Three ways to ensure your tank game vanishes without trace in Western Europe and the US: Set it during the Yugoslav wars of the early Nineties. Fill it with Russian driveables. Give it a silly title. T-72: Balkans On Fire (later renamed Iron Warriors) sold like stale buns west of Beograd when it launched in 2005. A bit of a shame that, because it’s actually a rather solid armour sim. It’s certainly worth the paltry £1.49 Steam are currently asking.
For the price of a posh loaf of bread or a controlling interest in an Icelandic bank you get three steely steeds – the T-72, the T-55 and the T-34 85 – spacious deformable battlefields, plus decent ballistics, AI, and damage modelling. What you don’t get is 3D interiors, intuitive key assignments, or the chance to crush Zastavas full of ethnic cleansers, but at this price who cares. Sim bargain of the year so far!
Isn’t Forgotten hope the battlefield 1942 realism mod? That was pretty good, I never was able to kill anyone with a rifle but the tanks were very well done. I hated the strange arc you got when you shot a tank cannon in normal battlefield 1942, but it was still a lot of fun :) I LOVED Desert Combat. Shooting down a hind with an M1A1’s main gun because it flew to low in the distance made me feel like rambo lol.
Yeah desert combat was great! Possibly one of the greatest mods of all times considering the impact it carried.
Forgotten Hope 1 was for 1942, and 2 for BF2. 2 is still set in the desert/Mediterranean area durring the early war years 1941/1942. There working on the new version that should be set in Normandy.
Desert Conflict was Desert Combat for BF2. But unfortunately it didnt carry a long life, even though the gameplay wasnt bad and it featured some classic maps from the old 1942 version like lost village.
Project reality is still doing extremely well for BF2. If you love teamwork and dont mind a game stretched out over multiple hours, having multiple roles and positions in a tank and specialized squads then i can recommend it very much. Only got the last version yesterday and it reminded me why its great. It doesnt feel like the rushed BF2 gameplay, but more as something that you would see in a documentary.
Sounds interesting. Gawd I still remember sneaking around the hills around lost village with a barret sniper rifle trying to get some kills :P
In my clan I was the artillery specialist, on El Alemein (spelling is probably bad been a while) I could hit the enemy base with the scud missle launcher within the first few seconds of the round starting and hit any where on the map with the MRLS at the second flag on command , also wasn’t half bad with the apache ^_^ One match 8 vs 8 I believe the first few minutes of the match I killed the entire enemy clan two times in a row with rockets from the apache allowing us to win that round handedly, next round they didn’t group so close together lol.
Aaah yeah the memories. i always was feared in a A-10 or frogfoot, for i knew how to correctly turn into a target so that they had a great lead. Can you imagine 3 years ago BF2 came along? It feels like it was yesterday. Am i sounding old?