BF2142 looks fun... And ALOT like C&C...

[Droxor]

I have canceld all my game acct's except PS, and am on the verge of doing that AGAIN. The last 2 times i quit because of Drama, and just getting away from it. . .this time im flat out bored.

[rhonnin]

Didn't last very long in WOW

[BigBossMonkey]

Thats because WoW sucks.........

[roadrunner]

Actually WoW is a very well design game but that is the problem with it. They have convinced millions of people that fun is to farm the same mob over and over for the chance of a .0000000000000000000000001 % drop. Or that doing the same dungeon every week after week is somehow fulfilling. Beautiful game which is pure evil in many ways. This BF installment looks pretty good.

[Backus]

this game looks extremely entertaining, and it looks liek it'll be very able to hold until huxley especially sense huxley has been pushed back to 2007 now. I may also have to bust out my old joystick for this game, http://www.thrustmaster.com/eng/d_prd.php?p=T64&fam=6 . (Oh yeah...)

[Backus]

also here's another video http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 52&pl=true

which I might add is very intense.

[Gunther]

Bf2142 appears to be an easy transition for tE since many of us are experienced with Bf2. How much different could it be? trade in your BDUs for some cool Storm Trooper looking armor and your M4 carbines for Star Wars laser assault rifles. when does this game come out?

[Backus]

Fall of this year. So that'll give us 6 monthes of this until huxley (I am assuming that huxley will once again be pushed back til early spring of 2007)

LOS ANGELES--We got our hands on Battlefield 2142 at E3, with senior producer Marcus Nilsson himself giving us a tour of what's new in the latest game in the incredibly popular Battlefield series. If you haven't heard yet, Battlefield 2142 takes place in the future, and it pits the American-European Alliance against the Pan Asian Coalition for the battle for territory after a new ice age renders most of the planet uninhabitable.

Of course, developer DICE and publisher EA are showing off the new Titan mode, the first major new mode for Battlefield in pretty much ever, as earlier Battlefields featured only the popular conquest mode. Titan mode requires you to destroy the enemy's Titan while defending your own, and the Titan is a flying aircraft carrier of sorts defended by incredibly strong energy shields.

In order to bring down the shields you'll need a total team effort. You can try and whittle the shields down using regular weapons and vehicles, but that will take a long time. The easiest way is to seize missile silos, which are sort of like the flag capture points in other Battlefield games. Seize a silo, and a counter counts down to the time it will launch a Bloc-2 ATM missile at the enemy Titan, inflicting damage on its shields. You now have a tactical decision. Do you defend the silo after you capture it, to make sure the missile launches, or do you try and capture an enemy silo to prevent it from launching its missile at your Titan. Fire enough missiles at a Titan, and its shields will collapse, allowing you to board it by using assault pods to "shoot" infantry up to the Titan.

Once on board the Titan, it's a close-quarters battle to destroy four security consoles scattered throughout the vessel. Do so, and you gain access to the nuclear reactor. You'll again need a team effort to destroy the reactor quickly, but if you do so, you need to race to get off the Titan in time, running and leaping off the Titan and parachuting to Earth. That's important, because even though your team will win if you destroy an enemy Titan, you only get a special pin and other bonuses if you successfully escape the explosion.

Battlefield 2142 itself feels like Battlefield, but with really cool new weapons and vehicles. The hover tank is unlike any other tank in a Battlefield game, because it slides around like it's on ice. It lets you strafe left and right, and that gives you new mobility to try and dodge attacks. The aircraft, we're told, will be easier to fly than counterparts found in existing Battlefield games (flying a helicopter in Battlefield 2 is remarkably as hard as flying one in real life), but to compensate, the aircraft will be nerfed so that they don't dominate the map like they do in Battlefield 2. (Speaking of which, Nilsson says that DICE is currently working to fix that issue in Battlefield 2.)

We got to see a montage of various vehicles, with their names, including the L-5 Riesig, the MK-1 Titan, the Type 21 Nekomata, the T-39 Bogatyr walking tank, and the UD-6 Talon gunship. It's all ironic that none of this stuff exists in the real world, but they use similar naming conventions to real-world military vehicles and equipment.

Yet perhaps the biggest appeal in Battlefield 2142 will be the customization options of your character. Even though the game features only four class types, you can modify your character's weapons and load outs in countless ways. Pack up on lots of weapons and gear and you'll slow down. Go with a lighter load, and you won't have as much firepower, but you'll move faster. You can create a load that's just right for you. And perhaps the coolest thing in terms of persistence is that we learned that if you get a knife kill on someone, you will always be able to commemorate that kill because you will have your victim's "dog tags." You'll have dog tags for every knife kill, with the victim's name on it, so you can really rub it in if you get multiple knife kills on your friend.

Battlefield 2142 looks very cool. It uses a slightly more advanced version of the Battlefield 2 engine, and it looks a bit sharper up close and in person. The famed Battlefield gameplay appears to be just as sharp as ever, and we'll see when the game ships this fall.
-GameSpot

[Valkyrie]

Really think our entire clan has to really consider this game, its gameplay so far seen just really surpasses the interest we had in BF2 this is the Sci-Fi playground, its what we Thrive off of.

[Gunther]

Really think our entire clan has to really consider this game, its gameplay so far seen just really surpasses the interest we had in BF2 this is the Sci-Fi playground, its what we Thrive off of.

Aye aye Commander! We were formed on the sci-fi genre, we will thrive on the sci-fi genre.