The Battle of a Lifetime

     Battlefield 2...the game that made me late to work, late to school and late to life. Friends would invite me out to dinner or any type of social gathering, I was always the last one there. Sure, I would lie. I'd say "I was feeling sick" or "I was busy with homework." After a while you can only use so many excuses until people start getting sick of it and just stop asking. This game wasn't an addiction, it was an experience. Admittedly, I played this game so much that I was really good and was ranked as one of the top players on many servers. So much so that some players would leave a server, because they knew I would dominate. The story and game play were simple. It was a first person shooter set in World War 3 between The U.S., P.L.A. (People's Liberation Army of China), M.E.C. (Middle-Eastern Coalition), the European Union and Russia. This was the first multiplayer game I ever played and thank goodness for that, because it also turned out to be one of the best games I ever played. In 2005 and 2006 it was named best multiplayer game of the year by many game critics. This was before Call of Duty was ever the game it is now. Even to this day it has a huge cult following by fans who wish to resurrect everything that was perfect with this game. There are currently more modern adaptations of Battlefield with better graphics and design but by no means as good as the original. The maps they add to the modern version of the game are just taken from this game purely because they were just that good. I may be biased, because I do have fond memories of this game, but they weren't all good. BF2 did suffer from it's share of connection issues, glitches and hackers that made my playing life, hell. When all is said and done, this game forced you to play as a team or else suffer the consequences of a loss. I rate it a 9 out of 10 due to problematic design features. This game is only available on PC.