Others say...

"Not for the casual gamer"
If you are a casual gamer like me who is only looking to spend a hour per day playing a game, Battlefield 2 is definitely not for you. As a previous reviewer said, on paper, this game sounds fantastic, but in reality, playing this game will make you want to pull out your hair in frustration.

The game play has a very high learning curve, as you try in vain to learn the numerous elements of the game that you must master before successfully engaging in battle. These include learning to shoot with guns that are somewhat erratic and imprecise in comparison to other pure first person shooter games, and learning to fire missiles by factoring in the time it takes to hit a fast moving object.

Yes, it's all quite a bit to take in the beginning, and it stays that way well into your first week with this game. Unless you commit numerous hours (read 1000s) towards playing this game, you will stay a perennial "noob", and will constantly be taken down by your more experienced opponents in every painful manner imaginable.

And speaking of opponents, a lot of these players will likely have invested enormous amount of time and effort into getting as good as they are. Their figures are reflected in game statistics that can only be described as superfluous in the amount of worthless numbers they contain. If you are an expert gamer who enjoys pouring 1000s of hours into a game that has no relevance outside it's virtual enclosure, and like to obsess about stats that are equally meaningless, then you might enjoy it. For me, however, a week of maddening game play was more than enough to uninstall it and throw it back into the closet.

"Husband LOVES This Game...."
Bought this for my husband (avid Battlefield 1942/Call of Duty/Medal of Honor multiplayer). He LOVES this one. The graphics are amazing and it supports VOIP. Battlefiled 1942 fans will not be disappointed. There are medals and awards and your progress is tracked. All of your kills and deaths, even the weapon you're best served by.

"Don't bother if you want a single player campaign mode"
Maybe this is an excellent multi-player online game, I don't know, but I bought it for what I thought was a single player campaign mode. Well, as far as I can tell there is none. You can play around seven or ten battlefields capturing enemy flags, but one has nothing to do with the other. I must be missing out on the graphics too, although I have an Athlon 64 X2 5600+, 2GB Ram, XFX 8600GT 512MB. Go figure. To sum up, if you want single player action, stay away.

"Fun Online fisrt person shooter"
Fun game, when i played on my friends computer. Sadly it does not work on my newer laptop. Only buy if you have a gaming desktop with brand name graphics card.

"A fun game plagued by bugs"
The average person cannot buy this game and play it at home. A computer technician is the only one with the skills and patience to set up this horribly buggy game and get it to function. I've had this game for 2 days now, and it has repeatedly randomly crashed on me sending me right to the desktop, it has given me a bluescreen once, it has completely frozen my computer and forced me to do a reboot twice, and all this is right after spending hours trying to get it to function in the first place.

After trying to install the game, I go online and it says it cannot connect to the network. So I open the ports in the manual, and it still doesn't work. I had to search around for hours online to find the right ports, because the ones in the manual seem to not be the right ones (I found lots of discrepancies between the manual and online guides). Then there's the 500mb patch download, and then apparently, the game will not work on a user account on a domain, so I had to log in locally, then when I try to play it says my cd-key is not valid. I did a lot of research and this is another stupid bug, I get vague answers about running some cd-key encrypter tool, reinstalling the patch, updating punkbuster, and reinstalling the game, all in the right secret combination mind you, and really, after about 5 hours of frusteration I managed to connect to my first online server and play.

This game has so many bugs I don't even know what to say. What makes this so hard is that the game is also so fun to play. The graphics, vehicles, explosions, and teamwork dynamics are so awesome. But the bugs are so flagrantly horrible that whoever released this game honestly needs to be sued, because this is really ridiculous. So as fun as this game is, just stay away, trust me, its not worth the trouble.