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Battlefield 2 Preview

Joe "OuTkAsT-1" Topolnisky

2005-01-12 00:00:00.0


PC.IGN has tossed up a short preview on Electronic Arts' upcoming multiplayer shooter, Battlefield 2, after getting to check it out at this years CES. Here's some juice:

The game map itself was built for 32 players (the game scales itself in three steps, depending on how many of the max 64 players are in a combat zone, but it can't get smaller than the size we played on), and with only about 15 players running, it was fairly empty for a map as big as this. Instead of hunting down the few players that were on the server, we spent a lot of our time checking out the game map. Each area is balanced in its own unique way -- in one area we watched before getting our own hands on the game, the player was in an area with a lot of armory equipment when a tank rolled in, and had our choice of a wire-guided TOW missile launcher or a Stinger rocket system to put some dents in his tin can. The TOW fires much more damaging shots, but the Stinger, which is made for surface-to-air strikes, was still effective.


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