Battlefield 2: Modern Combat

Development

Battlefield 2: Modern Combat is two games on one disc. The multiplayer game was made by DICE Stockholm whilst the single player was made by EAUK North West studios and designed at EAUK Chertsey. The game was then combined into the single players front end system. The change over can be seen when going into multiplayer in the form of a black screen with the word LOADING in the top left hand corner as the game changes renderer.

Electronic Arts logo

Battlefield 2: Modern Combat was the first title to use a general EA logo in place of the EA Games label.

Intro

The entire intro for the PS2 and Xbox versions were recorded using only 8 players (Barrie Tingle, Alan Dale, Mati Rehman, Richard Kansley, Barry Wallis, Dominic Pitcher, Colin Pratt, Johan Östman) and was not taken from a multiplayer game as it claims to be.

Due to re-recording of some scenes, it contains a few inconsistent scenes:

• When the MEC Engineer shoots at the DPV there is no vehicle when the rocket hits. This originally started as a sniper shooting the land mine seen in the previous scene. However Sniper shots didn't have the same dramatic impact as a rocket.
• The MEC Engineer on the tower changes to a US Sniper as he jumps off the tower.

Online servers

The Xbox online servers were shut down on 15 April 2010.

The Xbox 360 online servers were shut down on 11 August 2011.

The PlayStation 2 online servers (which were hosted on GameSpy) were scheduled to shut down on 30 June 2014, like for other Electronic Arts titles in the wake of GameSpy's total closure.

Release delay

Although first developed as a multiplayer-only game and slated for a Fall 2004 release, Electronic Arts delayed the game a full year to add a singleplayer mode in response to consumer feedback.

Information also contributed by Sciere.