hold the weapons rock steady they are about ten times as accurate as their real life counterparts. This makes a game in which firefights are won by player who has the fastest reflexes, and not the player who uses the best team play tactics or who has the better cover. Basically, although the game developers go to great pains to claim that they encourage team play that's really not the case, and as for cover, because of the hyper-accuracy you're as exposed and visible behind a brick wall and with your head 99% shielded by a plant as you are standing in open ground.
If you want to see a bunch of players running into hails of gunfire like total idiots buy this game. I mean when will these game developers realise that games are more fun if they challenge us to play carefully and rationally? Any idiot can spawn and run at the enemy with guns blazing. The problem with BF2 is that it rewards such silliness. I'll play these sorts games again when they start to punish such nonsensical play and reward players who actually behave like real soldiers and try to stay alive.