The later tactic is highly reminiscent of some of the best bits of the interior action in PlanetSide, moving between cover points trying to take out control panels. Once the enemy shield is down, you can either maintain the barrage or - for a quick kill - actually board the aerial leviathan and fight your way to its reactor.
In this mode, you battle to control missile-launch positions, which fire projectiles at the enemy every so often for as long as you hold them. There's also a new mode centred on destroying the opposing team's Titan. The conquest game (conquer areas and hold them) remains from BF2. Yes, there are transports and gunships, but they don't appear to dominate anywhere near as much.
In terms of what actually matters, and despite the enormous floating Titans, the importance of air power has been downplayed since last time out. In play though, you forgive it, if only because all the vehicles control in as lovely a fashion as ever. You can't quite put the two together, never mind the assortment of robot-walkers (ED-209's generally lovely big brother), little buggies and hover-tanks. On the other, a lot of very normal-looking projectile weapons. On the one hand we have ultra-science like the Titans, floating fortresses that hover over the battlefields, which may as well be moonlighting in-between Star Trek shoots. The idea that this is actually over a hundred years in the future never really comes across.
Here, it's just a mass of semi-science-fiction elements joined together. Multiplayer games like Halo 2 - founded on a coherent single-player experience - have a sense of world. Its generic setting is probably one of its weaknesses. The phrase "glorified mod" has been uttered in certain cynical quarters. Battlefield 2142 is a game from the future, although perhaps not in the way you imagine.īuilt around the trusty chassis of Battlefield 2, its relationship with that game is similar to the one Battlefield: Vietnam shared with Battlefield 1942 - it puts a different slant on the action and so plays quite differently, even though it's fundamentally cut from the same cloth.
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