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.