Battlefield 2

1001 Video Games

Battlefield 2 appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.

Booster packs

The 1.5 patch added the booster packs Euro Force and Armored Fury as free to play content for all players.

Graphics card support

Battlefield 2 is the first game to support Nvidia's 7800GTX and the first to drop support for GeForce 4 Ti cards.

Intro

The entire intro sequence is made up of 9 people (Nathan Clay, Rory Clench, Chris Hallam, Susan Holman, John Hopkin, Chris Lacey, Barrie Tingle, Anthony Zoghob and Johan Östman) being used in different positions and all edited together.

Ladders

The AI will never climb a ladder, instead opting for the option of dropping an artillery strike on the players' positions.

Online servers

The game's 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.

References to the game

Battlefield 2 was parodied in an episode of "Die Redaktion" (The Editorial Team), a monthly comedy video produced by the German gaming magazine GameStar. It was published on the DVD of issue 06/2006.

Awards

• 4Players
  • 2005 – Best Multiplayer Game of the Year
• Computer Games
  • March 2006 - #2 PC Game of the Year in the 2005
• GameSpy
  • 2005 – #6 Game of the Year
  • 2005 – #2 PC Game of the Year
  • 2005 – PC Game of the Year (Readers' Vote)
  • 2005 – Online Multiplayer Game of the Year
  • 2005 – PC Multiplayer Game of the Year
  • 2005 – PC Multiplayer Game of the Year (Readers' Vote)
  • 2011 – #21 Top PC Game of the 2000s
• GameStar (Germany)
  • February 23, 2006 - Best PC Action Game in 2005 (Readers' vote)
• PC Powerplay (Germany)
  • Issue 04/2006 - #2 Action Game in 2005 (Readers' Vote)
  • Issue 02/2006 - Worst Slip-Up Series in 2005 (for the buggy start and bad crisis management)

Information also contributed by Bazajt, PCGamer77 and VVP.