Why do I love Battlefield 2 so much?

I love the realistic Dolphins.

I'm still playing the game. Have been off and on since it's released back in June 2005.  I spent several years post release beta testing various mods and maps (mainly for the Mercenaries (Hayabusa), Marines (MadOsga)  and MCC (several  modders) mods.  I'm about to help beta testing the latest Battlefield 2 mod Battlefield 1944 (Anthony, the guy responsible  released Battlefield 1943 last year (Sept 20) that is once I get it working.  

I consider Battlefield 2 as well as it's predecessors Battlefield Vietnam and 1942  some of the best FPS games ever released.  I  remember getting a demo of BF1942 and was  blown away when I jumped into the Tobruk map  and was able to  jump into tanks, then  bought the game the following day and played all of the maps Battle of Britain, Gazala, and Midway. Amazing game.  Vietnam was an improvement on the game, tough   there was no  offshore shelling from the   battleships, but you got to  use the PBR (river boats), then Battlefield 2 was released with a new game engine, an amazing commander position where you could give orders to the   squads that joined you in multiplayer etc, and more importantly, the modding community.  One of the first  modded maps (before they released the Navmeshing tools) was by a mapper/modder called Hayabusa, who  reskinned  Strike at Karkand and  created a whole new map using the original navmesh and called it Karkand Rail Yard.  He did the same with several o the others before the Navmesh tool was released.    

This game deserves to be added back on Origin and  should have  server support from EA  games.  There are  thousands of   fans of this game who would dearly love to get back to the original game as well as an active  modding community, that haven't stopped since post release 16 years ago.  That says a lot about this game.

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@lzilchetl wrote:
@donthurtm3

Commander mode....as long as you could find a place to hide

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I loved trying to scan the other enemy's Commander when I played Commander, just to try and hunt them down. Once I found out where they were I'd go on a full blown Special Forces mission out their way to knife them. 

Good times. 

Hi Whiterabbit, Happy New Year!! do you remember me haha? HomeGrown. I was doing a search for my maps I created to reminisce about the good old days of BF2 and came across this post and could not believe I saw a message from you. Have you heard from anyone from the past? Hayabusa, Lt Vendetta, G-Fung, BOBO Badd etc?

This thread hasn't been active for several years so I'm going to lock it.