Battlefield 2142

Battlefield 2142 is probably the best game yet for me. It features instant, hard-core action, with team cooperation as squads, with a common goal. Think mindless FPS shooters except with a clear note to strategy and prioritising targets.

Players form into two teams, the PAC and the EU, and battle it out using one of 4 kits: the Engineer, the Sniper, the Support, or the Assault. The beginner player will start off with basic weaponry, and unlock further gadgets and weapons with more playing.

The Engineer has repair capabilities, but also as anti-vehicle weapons. Its unlocks feature the vehicle motion mine, the anti-aircraft missile launcher, the armour piercing high-caliber cannon and a bomb-defuser.

The Sniper has recon and special forces skills. He can choose to place AntiPersonnelMines, explosives [demo packs], equip himself with a scope stabilizer and a zoom scope, or get stealth capabilities which allow him to become *slightly* invisible.

The Support provides Ammo and has heavy machine guns. He can deploy stationary sentry guns, or get an anti-bullet shield to place in front of himself.

The Assault heals... and heals. Assault doesn't have much firepower, but his weapons are slightly lighter than others, so i guess he runs faster. But Assault can heal people, as well as revive dead teammates, which means on a noob server, most ppl will spam Assault.

Conquest mode isn't all that different from the previous Battlefields. You go around the map, capturing control points by standing near it, and once captured, provides a spawn point for your team. In fact it's a bit worst since, with the Battle Walkers around, it's near impossible to survive as an infantry. In most conquest maps, if you're an infantry and you see a vehicle other than that little humvee, scam instantly, and revive dead teammates who try to take on that monster. If that monster is still surviving when you're dead, get the Engineer kit and blow it apart. Somehow. But the Commander's orbital strike still is the most efficient in taking out these heavy targets.

Titan mode is the best mode [and only other] mode where Battlefield 2124 shines. You spawn on a Titan, which is a giant floating ship. The Titan has a transport plane and a attack helicopter. You have six launch pods from which to launch yourself off the Titan. By capturing missile silos around the map, the missiles will damage the enemy Titan's shield. Once the shields are down, you can board the Titan to destroy its 4 consoles and a nuclear reactor, destroying the Titan and winning the game. Alternatively, you could just wait for the missiles to destroy the enemy Titan's hull itself.

Titan mode is just great.... The missile silos launch at regular intervals, so you need to wait it out at a silo that you've captured. It wouldn't be much of a use if you captured a silo, then let it be captured by the enemy before it even launches a single missile towards the enemy Titan.

Moreover, once the shields are down, you can choose 1 of 3 options to continue the game. Either protect your own Titan from the enemies who are boarding your Titan, or board the enemy Titan to destroy its consoles, or go to the ground and help capture more silos.

In the Titan, the battle gets more intense. You'll be inside the enemy's spawn point itself: The Titan. Although it'll take a while for them to transverse from their spawn control point over to your boarding area, or inside the Titan inside [30 seconds], it's frightful when you board the Titan yourself without backup. There are many places to hide. Since it's the enemy's Titan, they can hide behind forcefield doors which only they can walk through. Moreover, the corridors to the console are ... well a corridor. It's really intense there, especially if there are a few enemies staking out there with sentry guns, ammo kits, health kits, anti-bullet shields, and frag grenades. Even more moreover, the consoles themselves require either two Demo Packs from the Sniper, 2 Rockets from the Engineer, or just simply continous blasting with your ordinary submachine guns. A Support member is definitely needed here for topping up your ammo.


The kits themselves can be picked up and swapped. If a teammate dies, you can swap your kit to an Assault kit, and if he has unlocked the defibrillator, revive him. Or you could check the kits of the enemies. Sometimes they've unlocked really powerful stuff, and cool, you can swap to that kit and use it. Of course, there's that bit of unfamiliarity with that kit, so you might actually perform worse off. But that kit swapping could be good when you've unlocked those weapons, but are not using that kit.

Eg. I'm an Engineer and Assault user. Both kits are unlocked to their max. But I'm either using the Engineer or the Assault. Sometimes choosing one over the other is a roll of the dice. So I won't mind getting back my other kit by swapping with a dead player's.

Anyway, Battlefield 2142 rocks like crazy. Though I miss Battlefield 2 a bit, and still feel that it is one of the best modern-setting games ever, even though it's kinda old already.

Konjiki no Gash Bell rocks!! Don't say it ain't.