Battlefield 2142 (DVD-ROM)
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Product Summary
Brand: Electronic ArtsRelease Date: 2006-10-17
Platform: Windows XP
Model: 15265
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Product features:
- Lethal Vehicles-- Gamers control menacing Battle Walkers that stalk the land and futuristic gunships that patrol the skies.
- Titan Mode-- Wage epic-scale war to defeat your opponent's Titan, a massive flying warship, controlled by the team's commander.
- 64-Players Online-- Experience all-out war with Battlefield's legendary multiplayer for up to 64 players.
- Real-Time Persistence-- To the victor goes the spoils! Equipment, medals and other rewards are awarded in-game and in real time.
- Customizable Abilities-- Gamers can expand their abilities and blend multiple player classes to match their play-style.
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Video Game Reviews of Battlefield 2142 (DVD-ROM)
Customer Review: Sorry not falling for it a fourth time
Summary: 1 Stars
We were more than patient with you with BF 1942 because it was revolutionary and eventually the patches caught up and there was expansion goodness for everyone.
We were forgiving with BF Vietnam for the balancing, bugginess, lack of standard features, and maps just so we could have all the helicopter goodness.
We were excited and then quickly disappointed by BF 2 with all the same problems showing up yet a third time along and a lacking of features promised in the last two versions along with a crop of other things such as rampant cheating and patch updates that were almost non-existant.
I'll admit we're a bit slow, but if you think we're going to throw money yet a fourth time your way, for what amounts to a mod, a buggy mod at that, with the great new feature being adware, wow you're dumber than we are.
I for one am going to pass. I'll check back in six months, if it lasts that long. Hopefully by then all the patches and balancing will be done. If that is the case, then I'll think about picking it up.
JUST TO BE FAIR
Just be fair I went back and gave it another try. Here is how it went.
Another 22 hour download. Nice
Reintstalled Dx9
Reinstalled game
Game crashed first attempt, but came up second time no problems.
I see that the jump to center, bug/characteristic is still in the control menu, annoying, but tollerable. It's been there since the 1942 version.
Getting the control menu to keep my settings took a few attempts. For some reason it was dead set on keeping W set to nothing. I don't use WASD I use ESDF, more keys to the left to use. Similar problems setting up the joystick and mouse, but nothing serious, just had to play a game solo and jump into the menu 10-15 times to keep changing things back, again another characteristic that has been with us since 1942.
Video is similar to BF2, as long as I don't max them out it is very smooth.
No widescreen support, big thumbs down. Closest thing to 1900x1200 is 1600x1200. Some warping, but playable. Sorry kiddies who think wide screen is cheating, I like my 24" monitor and like having a wider view.
The optimizing shaders annoyance is back from BF2. If you change video setting expect a 5 minute or more wait till it optimizes something. Don't know why this couldn't be done before you try to enter a map in the background, so you are going to be late to the fight the first time after a change.
Game play that I tried was Titan. Interesting concept, though nothing original it's been around since the days of UT and RtCW. Moving around and launching aircraft onboard the Titan is buggy quite a bit of the time. The ship moves around subtly causing things to get hung up.
Weapons seem to be more accurate, but classes feel kind of generalized due to the reduction in total numbers.
Sound quality is still pretty muted and generic, all the weapons sound alike, but at least they've finally figured out what 3d sound is. You know which way it's coming from now.
The powered lift craft, they're not helicopters, they're not airplanes. It feels like they're found the perfect dumbed down sensitivity. BFV they were crazy sensitive, BF2 they felt like you were flying with your hands numb. I personally like things light and sensitive, it took a lot of skill to fly them, but this should help get people up to speed faster and make people less afraid of jumping in with random pilots.
Looks like the helicopter instant roll over and play dead bug is still in the game.
The ground vehicles are so so. The weapons have some interesting characteristics, like the curve ball grenades on the walker. Other than that nothing really new.
Lot's of gun stabilization on vehicle guns finally make accurate passenger support fire possible while on the move.
There is no cover or vegetation which to speak of, but then none of the BF games ever have had much. I like the fatigue bar, but it's a LONG run between things to hide behind, so anyone on foot is still going to be constantly caught out in the open.
The indestructable chain link fences make a return to the game ready to stop your 80 ton tank dead in it's tracks.
Light vehicles aren't all that fast and explode almost instantly upon contact with water. Seems even in the future that is still a problem. The walker can wade accross no problems.
I saw one of the infamous billboards. It was green and simple said "The Enemy is out there" So right they are, but I didn't notice any more than that. No adds. I'd rather if they were going to stuff adds in the game to have them in the menu while you are looking for a server to join rather than in the game. The classic "Brought to you by Brand X" type placements there would be less strange.
This game feels very much like a mod, it still needs some tweeking to get some things right. The Menu system is still quirky, but seems to be actually stable, which is an absolute first for any BF game. Simple things like not telling you how to set up a joystick are still absent. It's not hard, but it's not obvious either.
There is nothing that interesting to a long time BF vet to make me want to pay money for it. I find the whole thing kind of boring. There are better games out there that suck you into the action better. It seems that DICE didn't bother lifting any ideas from the many games that have come out since they have come onto the scene.
I downgrade my opinion from flame to yawn.
Wars are dirty, loud, confusing, overwhelming, and dented. This game delivers none of that. Even BF2 for all it's warts still seems to be the much better game.
Description of Battlefield 2142 (DVD-ROM)
2 coalitions wage a desperate war for the only cause that matters - survival
Product Information
The year is 2142 and thedawn of a new Ice age has thrown the world into a panic. The soil not covered by ice can only feed a fraction of the Earth's population. The math is simple and brutal: some will live, most will die. In Battlefield 2142,players choose to fight for one of two military superpowers - the European Union or the newly formed Pan Asian Coalition -in an epic battle for survival.
Armed with a devastating arsenal of hi-tech weaponry, including assault rifles, cloakingdevices and sentry guns, players will also take control of the most lethal vehicles known to man. Massive Battle Walkers wage fierce combat on the ground, while futuristic aircraft rule the skies. When taking on this futuristic armor players will needto use their wits and an arsenal of new hi-tech countermeasures like EMP grenades and smart mines to level the playing field.
Epic online gameplay for up to 64 players drops gamers on the front lines as part of a formal squad, or behind thescenes in Commander Mode to direct the strategic assaults of their team-mates.
For the first time in the history of the franchise, Battlefield 2142 will include a brand new game type to complement the classic conquest game. The epic, new Titanmode challenges gamers to destroy the opposing army's Titan - a massive, heavily armored, flying warship - while defending their own. To defeat a Titan, gamers must first take down its shields, board the craft and fight to its inner core beforedetonating it from the inside. This genre leading gameplay innovation changes the way you play, encouraging both teamplay and strategy in explosive large-scale confrontations.
With in-game success, players increase their rank and unlock awards,including new weapons, medal
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