Battlefield 2

Battlefield 2 was and still is one of my favorite games to play. I started playing it many years ago when it came out, and it was insanely fun. Sometimes I even play it today. What I loved about it was it was you had a giant battlefield, and you could run around and set up ambushes and stealthily capture strategic points. The variety of ways you could do this is amazing as well, you could hop in a tank and blow everyone to pieces, or you could hitch a ride on a helicopter, or you could even walk the entire way, but that is something I wouldn’t advise if you want to keep your sanity intact. What was revolutionary at the time was that the game engine supported sixty four people playing in one server, at the same time. Battlefield 2 was made about six years ago, and some of the major games today don’t even allow anything close to sixty four players. Battlefield 2 held many innovations in game design, like their ranking system. Once every so often when you rank up, you got the choice to unlock a new weapon. Also, when you ranked up, and you wanted the Commander position, which allowed you to drop supplies, call artillery strikes, and monitor the battlefield, you got automatically picked over people who were lesser in rank. The fun doesn’t stop there though, because many mods were created for this innovative game.

Project Reality

PR Mod for short, this mod made everything a lot more realistic, or at least as realistic as the PR developers could program into the extremely dated engine that Battlefield 2 relied upon. This game is extremely teamwork oriented and is not for the faint of heart. Each team has a couple squads and extremely limited specialized “kits,” or loadouts. These specialized kits are comprised of AT weapons, snipers, or demolitions. Most of these kits take almost a half an hour to be used again if they are lost! It doesn’t even stop there. Jets and tanks each can take almost the same amount of time to re-spawn once destroyed. Tanks even have two kinds of tank shells, which are used for armored targets, or infantry, and these shells take a couple seconds to reload, or to switch between the shell types. Actions in this mod take much more thought and planning, otherwise you could wind up having a two minute respawn time.

Forgotten Hope 2

Although I have a lot less experience with this game, FH2 as it’s called, is a lot like Battlefield 2… that is if you entered a time machine and went back to 1942. I don’t know what makes people reenact historical battles, but something about FH2 is just fun. Whether it’s using actual mortars to bring down the thunder, or having a dogfight in the skies of northern Africa, you can count on FH2 to have many fun opportunities to fulfill your lust for killing Nazi’s. Oh, yeah… did I mention you get flamethrowers?