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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
1.0 stars
"Don't waste your time / money / disk space / effort"
Pros: Nice layout, graphics somewhat good
Cons: Multiplayer GUI sucks, in game lag horrible, spyware and adware in game itself, doesn't run on all systems
Summary: This game is a P.O.S.. Don't bother, The initial hype should have been a clue as to how bad this one was going to turn out. Basically at this point if you're considering this game, look elsewhere.
The game is laid out so you can have your standard unlocks based on the points system same as BF2, although here is the twist, you can't unlock just weapons, you have to unlock at least 3 items for that kit before you get the weapon, 6 promotions later I've finally unlocked one kit completely. This normally wouldn't be a problem but you're playing a multiplayer game agaisnt in many cases people who have nothing better to do then ***** up points all day. What this means is that you'll be a mediocre level kit, against guys who have super abilities, henceforth, regardless of how good you think you are, you'll spend most of your time dead and frustrated, killed by automatic sentry guns, motion mines, anti-personel mines and the like.
There are two modes of gameplay, conquest and titan. Conquest is just basic caputre the flag. Titan is a capture the flag with a twist. You capture missle silos which fire every 2 minutes, at the enemy titan (big ass ship). When enough missle hit this titan the sheild will go down and you can board it. Basically you treat it like the deathstar, you blow up the reactor control departments (4 of them) then you all pile in and blow up the reactor. If the titan is moving at all, prepare for the lowest FPS in the world, your dual GeForce set up will just die, not to mention your shooting ability which is affected by the moving surface you're on. Oh.. and if you die, and you most likely will due to the aforementioned items above, the moving titan will continue to move while you're body doesn't, so you'll never be revived, and have to board it all over again.
Overall this game looks like its about half finished, although EA in true business fashion just pushed it on out there, and decided to let its customers do the beta testing yet again. Pretty much standard SOP for any tech company these days, so they get a 2 rather then a 1.
I had this game for about a week, gave it all the chances in the world, tried small servers, tried both types of gameplay, tried large servers... the end result was the same everytime, frustrating, crashing to desktop, retarded players you name it.. Overall, this game SUCKS
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Agree totally with your gameplay comments. Impossible to avoid those "motion mines" or put up any kind of a fight. I too played until I'd unlocked a few things but sometimes these don't even show up!!!
Stay clear of this game unless you enjoy running/driving/flying around for about 10 seconds before you suddenly blow up or die.
True, you can be careful...by staying at your base or on your Titan. But then that sucks too.
Motion mines...rocket launchers attached to machine guns that don't trigger warnings, with glitches to boot. The demo was great though, all fair, but most the servers are gone now anyway. -
I have very few lag problems and know many people who dominate with the weapons you start with, not the unlocks. Getting killed by sentry guns and motion mines is not something to get mad about, you just need to be smarter about your play. It sounds to me like you want something along the lines of Battlefront or Halo (playing against CPU). This game makes you take it easy a bit, not just run around like a fool, its more realistic in the fact that you need to take cover and be careful. Looks to me like this just isn't your style of game, no reason to rate it poorly though.
Where to buy
Battlefield 2142 Deluxe Edition (PC):
$17.99 - $29.95
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