Darren S
ClioSport Club Member
Well, I'm still reinstalling the occasional game on the new i7 system and this weekend, I got around to Battlefield 2142.
As a few people may know from other threads & posts - I really do hold this game in very high regard indeed. It maybe from 2006, but the balance of map design, units and gameplay is just spot on, imo.
Fired it up with all the patches and the Northern Strike add-on applied, and did a search for online servers. The grand total? 57.
I was a little gutted, tbh. The last time I had this installed, there were triple figures (easy) in terms of servers hosting games. I looked through some of the server listings and some were knife-only (idiots) and thankfully only a few had infantry-only set as their preference - another dislike of mine.
I'm a little over 280 hours into it now in terms of recorded online time. I'll hope that the number of servers online enables me to reach a nice, round figure of 300 hours - at which point, I'll probably retire from BF2142 gracefully. Maybe.
It's been an epic game for me - easily pushing aside any other FPS game that I have tried to this very day. It's also in a unique genre, being probably one of the last PC-only FPS titles of worthy note. Not even Crysis can retain that title any more - with the upcoming sequel being made for the consoles too.
I always look forward to the future releases of games. But every now and then a true gem stands out, makes its mark and naturally over time is superseded by other titles. BF2142 is one of those games. If only they made Titan Mode available for single-player - I'd still be playing this game to death!
D.
As a few people may know from other threads & posts - I really do hold this game in very high regard indeed. It maybe from 2006, but the balance of map design, units and gameplay is just spot on, imo.
Fired it up with all the patches and the Northern Strike add-on applied, and did a search for online servers. The grand total? 57.
I was a little gutted, tbh. The last time I had this installed, there were triple figures (easy) in terms of servers hosting games. I looked through some of the server listings and some were knife-only (idiots) and thankfully only a few had infantry-only set as their preference - another dislike of mine.
I'm a little over 280 hours into it now in terms of recorded online time. I'll hope that the number of servers online enables me to reach a nice, round figure of 300 hours - at which point, I'll probably retire from BF2142 gracefully. Maybe.
It's been an epic game for me - easily pushing aside any other FPS game that I have tried to this very day. It's also in a unique genre, being probably one of the last PC-only FPS titles of worthy note. Not even Crysis can retain that title any more - with the upcoming sequel being made for the consoles too.
I always look forward to the future releases of games. But every now and then a true gem stands out, makes its mark and naturally over time is superseded by other titles. BF2142 is one of those games. If only they made Titan Mode available for single-player - I'd still be playing this game to death!
D.
