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Battlefield 2 (Prima Official Game Guide)

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This is what every Battlefield 2 soldier needs to learn all the little intricacies and secrets of playing the game to Win!!! Just a few highlights:
- You learn how the online scoring is done so you can advance in rank.
- You learn the capabilities of each weapon and vehicle.
- Excellent hints for each of the soldier kits.
- Color detailed images of each of the maps.
- A lot of hints for actual online combat tactics.
This is well worth the investment for the serious Battlefield Warrior.

Gives great strategy tips on each map, but needs more info on how to operate the different vehicles. Plus changes have been made since the game's inception through the patches. Scoring, game dynamics and rankings are different now. An updated guide with better vehicle training would be great.

If you have played BF1942 series or BFV you don't need this guide. It doesn't tell you anything about the points needed to reach ranks, or awards, or medals, or ribbons. And it doesn't go into detail how to use the Commander Screen. I would list this guide as purely a beginners guide if you have never played any of the Battlefield games in the past. It does however give you some good beginner advice on strategy for each map and kit.

Hard to find this guide at local stores so I was pleased to find it on Amazon. This guide does a good job of breaking down all aspects of Battlefield 2. Detailed information is provided on almost every inch of the game and it offers some well thought out strategies for success. I have played all the Battlefield games and still found this guide quite helpful. I can easily recommend this to Battlefield newbies and veterans.

Battlefield 2 is one of Prima's best selling games. Knight shows that it is a multiplayer game of sweeping complexity. Highly addictive. But you probably already knew that!

The chances are that if you are reading this, you've already played Battlefield. But you want an edge up on your opponents. Or perhaps you are wondering why they are consistently beating you? So the book can be used as a secret weapon or as an equaliser.

Keep in mind that this is an official text from Prima. In other words, there is nothing here about any unauthorised key sequences or third party plug-ins that actually let you cheat. [Not that you would do that, eh?] Rather, the intent is ultimately to sell more copies of the game. Not of this book. By showing you more sophisticated abilities and strategies inherent in the game. Makes you a better player. By doing so, Prima bets that the extra investment of your time in playing the game decreases the chance that you will go elsewhere.

I don't have anything bad to say about the BF2 guide. It has detailed information about the equipment, personnel and maps of the game. Most of the guide is about the maps, though.

This strategy guide came in handy. It has helped me become a better Battlefield 2 player because it explains everything about the game in so much detail. Its a must have! The booklet that comes with BF2 hardly tells you anything useful so I do recommend picking up this strategy guide.

I never get tired of this game. I have played others but this is still my favorite game of all time. If you have not played it then its time to get it. Not the best graphics but still a heck of a lot of fun to play. A voice over mic is nice too but not necessary. I use a Xfi Fatality sound card. I have used a video card as small as a X-1300 Radeon to play this game.

I'm seeing comments in some of these reviews about the game being released by Prima. That is not true, EA/DICE released the PC version.

Excellent book, by the way, very detailed.

This strategy guide is useless to anyone able to search sites made by Battlefield 2 fans. The statistics such as weapon firing rates are outdated because the many patches that have been made for the game have altered numbers for balance reasons. It doesn't even mention over a half dozen of the game's weapons & several vehicles because it was published before either expansion pack was released. Finally, the advice/tips are no better than the stuff you can read for free from player guides throughout fansites.
It's not that anything in this prima guide is bad...it's just not good enough to be worth money.