Each map depicts a specific real life WW2 battlefield location, and the developers must have seriously done their homework, as the terrain is a very good representation of what the locations would have looked like during the 1940s, with roads, buildings, rivers, bunkers and trees in the actual places of their real life counterparts. The maps themselves - although leaving something to be desired by the modern gamer in terms of graphical quality - are something to marvel at when considering their scope, realism and historical accuracy. These aren't just generic maps thrown together for the purpose of a good gameplay experience. Once into the match, you'll find yourself in either North Africa, Normandy, Greece, Germany, Luxembourg or Belgium during World War 2.

The main interface of the game is roughly the same as the original BF2 design, requiring an EA online account to begin playing on various Forgotten Hope servers, kept running by donations from a generous fan community. It just goes to show what a Dev team can do with total control over a project, outside the constraints and time restrictions of a studio. Forgotten Hope 2 won the ModDB 'Mod of the Year' award in 2010, and I'm honestly convinced that if it was a retail title, and not constructed on a dated graphics/physics engine, it would be a true contender for the title of top World War 2 shooter. Rather than return to the sandy deserts of 2005's modern warfare blockbuster, I've been satisfying my cravings for a decent new World War 2 game with the mod Forgotten Hope 2.įorgotten Hope 2 is a total conversion modification for Battlefield 2 which, as you would expect, puts the focus on the multiplayer and delivers one of the most immersive World War 2 experiences I've ever seen in a game. In terms of detail and scale, it surpasses anything achieved in the genre by any fully-fledged game studio, and to think this was all done by a group of volunteer developers is remarkable. While everyone else is mentally preparing themselves for the release of Battlefield 3, and the inevitable toll it will take on people's social lives as they attempt to unlock every weapon set and achievement under the sun, I've been spending my time with the classic Battlefield 2 on the PC, and enjoying the return of an old friend lost from the series known as 'going prone.'īut this is no vanilla Battlefield 2 I've been playing.

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