A year ago when Battlefield 2 came out, many players are faced with an unexpected problem: the system requirements for the game were so high that many recruits managed to avoid conscription as a virtual computer. Today's Battlefield 2142 is built on the same engine (which did not become worse), system requirements are the same, but the computers we have now a-go-go, just in a fight! Well, the second attempt.
If the last part of the Battlefield were strictly historical, they used the technique only really existed in conditions "close to war", in Battlefield 2142, we become participants in the next world war. On Earth, comes the second glacial period, angry little people are divided into two warring camps (conventionally: "Russian" and "all others") and begin to slaughter the last habitable area near the equator. By the way, by default, each side speaks its own language, "our" in Russian, "the rest" in English. How did a nice once, to hear the correct, competent speaking Russian instead of cheap popular "Basil! Come on! Goeth that cover! ".
 | |  | It is necessary to establish a normal defense in one turn, and there is no doubt: the enemy attacked from the other side. | | In Titan mode, the battle takes place simultaneously and on earth and in heaven, the "Titan" .. |
As it turns out, after 136 years mankind has not invent any teleportation or a hyperspace engine, or an atomic bomb (find an error in this sentence). War are all the same with the Marines in the same gun at the ready. Armed with the two sides are tanks, jeeps, APCs, helicopters and transports, which differ little from their modern counterparts. The funny thing is the exception, perhaps, the Chinese hovertank "Nekomata on antigravity pad. He can not rotate the turret, but a lovely soul "strafe" left and right. But the hallmark of this part of Battlefield are, of course, two-legged walking machine - T-39 "Hercules" and the European counterpart L5 Riesig. Bellows to move much more slowly than other techniques, however, firstly, may step over small obstacles and, secondly, are protected so that the fit to call them "walking-locks."
For the first time in the game there is a new mode! Therefore, the final number of modes in Battlefield 2142 is equal to ... (Orchestra, tush!) Two! Old and familiar Conquest is loved by all struggle for control points on the map. Newcomer called Titan; it over the map hang two volatile mobile fortress, two huge transporter type MK-1 Titan. The task is simple as ABC: destroy someone else's "Titan" and save their own. First, teams need to seize ground missile silos, to remove the force field around the ship, then the victory will be two options: either continue to batter the car rockets, or throw on the side of case teams, which proberetsya inside the ship, destroy the control console, and then blow up the central core. Fun, fast, juicy, and adds an entirely new type of game - infantry fighting inside the spacecraft.
 | |  | Repin's painting: the defenders of "Titan" waiting "respawn" helicopter. | | On coordinated team play in Battlefield 2142 and look nice. |
Class system in comparison with Battlefield 2 was both improved and simplified. Now the choice of only four professions, but they are the incarnation of all that knew how old classes. Shooter (Assault) serves simultaneously as a marksman (Assault) and medic (Medic) (although the ability to resurrect need more "open"); reconnaissance (Recon) does the job of a sniper (Sniper) and spy (Special Forces); Engineer (Engineer) got a rocket launcher and incorporates the class of heavy infantry (Anti-tank); and only gunner (Support) has remained virtually unchanged. This new system is much more convenient: on the one hand, a novice is much easier to understand the specialization classes, on the other - all classes are equally in demand, there is no clear leaders and outsiders.
A new system of rewards and bonuses - yes, such is not in any other shooter. Its essence is this: when you install Battlefield 2142, in each class will be available only a few basic items and weapons. You play on the servers, to gain experience, get a medal and a new title for which, in turn, be able to choose the so-called «Unlock» - inaccessible at first bonus. Each of the four classes of your tree and you have to choose what, when and for whom the open. The irony is this: senior soldiers and recruits are on the same server. Only from familiarity with the game, you see, as a neighbor of the trenches throwing a grenade at the advancing, and think: 'Wow! That's what I want! What the button is garnets? ". Look at the options menu and discover that the grenades are not "on the button." Pomegranates should be opened for local experience points. It's not enough that hurt, so still and fair: Experienced players are known in a more advantageous position than novices. Such a system of bonuses adds intrigue to the Battlefield 2142 a good MMORPG, primitive collecting interest - Collect them all! - And fueled interest in what happens. But it also interferes with the play to get the laurels of a serious, tournament shooter, where victory depends on skill and not on the number of hours spent in front of the monitor.
 | |  | If you see an enemy "big robot" in sight anti-tank rifle, this is not a victory. One salvo of "Heroes" will not take. | | The game has no single player campaign, but a successful online game will open up new types of weapons and a lot of bonuses. |
Haste makes waste. Obvious: the game is not completed yet. Despite the fact that during the public beta, developers have destroyed more than three thousand of bugs in the game then there were inexcusable much, too much, to be put down to carelessness. Patch version 1.01 was released on the day of Battlefield 2142, but after he had left a lot of trouble error: communication with the server is unstable, sometimes the connection is broken, the server does not always write down your stats, but the client does not always update. System of protection against cheaters PunkBuster sometimes refuses to update, and then the unlucky players without explanation sling from the servers.
Multiplayer mode for some reason, Titan supports a total of 48 players, although the network matches with the participation of 64 fighters were always facing the series Battlefield. In the same mode, Titan is someone to start running "Titan", and the frame rate is rarely more than ten or fifteen. Downloads were devilishly long. When you first start Battlefield 2142 you can easily sit in front of words "is optimizing shaders" more than ten minutes - and this adventure awaits you every time you want to change the graphics settings. All these problems seem even more strange when one recalls that DICE is not new to creating online shooter and could well have something to learn for many years.
 | And if you see an enemy "big robot", and have in the hands of only assault rifle, then this is the first sign that it's time to turn around and crawl to the cemetery. |
Finally, in many places, the game clearly could and should be improved: for example, make the main menu, whose appearance would not have to precede bg "loaded the main menu. Still very much that at the end of the Battle of the "Titans defeated the ship is not hanging in the air as the cloth in the hole, and scatter in a million little pieces, illuminating the sky with a bright flash, deafening soldiers, turning technology shock. That would be the right choice! Even sci-fi plot does not benefit: if before every game the series was his face, so to speak, the "atmosphere", then today's Battlefield hitroskruchennym with its plot and trite designs mechanism is lost in the crowd of other "games of the future." There are no single-player campaign, though the console versions of Battlefield 2 have shown that the game is perfect for singles. Maps of all ten of them in single player with bots available, exactly half.
Errors, of course, correct, but it's not a reason to forgive the developers. Recall, for example, Quake 4, where the multiplayer mode was almost perfect from the outset. Unexpected bunch of bugs, another setting, a new system of classes and bonuses - a step for the series rather than forward, and to the side. One new mode of Titan weather does: Battlefield 2 was one of the best online shooter, the new dress he had them actually left. And it's frustrating, because the series formula remains the same now as four years in a row.
 | For Sale ads in Battlefield 2142! |
In the box with the Russian edition of Battlefield 2142 is enclosed leaflet, warning: "This program uses technology developed by IGA Worldwide Inc., Hereinafter - the advertising technology." Advertising technology is designed to demonstrate the use of advertising during the program on the Internet. " In fact, the maps of Battlefield 2142 are placed billboards, which now look quite natural. Can also be billboards in Minsk in 2142, really? At the time of this writing, there hangs a fictional agitation, but in the near future, it will give way to advertising images. And yet from the Australian version of Battlefield 2142 advertising had to cut: Australia collecting information from a client is illegal. "If you do not want to IGA collect, use, store and transmit the data practices described in this section shall not install or run software on any platform connected to the Internet" - puts an author of warning. Where a player can shove Battlefield 2142 in the absence of the Internet, the text is silent.
 | |  | In the melee heavy machine gun infantry grinds on offal. | | Hovertank "Nekomata" can not rotate the turret, but strafe a lovely soul. |
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