"One thing’s for sure however, Battlefield 2 won’t be being removed from the trusty solid state drive quite yet"

I was playing BF2 yesterday, A LOT of people are still playing Karkand and Wake Island. I'm patiently waitng for the B2K maps to release for Xbox 360, so for now I'm wasting away in the original BF2 versions.

‘Caspian Border’ meanwhile threatens to be a huge map, but confines most gameplay around the centre capture points (perhaps the intention?), again ending in engagements becoming little more than glorified deathmatch arenas.

This kind of makes sense. You'd want the main action in the middle of the map so it can ranch out in any direction from there. And as far as tactical gameplay is concerned, give me a break. You can only be so tactical, but in order to get anything done you HAVE to kill people. You HAVE to kill people to plant a bomb, you HAVE to kill people to take a control point. You're playing an FPS, of course its going to feel a little deathmatch-ey. I played BF2 and it's no different. The maps in BF3 are really great, plenty of different routes to take to objectives, etc. It seems like you enjoy BF2 more, and that's absolutely fine, but it seems a little silly to knock BF3 for something that is the same as in BF2.

I wish I had the chance to play BF2. But I played BC1 and 2 and BF3 is by far my favorite game to come out this year! <{{~Opinion

I'm a COD player...but fps is my genre. So I picked up BF3 LE, it's fantastic! I initially wasn't impressed. For all the reasons we already know....

But the feel of war is great, though I'd argue MAG pulls that off a bit better. Consoles are hurt by 24 plyr max.

And for a game that seems to have plenty of leets mocking MW3...why on consoles is conquest the least played mode? Server search shows every other play mode is always almost full!

Love both games, fps sweetness all around!

Why are they so reluctant to create a new Bad Company??

Definitely agree with the title. If they make Bad Company 3 then that would definitely be a step in the right direction!

It’s done. The current development team has no idea why people liked BF.

BF3? They need to go back to BF2 for the mainline. Heck, I'd settle for true-to-source remakes of BF2 and BC2 (w/ Vietnam). Everything they've done in the 'modern' era is just bad.

Doubt they will smh which is messed up

EAis pretending to be one of those deaf mutes

I've not played 2042 myself but after v I don't feel like it. I played a few hours of v with friends but it feels ultra sterile I can't figure it out but the game looks and feels clinical. The storys in the campaign were also bland and uninteresting and felt like a dull trudge through checkpoints as you waited for an ending.

I've played the franchise dating back to it's original PC launch and PS2 spin off games I did enjoy 1 overall and it's take on placing you in different scenarios and battles was interesting but not all that good imo as you couldn't really connect with any characters longer than 2 hours.

hardline for all the hate it recived was a fun story and a new take but a bad mp game

I feel like v overall was the turning point and instead of showing the gritty reality of war they turned everything sterile and presented it in a clean cut boring frame in order to pump it full of weird micro transactions overall they spent far to much time on trying to implant ray tracing and other graphical flourishes and forgot to make the game enjoyable

I mean thats all we've wanted since BF4 but they keep doing everything we don't want.