It's all fun and games until someone loses a limbAll of which spooging doesn't mean that BF2 is perfect.

Whilst there doesn't appear to be a whole lot of benefit to having a high-level character, it is a big kudos-earner. As you play online, each point you get counts towards medals, ribbons and ranks that can be won. This scoring system also encourages a wider range of characters, avoiding everyone spawing as soliders and rushing the aircraft - a common problem in BF1942.Īlong with the new scoring system, there's a points-tracker-leaderboard-thingy, clearly inspired by the Halo 2 every-stat-in-the-galaxy approach to bragging rights. This means that those who prefer to take a more supporting role can still come top of games if they are the best player on the map, rather than just the most trigger-happy. Rather than simply rewarding kills, the system rewards the amount you heal your teammates, vehicles repaired, assists for kills, base defends. However, one of the crucial new game dynamics is the scoring system. There are more player classes than before, with roles for engineers, medics and assault types as you might expect. With a good Commander, a team can conquer a map more effectively and efficiently than ever before. With several strike teams at his fingers, a Commander can reliably co-ordinate efforts, and give out new orders to teams as they are completed. Any player can hook up with 5 others to form a 6-man strike team, which can operate as a unit and be given orders by the player acting as Commander. Saving Private Ryan's SpawnpointBF2 has clearly been geared towards more tactical, co-operative play, and the introduction of squads is testament to this. For fans of Kelly's Heroes, it provides some fantastic 'The bridge is up!' 'No it ain't.' moments.

Likewise, the likelihood of a bridge going skywards can lead to diversionary tactics. If a bridge is a natural chokepoint, blowing it can force the enemy to use aircraft or boats to travel. Certain features of the map, like bridges, can be blown up - adding a considerably cool new dimension to tactics. One of the great features of BF2 is the destructible terrain. Each variation requires careful study to work out the best plan of attack, and clans will spend many evenings perfecting strategies, we're sure. The size of each map grows accordingly, and the change in size brings in new gameplay - a 64-player version of a map might include lots of river crossings encouraging a flanking strategy, whilst the 16-player might be shrunk to include just one of the crossings, creating a natural bottleneck. Whilst 12 maps doesn't sound like a lot, each has 3 variations - one each for 16-, 32- and 64-player. There are 12 individual maps, fought across by three different factions - the US, China and the Middle East. It's effectively more of the same, but with some significant tweaks. The twist? It's truly team-based, with co-operation needed to take crucial strategic map points - even on public servers.īattlefield 2 takes the concept and locks it, loads it, and fires it into the 21st Century, leaving us recoiling in awe at the gameplay. Battlefield 1942 was a wartime multiplayer game, with players fighting across maps on foot, in jeeps or tanks, or flying planes. If you haven't played the original, chances are you're a) stuck in the dark ages or b) stuck on 56k ( aren't those the same, unfortunate thing? - Ed). what is it good for? Well, 64-player carnage in Battlefield 2, that's what. I love the smell of 64-player in the morningSo war.

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