Battlfeild 2

I have been playing around with the Battlefield 2 Demo. I must say this is one of the best multi player FPS I have ever played. I have 2 Problems in general with FPS's that try to simulate real combat (games like Call of Duty, Wolfenstein:Enemy Territory etc, and epically Counter Strike)

1. You die to easily. True in battlefields you do die easily. The average person can not take an rpg and survive. However these are games not real life and i don't like spawning turning a corner and instantly dieing without knowing why. Especially in counterstrike this can cause a long learning period as it is difficult to learn anything when you die so easily.
2. Snipers/campers. I'm sorry but snipers relay piss me off. I like actually fighting someone, not getting ambushed with no way to defend myself. Mabe it's cause i'm not very good but to me sniping and getting sniped is not fun. Seriously get in the frey people. To me snipers are people who are too scared to get into real combat and risk being virtually killed. So my scores are not so high at least i'm in there having fun.
   

Anyway Battlefield 2 has not solved these problems but it has lessened them. You can still die in 1 hit but it's harder. You have more HP than in most games. Unless you get hit in the head a sniper will not kill you in 1 shot. The guns are less accurate. To hit someone at distance you need to get down, zoom in and aim. Even then only 1 in 3 shots may hit depending on gun and distance. The only advantage snipers have is that their guns are more accurate and have longer range, not Uber power.

The classes are well balanced, each has good and bad thing but the differences are smaller, they are not extreme. You can easily do without one class or another, except anti tank, every team needs a few of them to kill vehicles. You can build squads and you have a commander that forwards orders to each squad to control the battle. Also it has a built in voice chat but that is pretty standard now.

Now for the vehicles. They are very cool. You have Tanks, Jeeps, Dune buggies, APC's, Attack Helicopters, troop Transport Helicopters and jets. using the vehicles is fun and necessary especially to extend your life and get to the battle quickly. I still cant fly those planes though, crash every time but since every one has a parachute you can fly over the battle and jump out. Fast way to get to there artillery so you can destroy it.

To conclude Battlefield 2 is very good. If you a noob you can drive vehicles or be a vehicle gunner fairly easily. You can choose an easy class like anti tank or assault or hang back and heal people until you get the hang of the game. Plus since you only have a 15 second re spawn you and die a bunch of time and still get back into the game fast. Play it now. The only way to make it better would be to remove the sniper rifle compleatly from the game.