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List Price: $39.99
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Manufacturer: Electronic Arts
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Batteries Included: 0
Binding: Video Game
Brand: Electronic Arts
EAN: 0014633156652
ESRB Age Rating: Teen
Feature: With Earth's icecaps threatening to cover the globe, civilizations must push toward the equator in an all-out war for every resource and every inch of land
Format: DVD-Video
Label: Electronic Arts
Manufacturer: Electronic Arts
Model: 15665
Platform: Mac OS X
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Release Date: 2007-10-30
Studio: Electronic Arts
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With Earth's icecaps threatening to cover the globe, civilizations must push toward the equator in an all-out war for every resource and every inch of land
Titans rule the skies - These massive airborne carriers/warships serve as home bases; teams must work together to destroy the enemy Titan
Fight the war of the future with devastating weapons like the NK-1000 Type 2 sniper rifle, deadly gadgets like the SD-8 Accipiter drone, and next-generation vehicles such as the mighty L-5 Riesig Battle Walkers
Build up your soldier's attributes as you see fit with more than 1500 combinations in the new skill tree system -- fight as a medic sniper, a recon engineer, and much more
More than 40 ranks and unlocks including special squad and commander upgrades
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Battlefield 2142 takes you into the far future, for all-new warfare in a world that's familiar but still different. As a new ice age depletes the planet's resources, two multinational coalitions wage a brutal war for the only cause that matters - survival. Armed with devastating futuristic weaponry and gear, plus Battle Walkers and vast airborne bases called Titans, you must coordinate the efforts to win the war for Earth's last fragile pieces of livable land.
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Summary: Lots of fun !!
Comment: I don't play a lot of games and I am a new Mac user as well. This plays great on my new MacBook Pro, 2.6 GHz, 4 Gb RAM, 512 video RAM, 200 Gb 7200 rpm drive, 17 -inch glossy screen Hi-Res. Smooth video and action. No problems what so ever. I'm very pleased.
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Summary: Better on PC
Comment: I played and loved this game on my mac, but i was using boot camp and running it on windows. When I saw it was out for osx i jumped at the chance to play it on my native operating system.I was sooo disappointed, this is a clumsy, inefficient and rough version of the game I had loved. To me this version is virtually unplayable.
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Summary: EA Hates Macs
Comment: I love this game, but playing it on a Mac is nothing but frustration. You'll pay twice as much for the game up front. Then you'll experience the wonderfully chaotic cider emulation. No matter how fast your Mac, you'll get laggy performance and lots of crashes.
Assuming you keep playing, you'll be disappointed to find EA never bothered to port the Northern Strike booster pack, so your choices of servers is limited (and this is a server-only game. No real single-player mode). Even better, when EA releases an incremental patch (to introduce new maps, new weapons and fix bugs), Mac owners get the patch about a month later than everyone else. I am currently waiting for the 1.50 patch. In the meantime, every server in the known world has upgraded to 1.50. In other words, I am unable to play the game. Furthermore, EA refuses to comment on when they'll get around to patching the Mac version.
Avoid this game. Buy the PC version if you must, but I suggest avoiding EA altogether. They have proven themselves to be unabashedly anti-consumer and happy to rest on their pile of Madden cash.
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Summary: good quality fps
Comment: This game is great. A solid storyline but,I wish the two armies had different weapons.I enjoyed playing it and it does not take as long as the other Battlefield games to set up. The combat and battles is great but I wish you could unlock things sooner . The AI is drilling you with grenades and advanced weapons when you do not even have a frag. In the mean time I just pickup the weapons of the dead guys who got unlocks . Have happy headshots!
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Summary: Awesome Game!!!! Runs Great on My MacPro
Comment: First off, I have never played BF2 and I read of many of those who have say that this is a glorified mod BF2.
I am running BF 2142 on a MacPro tower 2X4 core OSX Leopard 6GB RAM 750GB HD stock gfx card. And have NO performance issue.
These other reviewers that are whining about performance, are not running fast enough machines. This game demands fast hardware, if you play on anything below the minimum requirements, it will not run properly.
Having said that, the game itself occasionally crashes, but rarely. My biggest problems came from a cheap router I had, which caused me to constantly lose my connection. I replaced my router with a D-Link game router, and I have no more problems.
I have played BF1942, BF Vietnam and Halo, Quake(1-4) and Unreal Tournament.
What EA has always done a superb job with is game play and balance. Even my previous favorite, Halo, had some real imbalance regarding the pistol, no one should be able to snipe someone from 50 + yards with a freaking pistol! But the weapons are so well balanced in BF2142 that there is no real consensus on which weapons are truly better, I think this is because it depends on what you get used to/prefer. That is a good sign that they did a great job balancing the weapons.
What really makes this game superb in my opinion, is that they have really gone to great lengths to reward teamwork! You can be a "Lone wolf" if you want, but you will gain points and rank at 25% of what well performing squads can gain. The hierarchy is that orders come down from a Commander (You get killer points for commanding!) If the Commander gives orders, he gest points, if the Squad Leaders follow those orders he gets more points, if those orders result in success everyone gets even more points!! Likewise the Squad Leaders get more points when their fellow squad members follow those orders. Having played so many other FPS games without this feature, and being frustrated at the lack of teamwork or the ability to give orders, let alone receive reward for it, these new features make my heart sing!!
Another great feature is the game play modes. Gone is the Capture the Flag mode, which frankly I am bored to death of. The game types are Conquest, where the defender has all the points and you have to capture them and hold them. Assault Lines, where all the points start out neutral, and you fight to gain more. But the best of all is the Titan mode! The control points are actually missile silos, which you capture and reprogram to attack the enemy Titan shields. Once their shields are down, you can then board the enemy Titan and try to destroy their reactor, by first destroying 4 reactor consoles and then the reactor itself. Any description will fall short of doing this justice, it is a real blast!! I often play as Commander, helping my men capture the silos, then if and when our Titan gets boarded, I help defend our Titan. A real heart racing thrill!
The ranking system is great! With each new promotion you get an "Unlock" which allows you to access another weapon or piece of equipment in you player class tree. I am not familiar with how BF2 worked in this regard, and have read others complaints about the classes and unlocks, but I think this system rocks! I have filled out my Assault class and my Support class and am now filling out my Recon class. I just love the equipment I have gained, they really make a difference!
EA has also gotten the vehicles down! I know of no other game that has such excellent vehicles! Sure the gunship's seem to many to be too powerful, and there is no denying that if you are on the receiving end of a good enemy pilot, it can really stink. But a resourceful player can take one down without too much trouble, depending on the circumstance. Heck, last night I shot one out of the sky with my Support MG, that was trying to crush me by landing on me.
I would give this game 5 out of 5 stars for game play and entertainment, but I have to say that the bugs are very annoying! The came will occasionally crash, and I sometimes get a strange glich where there is no spawn point on the titan? Also it is often impossible to choose squad one from the list in commander mode. But these minor irritations won't stop me from playing the greatest FPS game to ever make it to the Macintosh.
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