Battlefield 2 (2005)
Genres:Shooter
Themes:Action, Warfare
Game modes:Single player, Multiplayer
Story:In Battlefield 2, players will choose to fight for one of three military superpowers: the United States, the Chinese, or the newly formed Middle East Coalition. Armed with the latest modern weaponry, players can take control of any of the game’s 30+ vehicles to engage in major conflicts with over 64 players in some of the largest online battles on the PC. Additionally, persistent character growth allows players to rise through the ranks and attain the ultimate rank of General.Show more
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Legendary Battlefield title with amazing modding support! Would love to see the game available to purchase digitally with official multiplayer servers online again.
One of my favorite shooting games, I really wanted it. I was looking to buy, but it didn't exist anywhere else. And I found out that EA had removed it from their library.
As a long time BF2 player and modder I couldn't recommend this game more highly.
There are so few good single player fps games around these days, and the few that exist in this genre still don't match the excellent ai and dynamic gameplay of BF2.
The fact that the game is still popular, and is still being modded after 20 years says it all in an age where games die quickly.
I'd love to see it on GOG!
I consider this by far the best of the entire franchise, before they went down to the heavily-compressed class system of the modern titles that started with 2142.
Many great memories playing coop LANs with many friends that came over after school and just having fun messing around against bots and doing heroic last stands on points.
100% deserves an official re-release on GOG since EA seem pretty damn insistent on keeping this and 2142 in the dirt despite the numerous community revivals over the decades.
Battlefield 2 (and its expansions) was a pinnacle in online gaming. Huge maps, big player counts, a solid progression system and endless mods. I had played many online games before this but this was the first game that truly had me hooked in my early teen years. I would play it for hours and hours a day with friends.
This game needs to have functioning multiplayer for it to be worth adding, though there are clients out there right now that allow you to play MP and it is still a blast.
It's been 20 years and I still play this time to time. It has its own bots, it has tons of mods I still don't know about, it can run on potato PCs and the graphics still looks fine. If you want to play online, you can find people to play with. And I'm sure more people would play if this released on GOG.
I played this a lot when I was in highschool. There was an American school near our school and we played this game with them a lot. We couldn't connect via language that much but we sure connected via BF2.
For me this is a timeless game. Why shouldn't it be timeless for everyone too?
Another childhood classic. Probably THE most mod-able Battlefield title in the entire franchise, and certainly THE best. Battlefield: Bad Company is second, in my opinion, due to its humorous story, and introduction of (major) destructible environment to the franchise.
But for this game, just the base game alone is not enough, we need the entire collection of every "official" DLCs this game has to offer for the complete experience. The amount of mods this game has is incredible, to say the least. Battlefield 2: Nations at War is one example of a "major" one, and if memory serves, it's still very much alive. Ditto for Project Reality as well, if I'm correct. And that's not mentioning the countless smaller mods (mostly maps and QoL improvements) for this game.
I only had the chance to play a pirated version of the title back when I was using my old PC (running Windows 7), but alas, even that's lost media now. My only hope for a DRM-free experience with this game is either a second-hand physical copy of the Complete Edition, which is not easy to come by in this day and age, or GOG.com. Can only hope for the best.
I remember coming home from school to play this game every day--excited as all get-out. I'd sit there at the family PC with an old, steel, military surplus helmet on my lap as a match loaded in (which felt like it took FOREVER on that old computer), drumming my fingers against its cool steel and textured paint.
I'm lucky to have snagged it on Steam digitally (after I lost my original boxes and CDs) before it was taken off the store, but if it (and Battlefield 2142, too!) came back to GoG, I'd buy copies for myself and anyone I could trick into playing this masterwork of online gaming with me. I still play it offline against the bots from time to time! It's still so, so fun. Nothing quite recreates the feeling that BF2 gives.
Enemy boat, spotted!
Enemy boat, spotted!
Enemy boat, spotted!
Enemy car, spotted!
Enemy--
No way, man.
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