Fear Single Player is fun though, its the most hilarious thing to see a mine blow up at face level in slow motion then watch the enemy disolve into a semi sticky goo that splatters the wall, all for your entertainment
I would have to say that BF2 wasn't pushed out the door at all though, trust me on this one I watched its production from the very first day it was released. It was in production for about a year and a half (The whole time I was drooling over my kerboard for every little piece of information I could get). It is just a little bit different of a game then Counterstrike or Day of Defeat. While DoD and CS are great games they are simplistic, With no vehicles or overcomplicated features, players get guns... Thats about it, while in the Battlefield Series player can get all sorts of vehicles, anti vehicle emplacements and to me that brings a whole new element of realism to the game. Especially in BF2 Where at the beginning of each match players have an option to apply for the commander position, if they get elected for the commander position they now have a whole new screen they can go to to acces many more commands for their team, for example you can go to the commander screen and initiate a "Scan" and in your map in the right hand side of the commander screen a yellow ling begins to slowly scroll from left ro right, marking each enemy player as a little red blip. The players only stay iluminated for a few seconds but its enough time to see where to call in your artillery. Now artillery is a whole new thing that is very, VERY fun to play around with, the commander hits the button and selects where they want it to drop, and in around 10-15 seconds BOOM, you start shelling the enemy position for roughly 10 seconds and anyone or anything that is in the way is toast, you can even blow a helicopter right out of midair if the pilot is stupid enough to fly into it (I know ive been shot down many a time
) Then we get into squads, players can either choose to join an existing squad or create a new squad, once in a new squad you can invite other players into the squad. Now all of your squadmembers are lit up in green on maps so you can pick them out quickly, if you are a squad leader you can give orders to your other squadmembers. For instance if you see enemy troops moving in on a base that you need to keep you can select the defend option and now all of your squadmembers will hear "DEFEND THIS POSITION!" and they will see the position they are supposed to defend on their maps, this is used to better caoordinate forces ingame without having to stop and type, you can also send orders faster and insure that your squadmates see them. Squadleaders can also requst thing from a commander, like if their squad is under heavy attack and needs health and ammo so he goes to his map, right-clicks on his position and hits "Request Supply Drop" then the commander will hear a voice saying "Requesting a supply drop, over" and the commander can go to his screen and then either accept or deny the request, if he accepts a box of supplies will drop in the area requested and that squad can get ammo and health if they are near enough to the box. Commanders can also give the squad leaders orders and if they do and the squad leaders accept the orders it will then be broadcaster to all the squadmembers. There are many more features and if you want to hear me ramble on more about how awsome and detailed of a game BF2 is then PM me or something I dunno, I could ramble on for hours about this series. (I love these games and was ranked in the top 1000 for my class when I played) But I would have to say that BF2 was actually very polished and an awsome game, you just really have to think of the magnitude of the game. Think of DoD - relatively small maps usually with only 30 players to a server with guns running around shooting each other. Now think of BF2 - up to 64 players in a huge environment, flying planes, helicopters, driving tanks, sending orders, recieving orders, getting blown up by artitllery, all at the same time. You have to give BF2 some credit there, they took gaming to a whole new scale, something that no other game could do. So theres my good long ramble, and I will defend what I stated to the death...
WAFFLE <3's BATTLEFIELD!!!!!
