--snip-- After playing the fantastic (& free) game Enemy Territory (www.splashdamge.com) almost exclusively for the last couple of years I've decided to give Battlefield 2 a try since I've heard a lot of good things about it. I never actually got around to trying Battlefield 1942 so I have no idea about how the new version compares to the old one. Also, I've only played BF2 a couple of hours before writing this so any opinions expressed here might be outdated before you read it. =)
BF2 is good fun and the large selection of classes, weapons and vehicles means that you can play this for a long time without running out of new things to try your hand at. The selection of standard maps could have been better but each map is quite large so no reason to complain IMO. The objective of each map is always to take control of every flag on the map so there is none of the variation of objectives that you'll find in Enemy-Territory. Don't know if this is the reason that I felt a bit indifferent to how my team performed and didn't care much if my team won or lost. In this regard it really felt like a complex death match game for me. Hopefully this will change when I learn the game better. =)
I had to upgrade my gfx-card to be able to play the game at all. My NVidia GeForce4 was not supported at all which I guess is down to Dice/EA being lazy, out of time or trying to help Nvidia to sell more cards. My 2ghz Pentium 4 and new NVidia 6600GT still struggles if the settings are to high so currently I'm running at 1024*768, 2xAA, settings at medium/low and dynamic lights and shadows off. This gives a playable frame rate and the game still looks quite good.
Two patches have been released for the game but it's still quite buggy...hopefully the next patch will address more bugs (without introducing new ones like the first one did).
All in all a positive experience but it won't replace Enemy Territory as my all time favourite game...for that I think we need 'Enemy Territory:Quake Wars'! ( www.enemyterritory.com ) =)
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After playing the fantastic (& free) game Enemy Territory (www.splashdamge.com) almost exclusively for the last couple of years I've decided to give Battlefield 2 a try since I've heard a lot of good things about it. I never actually got around to trying Battlefield 1942 so I have no idea about how the new version compares to the old one. Also, I've only played BF2 a couple of hours before writing this so any opinions expressed here might be outdated before you read it. =)
BF2 is good fun and the large selection of classes, weapons and vehicles means that you can play this for a long time without running out of new things to try your hand at. The selection of standard maps could have been better but each map is quite large so no reason to complain IMO. The objective of each map is always to take control of every flag on the map so there is none of the variation of objectives that you'll find in Enemy-Territory. Don't know if this is the reason that I felt a bit indifferent to how my team performed and didn't care much if my team won or lost. In this regard it really felt like a complex death match game for me. Hopefully this will change when I learn the game better. =)
I had to upgrade my gfx-card to be able to play the game at all. My NVidia GeForce4 was not supported at all which I guess is down to Dice/EA being lazy, out of time or trying to help Nvidia to sell more cards. My 2ghz Pentium 4 and new NVidia 6600GT still struggles if the settings are to high so currently I'm running at 1024*768, 2xAA, settings at medium/low and dynamic lights and shadows off. This gives a playable frame rate and the game still looks quite good.
Two patches have been released for the game but it's still quite buggy...hopefully the next patch will address more bugs (without introducing new ones like the first one did).
All in all a positive experience but it won't replace Enemy Territory as my all time favourite game...for that I think we need 'Enemy Territory:Quake Wars'! ( www.enemyterritory.com ) =)