Product Description

Electronic Arts Battlefield 2 Modern Combat Xbox The award-winning Battlefield franchise explodes onto the Xbox, dropping players into the heat of battle with Battlefield 2: Modern Combat. The game brings the over-the-top action andexcitement of the Battlefield series into the modern era with a bleeding-edge arsenal of vehicles and weaponry allowing for the most extreme"Battlefield Moments" yet. Battlefield 2: Modern Combat features a propaganda-fuelled single player campaign where gamers play both sides of a conflict in one of the most treacherous regions in the world ? Kazakhstan. Gamers will plunge headlong into the fog of war and must ultimately choose sides in a furious showdown where nothing is as it seems

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3250 in Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Model: 14858
• Released on: 2005-10-24
• ESRB Rating: Teen
• Platform: Xbox
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .53" h x 5.75" w x 7.75" l, .25 pounds

Features

• An all-new story-driven single player mode drops players deep into an action-packed war framed by government-sponsored propaganda forcing gamers to choose sides and decide the outcome.
• More than 10 maps for online multiplayer action for up to 24 players**. Clan support VoIP and a deep stat tracking system help round out one of the deepest online console shooters to date.
• Take control of more than 30 land, sea, and air vehicles, including tanks, helicopters, amphibious craft and fast attack vehicles.
• Choose to battle as U.S., European Union, Chinese, or Middle East Coalition troops, each with their own unique arsenals.
• Step into the boots of multiple solider classes including Assault, Sniper, Special Ops, Combat engineer and Combat Support units.

Customer Reviews

Nice Graphics - a Few Flaws
Battlefield 2 - Modern Combat is a great arcade-style fast paced action game. Just be prepared for some odd graphic issues while you play.

The gameplay involves a squad of soldiers moving through a well laid out cityscape. You can see the dirt on the window panes, the signs along the road, the icicles on the rooflines. You play in various weather conditions and deal with fire, smoke, and other environmental distractions.

It's amazing that we have gotten so "spoiled" that we take all of that for granted, and can complain about small anomalies. For example, we found it greatly amusing that when you shoot a jeep, it blows into a million tiny shards and vanishes completely. We also laughed when you shot an enemy soldier and apparently your bullets are "bone-dissolving" because they collapse like a jello-creature.

Still, that hardly takes away from the real gameplay. Your squad each has different weapons and capabilities, and in an ability I found REALLY cool, you can instant-teleport from one to the other as long as you can establish a sight-line. It was like having cosmic vampiric abilities. Also, to add to replayability, there are a ton of special medals and bonus points you can get, for things like achieving the longest hot-swap, doing long jeep jumps, and destroying all of the road signs.

There is some strategy involved here. You can't just run down the road blasting and expect to survive. You have to take cover, move along carefully and take your shot when it's clear. That being said, you don't have the squad level of command that some other games feature. You can't get an overhead view and set your guys up in formation, planning things out at a "manager" level. Your guys have reasonably good AI and act as best they can. If you want one of them to do something in particular, you have to "take them over".

The soundtrack is reasonably good - it gives a underlying 'movie feel' to the game without really intruding on gameplay. The soldier chatter that goes on is on one hand done reasonably well, but on the other hand it gets tiresome after a while. I'd almost like the ability to toggle between 'chatty' comrades at the beginning of the game down to 'pensive and quiet' ones near the end of the game.

This game of course has an online component to it. It's funny how some people feel online is the "only way" to play a game - while thousands of other people don't have online connections and honestly don't want them. I've played a ton of online XBox games, but also love playing solo. In any case, if you WANT to play online, you have to make sure your net connection as tuned as possible. The game supports 24 simultaneous players so as you can imagine the potential for lag is incredible. Find players that have top notch connections and make sure yours is as high speed as possible as well.

Well recommended!

EA needs to fix bugs for online play
I'm sure a lot of people are buying this game to play online. As of the first week of the release, there are so many problems with the online functionality. Problems logging in, "cannot connect to EA", horrible horrible lags (for eg. when you're running or driving, every few seconds you get bounced back as if you're running into a trampoline), getting booted out of the server, server disconnect, etc. As you can imagine, it can get quite frustrating playing online. At least EA is fixing this problem at this moment. Luckily, the single player campaign missions are fun to play. The single player game will keep me satisfied until the online function gets more stable.

Great multiplayer but crappy single player.
This game is one of the most fun games I've ever played. For me it really rivals Halo 2. Most people would probably disagree with that statement but it's true for me. First let me just start out by saying that the single player is just a way to waste time while your wasting time. It's so stupid and annoying. You basically play as one guy at a time while your stupid squad runs into oncoming fire. The only command you have over them is to tell a nearby soldier to get into the gunner seat of your vehicle. Anything more complicated than that and you will have to switch to him by the "Hotswap" feature. TO do that you have to be in direct sight of him anyway. Really not that fun if your used to games like ghost recon and rainbow 6.

The real reason that you want this game is for the online play which is great. If you don't have xbox live then your going to pay around thirty dollars for about eight hours of annoyance for the single player. That's if you have to repeat missions over and over because you fail. The multiplayer is where this game shines by far. It's so much fun and I'll tell you why. When I play Halo 2 online there is always some punk who takes the gun that I want and am good with and then I get owned because I have a crappy gun. In this you get to pick what guns you want before you respawn after death. You can't have a custom set you have to pick a soldier class. There's assult which is basically an M16 whith an m203 grenade laucher and tou get a 9 mil pistol and flash and frag grenades. Then ther's the sniper which has a sniper rifle (obviously) a silenced pistol which is basically worthless unless you are fighting another sniper close range. You also get smoke grenades and a laser designator for taking out vehicles and helicopters and what not. Perhaps the most important tool is the GPS unit which allows you to reveal enemy locations on your radar for a couple of seconds. It also reveals them to your teamates as well. Then there is the special ops class which is just the assult class with silenced weapons C4 and a knife. Then the engineer class which has a shotgun, rocket launcher, land mines, a blow torch for repairing vehicles. Then lastly there is the support class which has the SAW machine gun a medical auto injector(mobile first aid kit) and he can call in mortar strikes.

The other thing that makes this game so much fun is that you don't have to practice at it forever to be good. All you have to do is think. This game is not as much about how well you can aim as it is about strategy and teamwork. If you have played FPS's before you'll have no problem whith this game at all. Especially if you like military shooters.

Another thing that is great is the vehicles. No matter what map you play vehicles are an integral part. More so on maps with helicopters. If you have someone who can decently pilot the thing the advantage is huge. You can fill up the passenger seats and fly over a high otherwise unaccessible spot and let your buddies parachute out. Another great part. If you find yourself hurling towards Earth then press the black button and pop out your parachute. It makes the game a little less real but it makes it a lot more fun.

The ranking works like this:Three things are required for getting a promotion. You need medals for doing feats such as killing a certain nuber of people without dying or healing so many of your buddies in one life and things of that nature. You also need points which you get by killing enemies, capturing flags, taking over flag posts etc. The third thing you need is PPH which I'm not sure what that stands for but the more you win the more you get so don't suck if you want to pick up a rank.


The bottom line is this. If you like military shooters that are semi arcadish and you have xbox live then this is the game you're looking for. If you don't have xbox live then you're wasting your money. Have fun.