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 Good, if you can get it cheap. July 31, 2007
Jam (England)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This game has been around since early 2006, so, as you can imagine, the graphics are a bit dated. I would say they are slightly worse than oblivions graphics. The single player is alright, nothing special, online is where this game really shines. If you can get this for around 20 it's well worth it.
Graphics: 2.5/5
Sound:4/5
Gameplay: 4/5
Replayability: 5/5
 A STUNNING GAME !! July 25, 2007
Mr. S. F. H. Gilani (uk)
Battlefield 2 for Xbox 360 is very addictive. The game can be hard at times & dying just at the wrong time can be frustrating, but it never discourages me from playing at all. The missions are varied, graphics are stunning & very detailed, & the audio is totally amazing.
The variety of gameplay is a real highlight. Hotswapping, for example, allows you to switch from one member of your team to another almost instantly, done by pressing the X button. This works brilliantly, & it gives you the chance to view the battle from many points on the map.
Special mention must go to the handling of the vehicles. The tanks feel satisfyingly heavy to drive, while Hummers are faster & more manouverable.
Overall a superb game, & a great way of showing what the xbox 360 is capable of. One of the very best.
Made for online July 12, 2007
R. A. Watson (Northampton UK)
OK, So what to say that has not already been said? This is the ultimate war game.
I will start off with the online mode, as this game was designed for online play only... It was only once it got moved to xbox360 et al that the game got a single player mode.
Online, you have the choice to set up your own map (which to be honest i have not done) or you just press the quick play option.. my preferred choice. You are then connected up to the servers and after a short loading time, you are chucked into the action- this is usually at your HQ, if you join the game at the start. If not, if your team has captured any of the other flags on the map, you can start from there, just ensuring you are in the thick of the action straight away. A quick note about the game itself... you can be happily walking along, and then all of a sudden you are dead... is this frustrating? Yes it most certainly is, but at the same time adds quite a bit of realism to the game, whether you stand on a land mine, killed by a helicopter you never saw (or heard) coming, or a sniper from a mile away, just shows what sortof dangers are inherent in being in a theatre of war. I am not particularly good at this game... sometimes i do pretty well, but on the whole i am a bit naff, but the funny thing is, this takes no enjoyment away from the game. It is still great to be in the thick of action, whether you are camped at a base, or out on the streets. It is just superb.
Single player:
This can be frustrating, and would be better to think of it as a refresher course on the little details in the game. The AI in your team, can be best described as total (*&*&ing idiots, but if you view this as a FPS, designed to be played on your own, then you can pass it off as a moderatley good fun episode. Considering you do get to fly helicopters in the single player game, and board boats and the rest of the vehicles, it is really not a bad FPS, but certainly not as immersing as other games. This is an extra to the Console game, and as not on the PC version, so you can say to yourself that it is an extra game in itself to what it was originally designed for, however this is not a game you should buy for the single player, as it is not intuitive. You buy it for the online game, and is by far the best online game i have ever come across, whether it be on PC or console.
My thoughts are that even the 'great' online games do not even come close to this for sheer entertaining, seat of your pants fun... this includes doom URT, and even the MMORG's which i do love, so not come close to this for pick up ability, and absorbtion into the game.
If you have xbox live, you should have this game.
How could you hate this? June 8, 2007
N. Walker (Oxfordshire, UK)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This game, in my eyes is possibly the best Battlefield game made. Sure the offline is not that great, but it's good for a bit of fun when your xbox live is down or you just feel like playing alone. The online though...
Wow, that is pretty much one of the only words to sum it up. You could say it is fantastic, you could say brilliant, but those words are not enough to describe the brilliantness of the online. Who wouldn't enjoy driving around in a convoy of humvees, only to see an enemy helicopter rise and blow that humvee up in front of you with a barrage of missiles, only for you to swerve left into a warehouse, being trapped and then watching your teammates back you up with tanks, or who wouldn't enjoy running around on foot charging in on the front line, firing off bullets as bullets wizz past your teams front line, with a few tanks behind you and a helicopter for air cover, only to run behind some cover from the onslaught of bullets.
The online game is different everytime you join a game, whether your a sniper, engineer, assault or support, that is only the half of the difference in games. The maps are huge, lots of players jump into one map and vehicles are everywhere, the experience is unforgettable, and a hard one to put down. You'll almost not want to pick it up again because you think the experience might not be as good as before... but it is.
The offline is rather hard and you need to have alot of patience for that, but it also has some fun. You will unlock sort of side missions, where you have to race around in humvees or fly a helicopter around the map.
Although the offline isn't great, the online is too good to miss, and that's why i gave it 5 stars. But remember, if you don't have xbox live, don't expect anything as spectacular as this...
 Oh How Good This COULD Have Been April 11, 2007
Steve (England)
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
Ive never played this game on the pc so i cannot comment on that, i played the multiplayer demo downloaded off xbox live and i loved that so i bought the game. im not disappointed as such but this game could have been so so good, it could have been a rival to ghost recon but was let down by stupid oversights on the part of the developers. the main issue i have with this game is the lack of save points, which has been commented on in past reviews.. you are given a mission objective, you complete it, you are given another objective and so on, there may be 5 objectives per mission, you get to the 5th and die, after playing for maybe 20-30 minutes to get ot this point and yes you guessed it! you have to start right back from square 1. now this game isnt the easiest ive encountered, infact i would say its a hard game and after playing the same part of the game over and over again ive just about had enough and ive only had the game 2 days. another problem is theres no way to turn up the brightness in the game and i do feel this is needed, sure you can turn up the brightness on the tv but then you have to mess around when you wanna watch tv or a DVD, a simple brightness control would have been very helpful.
The games graphics are nice, i was quite surprised that even on a regular tv they look pretty good, not stunning but they do the job quite well.
The control system is terrible, everything you have learned about 1st person shooter controls need to be forgotten as this game seems to turn everything on its head, i guess im just too used to Call of Duty's controls.
all in all if you like a game thats quite difficult and you dont mind playing the same parts over and over then you may actually like this game, its not a disaster by any means but a little more thought could and should have turned this game into a classic.
Multiplayer is fantastic but even that lacks game mode types that you will be used to when playing online.
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