im a regular BF2 player and i still dont get what the TWO thing is all about.. BF2 is the third installment in the series after 1942 and Vietnam which should make it Battlefield 3 since they had no sub-name for it.. and after it they released 2142, Bad Company, and are about to release BC2 and 1943... 

If you think that's confusing, you should try to make sense of the Resident Evil numbering/naming system.

A lot of series have main series and sub series or seperate series. Such as Final Fantasy 1-14, but theres also Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles thats just how it is. I beleive BF2 is called BF2 because it was the second in the main series while BF:Vietnam wasent an evolution from BF1942. Again BF2142 wasent an evolution from BF2 but BF3 should be based on the name. Modern Combat and Bad Company are side series to the main one and as such have there own numbering. 

Just how BF is name.

They use the numbered iterations for the PC games that aren't simply a "re-skin" of an existing game using the same engine. So far each numbered game has had one "re-skin" associated with it: BF1942 (1) / Vietnam, BF2 / 2142, BF3 / whatever DICE decides to milk it with.

The console games are an entirely separate spin-off, though they may  end up using the same model: Bad Company / 1943, Bad Company 2 / ?.

As for Modern Combat, that's just an illegitimate step-child.

Is that true? I'm sure it could simply be an updated version, but it would probably still have a different name, similar to Unreal 1-3.

If it is truly simply an updated engine of the same name, then let me amend my answer to say "when there is a significant overhaul of an existing engine."

I think it goes by Engine..... Vietnam and 1942 were built on the same engine but BF2 had its own improved engine..... dont quote me on it, but i heard some dude talking about Vietnam was able to be made because they were now able to create better foliage in their game using the same engine.

However according to wikipedia they were built on the same engine so i dont know...

You know what?  The only reason they're calling it Battlefield 3 is there's a whole bunch of idiots on forums who want 'Battlefield 3'.  All they want is the next 'real' Battlefield game.

Most of those people are going to have a fit when they learn about the game anyways, but if they didn't call it BF3 from the start there's a group of specific fools who would have never been on board.

Something like this. I tried to include all of the major series releases.

*Battlefield*----------------------------       |                                  \ Battlefield 1942                          Battlefield: Bad Company       |         \                                    | Battlefield 2--  Battlefield Vietnam      Battlefield: Bad Company 2       |        \ Battlefield 3   Battlefield 2142, Battlefield 2: Modern Combat (?)

There is a game called Battlefield 2: Modern Combat on PS2, Xbox and Xbox 360. It came out before Bad Company and after BF2.

It's the true successor of BF2, and it's thus called BF3. I CRACKED IT! YES!

I still haven't figured out what the F stands for!

(B)attle(f)ield

If that's the F you're referring to. One-letter acronyms don't sound too good.

Bad Company is a sub-series of the Battlefield series.

But, I wonder what this game will be like...hopefully it will be something like 2142.

Works the same as GTA

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@nick69 said:

" I wonder what this game will be like...hopefully it will be something like 2142. "

Get outta here! we're thirsty for more modern day US VS. MEC action!! "

It's all irrelavant, as nothing will ever compare to blasting Ride of the Valkyries while droppin in low in a Helo trying to shoot the runners. Nothing I say.

I'm waiting for the release of Super Battlefield 1942 2 Turbo to come out.

" @nick69: It will definitely be in line with the PC games rather than the console games. And, yeah, hopefully it stays modern day. Pew-pew lasers don't do it for me. "

The numbering comes from the engine that each game uses. Vietnam used the same engine as 1942, and the gameplay was nearly identical, so it could be considered more of a spinoff than a true sequel. BF2 was a brand new engine, hence the '2'. 2142 was to BF2 as Vietnam was to 1942. BF3 will most likely use a new engine (or at least new to the main BF series), hence the '3'.
 
Edit: I just realized this thread has been dead for over a year. Piss.

I posted a response to this more than a Year ago?
 
Where the hell did time go? And i still dont have an answer to your question.