Bought the Complete Collection off Amazon Marketplace for about £13 delivered, not too shabby. Spent an absolute age installing everything, well over 90 minutes of entering CD keys and applying patches, all the while thinking is this all to be in vain?
At about 12.30am I finally had the game running. My just-over-a-year-old PC handles it a max settings easily, so it looks fantastic.
To get used to controls and how it plays I started with the single-player mode, which I'm sure seasoned BF2 players would say wasn't a sufficient grounding in the game. I was woeful!
Okay let's see
- Kept getting lost - I'd frequently lose my AI squadmates and end up getting picked off by the enemy. Plus not knowing the map well I didn't know where to attack and in what order, something that I'm sure frequent play would remedy.
- Dying before realising it - despite trying to use cover, keeping low and avoiding open spaces whenever possible, frequently I'd hear a shot then die. You never get to see who killed you and from where, which I'm sure is how war works, but it was disconcerting to say the least.
- Confused - apart from losing my squadmates I'd also find all he icons all over the place confusing. Do I run towards that blue flashing one, or the purple shield one? Is the point I'm defending likely to be attacked or is it safe?
Hmm, I'm yet to take this online and looking at my current ability level I feel I'm not ready. But for the hell of it I should at least attempt it.
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