An old favourite I missed: Battlefield 2142

A few days back I wrote a post about my original gaming addictions and I don't intend to contradict or amend anything I said in that post, but as I'm on a roll with posts today and I've just comment on how great Battlefield 3 is I thought I'd give an honourable mention to my favourite Battlefield game of all time, to date: Battlefield 2142.

I played this game on the PC, back when I considered I'd never give in to the dirty, low down consoles, which I now have - completely.

I owned the game and the expansion and this is why it was my favourite Battlefield game:

- Chain of command: in every game one player on each team could become the overall commander, this gave them access to ammunition drops, air strikes, EMP strikes, as well as being the only player with a complete overview of the battlefield and able to give orders to the squad leaders. The squad leaders could be given simple way point orders or told to attack or defend, or a mixture of all of these in one go! The squad leader would then set his objective or waypoint for his team. The squad leaders didn't have to follow the orders, no-one had to be a commander, but when you had a good command with several good squads willing to do as they were told it was remarkable how effectively a team could be and so enjoyable to be part of!

- No all dominating vehicles: I have felt that in recent Battlefield games there has been one or two vehicles that can potentially completely dominate the game. I feel this has become lessened in Battlefield 3, but engineers able to repair helos in flight you do get some ridiculous situations!

- Great variation of game modes: I loved Titan games, where each team had a giant floating space ship thing hovering around the map about 100 metres up. Each team had to activate SAMs to take down the oppossing team's titan's shields. They could use these to then destroy the titan but that was extraordinarily difficult or they could board them! These games moved around so much and fighting on the ground to fighting in the corridors of your titan made for such epic games.

Overall, I wasn't a huge fan of the setting of the game and the graphics and animation wasn't anything special, I just loved the wonderful depth and most of all the chain of command. So wonderful and yet not popular enough to see it return to future Battlefield titles.