Bye-Bye BF2

Right, I've had it with Battlefield 2. Goodness knows I've tried to get into it, but it really isn't happening.

Just now I thought I'd settle down and do as my good friend Michelle suggested: play a bit of single-player BF2 on Easy just to get to know the maps and the flow of play. However, it soon became apparent that even on Easy I wasn't having any luck. For all the reasons stated in my first post, plus that sinking feeling that this really wasn't my thing.

A real shame. I've only heard good things about this and really wanted to give it a real go, was prepared to take the blows as a learning experience, then earn my stripes with continued play - it wasn't to be.

I'll keep it installed on my PC for a while, see how I feel later, but it really didn't take long for me to realise perhaps I wasn't cut out for this sort of game, rather like me and Counterstrike.

So it probably isn't the best time to say that, thanks to a deal on Steam, and having some spare money on Paypal, I picked up Unreal Tournament 3 at the weekend for about £8. 8gb download! Having to get a bit every day - is this our bright digitally-distributed future?

Looking at reviews - most of which are uttely useless because they're written by people who have played every iteration of the game to death and give no insight into how the game would be for someone coming at it anew - it looks like a cross between BF2 and Quake, twitch warfare with vehicles. It remains to be seen if I'll be similarly useless at that too, but I'll give it a go.