Battlefield 2 (2005)
DICE's large-scale multiplayer shooter moves to the present day in this acclaimed sequel, whose online community has remained active for nearly a decade.
First released
Jun 21, 2005
Aliases
BF2
Franchises
Battlefield
Developed by
DICE Canada, Trauma Studios, DICE
Published by
Electronic Arts
Platforms
PC
Genres
Action, Shooter, First-Person Shooter, Vehicular Combat
Themes
Modern Military
Rating
PEGI: 16+, ESRB: T
Releases
- PC - Battlefield 2 (Deluxe Edition) United Kingdom
- PC - Battlefield 2 United States
- PC - Battlefield 2 United Kingdom
- PC - Battlefield 2: Complete Collection United States
- PC - Battlefield 2 (DVD) United States
- PC - Battlefield 2 Deluxe Edition United States
Community reviews
Considered an all-time classic, but not for me
Battlefield 2 is considered an all-time classic and a gem of a game. Sadly, I cannot share this opinion. It certainly does have something to do with the fact that I was really bad at it, but even today, I still think this game is boring, unfair and the maps too big. Of course, I will back this up with arguments.
It all started for me when I discovered that this is a multiplayer only game. I did not know any better back then and was expecting a campaign mode, like the Call of Duty games and the previous Battlefield games. It was not there, and while this was certainly my own fault, it still disappointed me.
Graphically, this game looked, and still looks, amazing. The detail in the surroundings, buildings and vehicles is really nice, the sun and weather effects still make this game feel very realistic. The animations and walk cycles look great too and I only wished that I could experience this beautiful graphics in a campaign mode in the game back then.
The sound is solid and bullet impacts and explosions sound amazing. It really feels like an all-out war and I cannot complain about the sound design whatsoever.
The controls for moving, shooting and aiming work fine but I found the many different things and inventory screens a little confusing. It is certainly not as easy as Call of Duty in terms of understanding the controls and menus. The combat itself is far more realistic then Call of Duty and for this reason, aiming and killing your enemy is a lot harder in my opinion.
When I accepted the fact that was multiplayer only, I got started and was ready to play some matches. Immediately, I felt miserable, and I hated every second of every match. This was because of two factors:
Firstly, the maps in Battlefield 2 are massive. Not big, not huge, massive. It felt like an entire continent was placed in a single map. There is room for half the population of earth to fit into a single map of Battlefield 2. This all sounds fun and dandy, but when trying to reach an enemy point to capture or simply search for someone to shoot, it felt like walking through five marathons in a row before I saw something of interest. And when I saw something of interest, after walking a thousand miles, it was the bullet that landed between my eyes. I died, re-spawned and needed to walk to the end of the world and back again. Many times, an encounter with another player took ten minutes to reach and when it did, it was two seconds of fun and tension, before I bit the dust and needed to start over.
Yes, I mentioned walking to every place. I am well aware of the many, many vehicles in the game that you can use to navigate easier and faster around the map. But now, we arrived at my personal vendetta number two: At the start of the game, all the vehicles are snatched away and take off in mere seconds, leaving me and some other unlucky noobs behind, forcing me to walk everywhere. It was really impressive and mind-blowingly ridiculous to see how incredible fast the vehicles are taken and blast away, leaving you to choke in the tire smoke and exhaust fumes. It really felt like Black Friday and when the countdown was over, it was every man for himself, trying to get some sweet wheels. No matter how hard I ran, how much I begged in the chat as a pathetic child to wait for me or give me a chance to ride along, it was always: “sorry bro, git gut”.
My biggest challenge in the game, besides not dying or killing one single player in a match, was getting to a vehicle. I tried so, so hard but I never made it to one single APC or truck. This experience made me hate the game to a level that I cannot express in words.
Like I said before, I sucked really hard at the game and to call me a noob in Battlefield 2 would be an understatement. However, I just felt that I did not get a fair chance to learn or to get better at the game. The vehicle snatching, the endless walks, the insta-deaths from an unseen enemy five hundred miles away, the huge environments with nothing to do except dying made me really hate Battlefield 2. I despised the game, and this feeling has not changed to this day.
So, based om my personal experience, I would not recommend this game.
It all started for me when I discovered that this is a multiplayer only game. I did not know any better back then and was expecting a campaign mode, like the Call of Duty games and the previous Battlefield games. It was not there, and while this was certainly my own fault, it still disappointed me.
Graphically, this game looked, and still looks, amazing. The detail in the surroundings, buildings and vehicles is really nice, the sun and weather effects still make this game feel very realistic. The animations and walk cycles look great too and I only wished that I could experience this beautiful graphics in a campaign mode in the game back then.
The sound is solid and bullet impacts and explosions sound amazing. It really feels like an all-out war and I cannot complain about the sound design whatsoever.
The controls for moving, shooting and aiming work fine but I found the many different things and inventory screens a little confusing. It is certainly not as easy as Call of Duty in terms of understanding the controls and menus. The combat itself is far more realistic then Call of Duty and for this reason, aiming and killing your enemy is a lot harder in my opinion.
When I accepted the fact that was multiplayer only, I got started and was ready to play some matches. Immediately, I felt miserable, and I hated every second of every match. This was because of two factors:
Firstly, the maps in Battlefield 2 are massive. Not big, not huge, massive. It felt like an entire continent was placed in a single map. There is room for half the population of earth to fit into a single map of Battlefield 2. This all sounds fun and dandy, but when trying to reach an enemy point to capture or simply search for someone to shoot, it felt like walking through five marathons in a row before I saw something of interest. And when I saw something of interest, after walking a thousand miles, it was the bullet that landed between my eyes. I died, re-spawned and needed to walk to the end of the world and back again. Many times, an encounter with another player took ten minutes to reach and when it did, it was two seconds of fun and tension, before I bit the dust and needed to start over.
Yes, I mentioned walking to every place. I am well aware of the many, many vehicles in the game that you can use to navigate easier and faster around the map. But now, we arrived at my personal vendetta number two: At the start of the game, all the vehicles are snatched away and take off in mere seconds, leaving me and some other unlucky noobs behind, forcing me to walk everywhere. It was really impressive and mind-blowingly ridiculous to see how incredible fast the vehicles are taken and blast away, leaving you to choke in the tire smoke and exhaust fumes. It really felt like Black Friday and when the countdown was over, it was every man for himself, trying to get some sweet wheels. No matter how hard I ran, how much I begged in the chat as a pathetic child to wait for me or give me a chance to ride along, it was always: “sorry bro, git gut”.
My biggest challenge in the game, besides not dying or killing one single player in a match, was getting to a vehicle. I tried so, so hard but I never made it to one single APC or truck. This experience made me hate the game to a level that I cannot express in words.
Like I said before, I sucked really hard at the game and to call me a noob in Battlefield 2 would be an understatement. However, I just felt that I did not get a fair chance to learn or to get better at the game. The vehicle snatching, the endless walks, the insta-deaths from an unseen enemy five hundred miles away, the huge environments with nothing to do except dying made me really hate Battlefield 2. I despised the game, and this feeling has not changed to this day.
So, based om my personal experience, I would not recommend this game.