A good time online
(This review was written 4-20-2006)
Battlefield 2 for the 360 is a fast paced,team based, fps that is best played online for the best experience. Ive been playing Modern Combat on the 360 since it came out, and while it is the game i play most, its not without flaws.
For being "Modern" ..., where are the jets? No "modern" battlefield in the world exists without jets. Small complaint, but the pc version seems to be more realistic.
I have a very fast connection but still experience occasional lag. Also the EA servers seem to be very unstable, as I have been routinely booted out of games.I know that it happens to others because you will see five to six people getting kicked out of your game at the same time on a regular basis.
About once or twice a week i cant log on at all and i get "The Battlefield 2 server is temporarily out of service, try again later" message, yet my roommate is still playing on his TV.
The other major problem isn't the games fault, but the players. 99% of the time, people will vote for only 2 out of the 16 available maps, (Backstab, Bridge too far). All of the maps can be very fun, but i guess people like to get really good at only one map. " You can just select to filter your game search to All Maps" you say? Sure, yet when you search for "All Maps" you get back 13 Vote maps and like 2 All Maps....usually the ones with the worst connection speed.
Other than that, ive had a blast playing BF2mc and there is a lot of fun to be had in the online mode. The first time you hop in any of the games plethora of vehicles and tear it up you get hooked. vehicles range from armed snowmobiles and LAV's, to Apache attack helicopters and M 1A1 Abrams.
There are only two on line modes, Conquest, where you have several control points on a map and both teams must try to control more areas. You take over an area by standing near the flag. The more of your team is near the flag the faster you take it. Sounds easy, right? Then you have the Capture the Flag mode. CTF is much more fast paced than conquest as the maps are much smaller and there is only 2 flags, yours and theirs. In CTF, you actually must make it to the enemy flag, grab it my walking over it, and taking it all the way back to your flag. If you are killed with the flag, it is automatically returned to its base. This mode is great for some real quick action, but it gets old quick due to the limited size of the maps.
The achievements are ,like most 360 games, not all that easy to come by.
You must actually get some kills and survive to get them, unless you "boost". Some people ive come across like to team up to get medals.They call it boosting. I think its hilarious because they get a high rank and end up playing with some REAL pros and get their buts handed to them.
Single player you ask? ........Nope, none to speak of. Seriously, don't bother with the campaign mode, it is boring compared to the on line. Some people like to practise offline, but in this case, the game is no good to anyone but pilots how want to practise flying, because the enemy AI behaves nothing like what you will come across on line.
All in all i highly recommend this game to anyone looking for a real challenge and if you like fps's in general you will enjoy this game. Of course you should download the demo off of XBL and find out for yourself.
