![]() Hit the quick match button and within seconds you’ll be playing on a server, without having to worry about being kicked off randomly. Connecting to the EA ranked servers doesn’t require the same arcane black art that was needed in the early days of Battlefield 2 on the PC. ![]() What really blew me away about playing Modern Combat over Xbox Live is just how seamless the whole process is. So, what’s the online multiplayer gameplay like? Well it’s probably safe to say that Modern Combat offers the best multiplayer experience of any X360 title to date. Just like its PC forefather, Modern Combat cries out to be played online, with real comrades and real enemies. Realistically though, Battlefield 2: Modern Combat isn’t a single player game, that’s just not what it’s about. ![]() The Campaign mode is a neat touch – not only does it add a decent single player experience, but it also allows novice users to hone their skills a little before having to face a server full of hardened mercenaries waiting to add them to their kill tally. Likewise, if you get killed, you will instantly hot swap to another member of your squad so that you can carry on the fight – this will happen continually until you actually run out of squad members and fail the mission. So, if you’re playing a sniper hiding out on a rooftop and you see an enemy tank rolling towards you, you can quickly hot swap to an engineer and take the tank out with an rocket. The coolest aspect of the Campaign mode is the ability to “hot swap” – this means that you can instantly switch between different troops in your squad at the touch of a button. To be honest the Campaign mode isn’t bad, and if you like single player squad based FPS games, you’ll get to grips with it in no time, although it plays more like Call of Duty 2 than Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter. The Campaign mode tries to interject a single player angle into the Battlefield 2 universe – something that the PC version just didn’t bother with. When you fire up Modern Combat you realise that it’s split into two parts – Campaign mode and Xbox Live mode. Although Modern Combat was released on the PS2 and Xbox last year, the Xbox 360 version has only recently broken cover, and while it’s probably not a worthwhile purchase if you’ve already got the PS2 or Xbox versions, if you’ve yet to experience the BF2 phenomenon, it’s well worth a look. Moving a game as mammoth as Battlefield 2 over to a console platform was never going to be easy, but Battlefield 2: Modern Combat does a pretty good job. But although both the squads and Commander added extra depth to a well run server, most public servers are populated by players who have no concept of team work, and just want to randomly run around shooting anything that moves. The ability to form squads also took things to another level, as did the appointment of a Commander. It’s fair to say that Battlefield 2 pushed the boundaries of online first person shooter games, and the desire to make it to that next rank, or grab that next medal made gameplay pretty compelling. I loved playing Battlefield 2, but what I didn’t love was constantly being thrown out of servers for no apparent reason, being told that I was running the wrong patch and waiting absolutely ages to get onto a ranked server in the first place. When Battlefield 2 launched on the PC last year it caused quite a stir – partly because it was a truly brilliant multi-player warfare simulation and partly because actually getting it to work could be frustrating, to say the least. ”’Platforms: Xbox 360, Xbox, PS2 – Xbox 360 Version Reviewed.”’
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