‘You published The Cat In The fucking Hat! A game so utterly worthless it even let down the pathetic film!’

‘I hear that’s working out well for him. Like I care – I don’t wish any of these people well in their future endeavours. They should all have stayed doing the same thing forever because I liked having them around. ‘

Project Reality, on the other hand, turns the intensity up to 11. I’m sure you’ve tried it, it’s a total blast. As much as I love BF2, I’ve had more memorable moments in PR.

I’m also glad they added widescreen support to the latest beta of the 1.5 patch. No more stretching! No CD check! Improved Vista support! In short, awesome.

Had some great times with this in the past, hope I have some more soon.

Truth is his wrench.

What about problems like “What is beauty?”

I liked in in its prime, but going back now it doesn’t feel quite as satisfying as it used to. TF2 probably spoiled me on this.

One thing that bugs me is that it never feels like I kill anyone. The death animation doesn’t feel right.

Dolphin divers…you know who you are.

Co-op Berlin Desert Combat with the bots turned up to 10-1 is essentially Left 4 Dead but years earlier. ‘Oh shi-‘ ‘Over th-‘ ‘BRDM six o’clock!’ ‘Down down!’ ‘Hummvee inbound five seconds stay there guys.’ ‘Get behind it!’ ‘I’ve got ammo, I’ll spray, run for the point! GogogodiveYes! Stay down!’ ‘I’ll block them off around the corner!’ ‘Grenades, guys, spam grenades!’ ‘Capture in 4…3…’ ‘Nine o’clock swarm!’ ‘1…CAPTURED! Hold it!’ ‘Spawning there in three.’ ‘Gonna spawn west and cover the long street.’ ‘Leaving south alley, gonna grenade.’ ‘Let’s leave east and flank, guys.’ ‘Right!’

Other introductions to Battlefield include Battlefield 1943, which is coming out with a couple of the most popular maps from 1942 in a modern engine and rejiggered classes, and Frontlines Fuel of War from Kaos. I haven’t had a chance to touch my copy yet, but I hear the pitfalls are a bit of a reliance on drone tricks and RPG progression. OTOH, I hear it has a level where you’re under time pressure to fight your way behind terrain that will shelter you from nuclear explosions that blast over the battlefield from various directions.

It’s a shame that BF1942 Forgotten Heroes never grabbed the mainstream and completely breaks the bots, since some of their maps are just insane. There’s one I played where teams of snipers overlooking a river cover the laborious, swimming, trench-warfare style advance of their assault teammates from tiny log-strewn island to tiny log-strewn island. The whole time I was in it, crawling around behind logs and hillocks, all I could think of was that quote from All Quiet on the Western Front where our veteran laments the stupidity of new recruits who can’t spot cover until it’s a full eighteen inches deep. I saw another one, completely naval, where ship-launched scout biplanes duel with each other and AA to spot the enemy fleet so their big guns back home can dial in. Mad.

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Unfortunately I missed out on Battlefield. For a long time I didn’t do online shooters because of the often hostile communities that can populate this sort of game. Nowadays I’m better at games, and better at finding more pleasant communities to play with.

I’d love to have a go at Battlefield, might be worth waiting for the almost-certain-to-be-announced Battlefield 3, but until then which is the best one to start with?

I went back last year, realised how unpleasant getting into the game was and I’m fairly sure that they nerfed the rifle.

Still, my copy of PCG finally arrived, hurrah.