Battlefield 2 Footage

Things that stuck out for me from the long video:

1. No more health and ammo stations. Health and ammo are distributed by the Medic and Support character class. (A nod to Enemy Territory)

2. No custom character kits from BF:Nam. They stuck with the pre-built character kits from 1942. Thank goodness, no more maps without medics.

3. Iron sights. Hell yes.

4. The infantry combat looks much more solid. Excellent character animations, and a sprinting ability that looks like it's going to save your life many times.

5. Medics can revive fallen soliders with a defibulator. (Another nod to Enemy Territory)

6. Looks like they're really trying to balance infantry vs vehicles out. The infantry have some deadly anti-vehicle weapons, but the vehicles have some nice countermeasures like flares and smoke grenades.

7. Lots of things to encourage teamwork. You can join small squads, and the leader can give commands on the fly (ala SWAT 3), or go to the map and plant waypoints (which everyone in the squad can see). Also, as long as the squad leader stays alive, the squad can respawn next to him. This feature alone is going to make the game very interesting--keep the leader alive!

Not sure I like the reviving from the medic or the infinite ammo part from the support guy

If you have a group surrounded in a building or something you want them to either run out of ammo or get killed, and if they have the leader with them they can just spawn new people...

haha, it took two tank shots to blow up a jeep

I havent read too many reviews or seen the shaky vid yet, but can anyone tell me, judging from what they have seen, how arcadey vs realistic the infantry combat and vechile combat is. Ie. Is it stuper arcadey where it takes a solid clip of a machine gun to bring down the enemy al la 1942 or is it leaning towards the more realistic where a burst of the ak in NAM could bring downa guy.

Or better yet 1-2 shot kills from any of the major mods.

sucks that there is no naval warfare


:(

damn, it's looking hot. alright fighter jets buzzing the ground to hit targets is weird but who cares, we need another uber mp game and hopefully this is it.

Looks utterly fantastic. I want this game. Bad

This looks PIMP!!!

Except the explosions aren't big enough and the sound when someone blows up a tank, jet, vehicle or otherwise is pretty weak, not boomy enough... plus it seems to be the same sound used for every explosion. Variety is what makes it believable!

That short view distance and pop-upping sucks. Seems like there's no progress made since the original BF...

So is the m249 saw and other heavy machine guns mountable a la Day of Defeat? Or are they just 'looking like they are mounted'? Thats what all the bf games needed so far, mounting.

http://www.bf-con05.de/gal_details.php?go=detail&cat_id=818&id=24465

I don't know about you, but the models are looking really plastic to me. People bitched about the way the models and environment looked on D3, but this is just too much IMO.

Also, it looks like the different armies have the same vehicles models, just with a few different skins? Look at the tanks on the screenshot, the turrets are the only difference between them. Pretty weak if you ask me.

yessssssss, demo!! but when!? (april/may hopefully)

Is the shakeycam vid worth the DL or is it all in german?

We are having serious hosting issues so if you cant access the site for the links here they are:

68 MB Trailer:
http://www.ausgamers.com/files/details/html/15688
http://www.worthdownloading.com/download.php?gid=720&id=3786
http://www.fileplanet.com/dl.aspx?/planetbattlefield/bf2trailer_high_divx.zip
http://www.filerush.com/download.php?target=bf2trailer_high_divx.rar (Torrent File)

560 MB Vid:
http://www.ausgamers.com/files/details/html/15692
http://bf2.4players.de:1045/index.php?templateid=download&file=22
http://bf2.nzbattlefield.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=getit&lid=20
http://www.pexgames.com/filebase/?act=file_info&id=26975
http://www.filerush.com/download.php?target=releaseparty-fin.avi (Torrent File)

This is going to be the game that finally makes me cave and buy a joystick. The aerial combat alone looks to be worth the price of admission :)

YES, warning tones for missle locks. Wire guided missles. This is the stuff I wanted to see.

Once again I've got the gaming equvilent of Blue-Balls.....

Very cool.

I hope that now - after the 1057th real gameplay footage video from some public demonstration - people would stop saying "they haven't released any gameplay videos yet!!1".

BF2 looks really promising!