random comments:
The screenshots make me wonder what game they're playing. =(
Vehicles, vehicles, vehicles...blah. The walker and the hover tank are neat, the rest are OK I guess.
No comments on the similarities to BF2, since I didn't play enough of it to generate an opinion. I'll just say I like 2142 and have been playing it constantly, and I played BF2 maybe three hours over the several months I had it installed. My response to the reviewers query "is it better than BF2" is a hearty YES.
Titan mode is a triumph for me. It takes a well known formula and spruces it up without being too complicated or too ambitious.
I disagree.
Titan mode is both too complicated AND too ambitious for this old Tard.
But I agree 100% with his following comment:
you slog it out with the other team and in the end one or the other side will watch a titan ship blow up. It doesn't really matter if it's yours because ultimately you're playing for points. You're playing for points because you're an addict. An addict like me.
True. The only reason I play titan is that you can accrue a HEAPING ASSPILE of career points with very little effort. Between Titan Defense and Titan Assault points you can rack up a massive score even if you're playing lone wolf.
What moments were memorable? None in particular, the only impression you have is of the overwhelming battlefield experience.
I agree, and this is one of my complaints with many modern FPS games. They provide SO MUCH of everything that the experience lacks granularity. I've played a ton of this game over the last week, and I can't really remember any individual engagements. Contrast with the more limited in scope Counterstrike, where scarcely an evening went by without some kind of memorable encounter or event.
It's telling that disasters stand out in greater relief than accomplishment- my Walker screwup, or accidentally shooting a helicopter full of teammates.
I'm skipping the graphics page, it would just depress me.
I don't really understand anything on the sound page either...not surprising, since the last sound card I bought was an OEM Soundblaster Live! card back when 5.1 support was state of the art. All this chatter about X-Fi is Greek to me.
This bit I disagree with:
Also turn off the foreign voices by selecting yes on English VO, those voices are incredibly annoying.
Yes, they're annoying.
But they give you a competitive edge.
Leaving both languages enabled can give you valuable audio information about who's nearby.
Conclusion:
He likes it, but admits it was a lot like BF2 and complains about EA's ridiculous server problems.
I also like it, didn't play BF2 that much so the similarities aren't bothersome, and also decry EA's shoddy server performance.
Overall, pretty good review, if a bit shoddy on the prose style.
