BoS Takes a Look at:Battlefield 2142
Enemy Titan Spotted! -EU Soldier
Every time I see this box, it reminds me that there is no Battlefield 2143.
The title maybe deceiving, but it's true. I LOVE Battlefield 2142. If there was a game that I had to choose as number one, it would be this. See, if I were Ben Yatzhee Crowshaw, this would be my Silent Hill 2. In fact before I get into the whole review aspect of it, this is the game that I use to defend myself as a gamer and games themselves. It's an FPS that I still play even after 3 years, for sometimes 4 hours a day, to remind myself that no matter how games may disappoint, (Pikmin) or cause massive amounts of rage, (Team Fortress 2), there is still, one game that I can rely on to be my Brass Ring, and my one and only game, that I can call perfection. Everything from it's simple change of year, to the change of fighting terrorists in the desert, to fighting Russians or Brits in snowy Verdun, Belgrade and Berlin, (and yes the Sahara) and having futuristic weapons that have some detail and variety to them. (Very thin shot at Halo) Plus having the greatest game mode I have ever played, Titan mode. But gushing aside, lets get into why, this game is my favourite.
Short History
Released by EA in North America on October 18 2006, the game is set in an upcoming Ice Age, where the EU and North America is fighting Russia and the Indian Subcontinent for control of the Sahara and the remaments of Europe, to decide who will live to see 2200. Titans rule the skies. Gunships weave and fight in the air. Walkers duel each other in the streets and soldiers fight, to control the next snowy bombed out house, or sandy refugee camp. But really, this isn't about victory. This is about survival. (Somewhat taken text from the marketing blurb)
Gameplay
The game play of Battlefield 2142 is like any FPS, where you join a team and shoot your foes. You can join either the European Union or the Pan Asian Coalition, for control of Europe and North Africa. Each team has 4 different classes, (Assault, Support, Recon and Engineer) who have their own uses throughout a match. Teams of 32 can be split into 9 squads, with a maximum of 6 people a squad. Squad leaders can decide where to attack and defend, to boost a person's score on the scoreboard and gain unlock points for unlockable upgrades and experience points. Everything you do gets you experience points like in COD4, such as repairing, reviving friendly troops with a Defibulator, healing, supplying ammo, assisting kills, just being in a vehicle while someone gets a kill, and certain rewards you get for achieving special objectives, such as the Air Defence Pin, which is rewarded for 10 kills in an AA gun, the Collectors Badge, which is rewarded for 7 knife kills a round for bronze, 10 for silver and 15 for gold. Everything except badges is a one time boost to your XP, but pins keep being dropped every time you meet their requirements, giving you a sense of achievement, even though you keep dying, because unlike COD4 or TF2, where achievements are 1 time only, BF2142 keeps chugging incentive your way. A whole list of BF2142 awards are found here
The Experience points you get in a round, levels you up, and gaining an unlock to boost your in-game soldier. You can change your sniper (Recon Class) into a full Reconnaissance trooper, by having an invisibility machine, Demopax to blow up tanks and defences, and a Carbine to shoot your way out of anything. Each class has 2 tracks of Unlocks, which lead to unlocking 2 new weapons for that class, such as either the Pilum Anti - Tank or SAAW AA missile launcher for Engineer. There are also general and squad upgrades, so your soldier can fire more Pistol rounds, Have 3 grenades (So no grenade spam like Grenade of Grenade 4, even if you can resupply those 3 grenades, because if you nade someone, there is probably a medic ready to revive them) sprint longer, and have Squad Beacons (Respawn Points)to boost your efficiency. There is no special upgrades for you if you are a Commander though.
Sidi Power Plant. The Greatest FPS map in existence.
Teams have a commander who will unleash EMP strikes, Ion barrages and Supply drops to troops out in the field. Squads can get orders from a commander to help trouble areas or to flank weak points. In Conquest mode, if you defend a point on a map that the commander assigns, you get points just like a squad leader telling a objective to his own squad. In Titan mode the commander also gets the ability to move a Titan ship, which usually ends with two Titans side by side, with troops pod dropping onto the other Titan. Like a Pirate battle in the future. In the Sky. Yes...
If you play the game, you'll note no one is using typing or a mic. Everyone is using the Commo Rose, which has every response you will need to play from "Enemy Walker Spotted! It's Definitely hostile!" to "Right-o!" To access the Commo Rose, press Q, and just send the mouse to what you want. Most likely it's for "Medic!, I Need A Ride! or Enemy Sniper!" Before I wrap this up, I'll talk about the cherry on top of BF2142, Titan Mode.
Titan Mode
Diary Entry October 18 2142 - EU Silver Field Marshal BassHeadphones
The Titan is, like a huge, breathing bird. It flies in the air, and has a heart and blood stream. Just in this case, the blood stream is the security consoles, and the heart is it's core. It defends itself, and has skin to protect itself, but if enough hunters get enough arrows into it, it won't survive for much longer. Sort of a romanticized view of it's turrets, it's shield and the Titan missiles scattered all over the Suez Canal. First, I got a squad of 6 men to follow me to capture Silos 2, 4 and 5 giving us a firepower boost against the PAC. We hunkered down in Silo 1, after a long time of fighting and gave our side a position near the PAC base. Sadly, I wasn't able to revive a few of my mates in time. I'm pretty sure they respawned in the EU Titan by now. It was easy to keep Silo 1, because the Commander moved the Titan in a position to fire shells to help us against the enemy Tanks and Walkers. After 30 minutes, we got a message from our Commander telling us that the Enemy Titan's shield was down. The remaments of my squad followed me into an APC which we used to launch on the Titan. After placing a Squad beacon on te Titan's roof, we went inside the Titan, which was surprisingly empty. As to not alert the enemy to one area, we put Demopax's on all 4 consoles, before blowing them up, so the enemy couldn't camp inside a console pathway. The door to the core was opened and we started plugging shells and grenades into the core. By that time, both EU reinforcements and PAC defenders showed up, causing a major stalemate. After 10 minutes of stalemate, one of the Titan missiles made a direct hit to the Titan's helipad, right above the Core. Russian sirens and alarms start going off, yelling that the Core has been destroyed, and there was 20 seconds to evacuate. At that point. everyone stopped fighting, and ran. Ran like crazy. In fact there was a PAC soldier beside me and he didn't bother trying to shoot. He was just trying to flee. After jumping from the Titan, I fell and used my parachute, just before I hit the ground, so I didn't get caught from the Titan blast and the Fleeing PAC soldiers, who would duel other soldiers in their parachutes, to shoot them down. Finally, the Titan blew up, we repelled the PAC, and I'm ready to fight another day.
As super nerdy as that was, that's sort of how it works. The Titan has a shield, and you capture silos to shoot the shield down. After a Titan's shield is down, you either shoot the Titan down, through the Titan Silos around the map, or land on a Titan to blow up it's 4 security consoles and then infiltrate its core and blow it up. THEN RUN LIKE HELL. It's a 45 minute round after round of pure excitement, that never gets old.
Meet The Combatants!.
Final Comments
In short, I LOVE THIS GAME. It gives me rewards for playing, and gives me enough diffrent ways to play each game, which is roughly 30 to 50 minutes length. It honestly is a immersive game, especially in the snowy ruins of Europe, where you and your other teammates are fighting for land and survival. Plus, Titan mode is the greatest mode in a game I've played. If you've played this game, as much as it may not be your favourite, it's still undeniabley fun.
If I were to rate this on the OXM scale, it would be, 11/10. Utter gaming perfection. In my eyes at least.
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BoS Takes a Look at:Battlefield 2142
Enemy Titan Spotted! -EU Soldier
The title maybe deceiving, but it's true. I LOVE Battlefield 2142. If there was a game that I had to choose as number one, it would be this. See, if I were Ben Yatzhee Crowshaw, this would be my Silent Hill 2. In fact before I get into the whole review aspect of it, this is the game that I use to defend myself as a gamer and games themselves. It's an FPS that I still play even after 3 years, for sometimes 4 hours a day, to remind myself that no matter how games may disappoint, (Pikmin) or cause massive amounts of rage, (Team Fortress 2), there is still, one game that I can rely on to be my Brass Ring, and my one and only game, that I can call perfection. Everything from it's simple change of year, to the change of fighting terrorists in the desert, to fighting Russians or Brits in snowy Verdun, Belgrade and Berlin, (and yes the Sahara) and having futuristic weapons that have some detail and variety to them. (Very thin shot at Halo) Plus having the greatest game mode I have ever played, Titan mode. But gushing aside, lets get into why, this game is my favourite.
Short History
Released by EA in North America on October 18 2006, the game is set in an upcoming Ice Age, where the EU and North America is fighting Russia and the Indian Subcontinent for control of the Sahara and the remaments of Europe, to decide who will live to see 2200. Titans rule the skies. Gunships weave and fight in the air. Walkers duel each other in the streets and soldiers fight, to control the next snowy bombed out house, or sandy refugee camp. But really, this isn't about victory. This is about survival. (Somewhat taken text from the marketing blurb)
Gameplay
The game play of Battlefield 2142 is like any FPS, where you join a team and shoot your foes. You can join either the European Union or the Pan Asian Coalition, for control of Europe and North Africa. Each team has 4 different classes, (Assault, Support, Recon and Engineer) who have their own uses throughout a match. Teams of 32 can be split into 9 squads, with a maximum of 6 people a squad. Squad leaders can decide where to attack and defend, to boost a person's score on the scoreboard and gain unlock points for unlockable upgrades and experience points. Everything you do gets you experience points like in COD4, such as repairing, reviving friendly troops with a Defibulator, healing, supplying ammo, assisting kills, just being in a vehicle while someone gets a kill, and certain rewards you get for achieving special objectives, such as the Air Defence Pin, which is rewarded for 10 kills in an AA gun, the Collectors Badge, which is rewarded for 7 knife kills a round for bronze, 10 for silver and 15 for gold. Everything except badges is a one time boost to your XP, but pins keep being dropped every time you meet their requirements, giving you a sense of achievement, even though you keep dying, because unlike COD4 or TF2, where achievements are 1 time only, BF2142 keeps chugging incentive your way. A whole list of BF2142 awards are found here
The Experience points you get in a round, levels you up, and gaining an unlock to boost your in-game soldier. You can change your sniper (Recon Class) into a full Reconnaissance trooper, by having an invisibility machine, Demopax to blow up tanks and defences, and a Carbine to shoot your way out of anything. Each class has 2 tracks of Unlocks, which lead to unlocking 2 new weapons for that class, such as either the Pilum Anti - Tank or SAAW AA missile launcher for Engineer. There are also general and squad upgrades, so your soldier can fire more Pistol rounds, Have 3 grenades (So no grenade spam like Grenade of Grenade 4, even if you can resupply those 3 grenades, because if you nade someone, there is probably a medic ready to revive them) sprint longer, and have Squad Beacons (Respawn Points)to boost your efficiency. There is no special upgrades for you if you are a Commander though.
Teams have a commander who will unleash EMP strikes, Ion barrages and Supply drops to troops out in the field. Squads can get orders from a commander to help trouble areas or to flank weak points. In Conquest mode, if you defend a point on a map that the commander assigns, you get points just like a squad leader telling a objective to his own squad. In Titan mode the commander also gets the ability to move a Titan ship, which usually ends with two Titans side by side, with troops pod dropping onto the other Titan. Like a Pirate battle in the future. In the Sky. Yes...
If you play the game, you'll note no one is using typing or a mic. Everyone is using the Commo Rose, which has every response you will need to play from "Enemy Walker Spotted! It's Definitely hostile!" to "Right-o!" To access the Commo Rose, press Q, and just send the mouse to what you want. Most likely it's for "Medic!, I Need A Ride! or Enemy Sniper!" Before I wrap this up, I'll talk about the cherry on top of BF2142, Titan Mode.
Titan Mode
Diary Entry October 18 2142 - EU Silver Field Marshal BassHeadphones
The Titan is, like a huge, breathing bird. It flies in the air, and has a heart and blood stream. Just in this case, the blood stream is the security consoles, and the heart is it's core. It defends itself, and has skin to protect itself, but if enough hunters get enough arrows into it, it won't survive for much longer. Sort of a romanticized view of it's turrets, it's shield and the Titan missiles scattered all over the Suez Canal. First, I got a squad of 6 men to follow me to capture Silos 2, 4 and 5 giving us a firepower boost against the PAC. We hunkered down in Silo 1, after a long time of fighting and gave our side a position near the PAC base. Sadly, I wasn't able to revive a few of my mates in time. I'm pretty sure they respawned in the EU Titan by now. It was easy to keep Silo 1, because the Commander moved the Titan in a position to fire shells to help us against the enemy Tanks and Walkers. After 30 minutes, we got a message from our Commander telling us that the Enemy Titan's shield was down. The remaments of my squad followed me into an APC which we used to launch on the Titan. After placing a Squad beacon on te Titan's roof, we went inside the Titan, which was surprisingly empty. As to not alert the enemy to one area, we put Demopax's on all 4 consoles, before blowing them up, so the enemy couldn't camp inside a console pathway. The door to the core was opened and we started plugging shells and grenades into the core. By that time, both EU reinforcements and PAC defenders showed up, causing a major stalemate. After 10 minutes of stalemate, one of the Titan missiles made a direct hit to the Titan's helipad, right above the Core. Russian sirens and alarms start going off, yelling that the Core has been destroyed, and there was 20 seconds to evacuate. At that point. everyone stopped fighting, and ran. Ran like crazy. In fact there was a PAC soldier beside me and he didn't bother trying to shoot. He was just trying to flee. After jumping from the Titan, I fell and used my parachute, just before I hit the ground, so I didn't get caught from the Titan blast and the Fleeing PAC soldiers, who would duel other soldiers in their parachutes, to shoot them down. Finally, the Titan blew up, we repelled the PAC, and I'm ready to fight another day.
As super nerdy as that was, that's sort of how it works. The Titan has a shield, and you capture silos to shoot the shield down. After a Titan's shield is down, you either shoot the Titan down, through the Titan Silos around the map, or land on a Titan to blow up it's 4 security consoles and then infiltrate its core and blow it up. THEN RUN LIKE HELL. It's a 45 minute round after round of pure excitement, that never gets old.
Final Comments
In short, I LOVE THIS GAME. It gives me rewards for playing, and gives me enough diffrent ways to play each game, which is roughly 30 to 50 minutes length. It honestly is a immersive game, especially in the snowy ruins of Europe, where you and your other teammates are fighting for land and survival. Plus, Titan mode is the greatest mode in a game I've played. If you've played this game, as much as it may not be your favourite, it's still undeniabley fun.
If I were to rate this on the OXM scale, it would be, 11/10. Utter gaming perfection. In my eyes at least.
More of BoS's senseical ramblings:
BoS Takes A Look At Sonic The Hedgehog
BoS Takes A Look At Knuckles The Echidna