You never feel near the action as all the players appear so spread out. This map plays out on such a large scale it’s actually slightly ridiculous. With Altai Range we have a map that could be the brother of Alborz Mountains from BF3. The Armored Kill design mentality doesn’t end there. This map seems to mimic that design choice, causing vehicular combat to be just a little too much of a struggle. Vehicle based maps are fine and can be great but what the Armored Kill DLC for Battlefield 3 showed off, is that unless balanced just right this can get very boring, extremely fast. No matter where you are on this map, if you’re not in a vehicle it’s a bit of a chore. I found myself being constantly killed by vehicles and feeling like the game was telling me to like it or lump it. The middle point is very much infantry focused, yet the rest of the map is designed mainly for vehicles. In juxtaposition to that, Silk Road is an oddly balanced desert map. The fact this is a multiplayer map in one of the most popular FPS franchises on the planet - a genre hardly known for its emotive design - makes this all the more wonderful to experience, while also showcasing a huge leap forward in what can be accomplished with map design. This genuinely threw this map to the top of my favourites to play, just for the feelings it evokes so effortlessly. This manages to change the entire feel of the map, showing off in the greatest possible way DICE’s complete control over map and aesthetic design. The map boasts the slightest ‘levolution’ so far, with the sky becoming overcast, slowly darkening the whole map. Planes fall from the sky, tanks roll over buildings like they’re nothing and helicopters taxi squads from point to point. Never does there appear to be a let up in the action, specifically when you’re working in tandem with your squad - leading to a whole plethora of moments that you can only have in the Battlefield series. With tonnes of air and ground vehicles available, this map feels alive from the second you spawn. This map is huge, yet still only the second largest offered in this DLC. On top of the four new maps, we get five new weapons, ten new assignments, two new vehicles, two new gadgets and a new game mode a substantially larger DLC on the whole than Second Assault and dare I say it, better.ĭragon Pass is a spiritual successor to Dragon Valley from Battlefield 2 and is the first map to evoke the feeling of Vietnam. The other two maps on offer also do a mostly good job mixing infantry and vehicle combat perfectly for some exciting moments and great gameplay. China Rising offers two maps that I would call BF: Vietnam inspired and frankly, I’m in heaven. I said in my review of Air Conflicts: Vietnam that I was a sucker for any game based in that period of time and also stated my love for Battlefield: Vietnam. And if you have trouble installing the Battlefield 2 1.5 patch, please follow the steps provided in this video: "".// Reviews // 24th Dec 2013 - 9 years ago // By James Furlong Battlefield 4: China Rising Review P.S: As far as i know you may crash in SOME maps of the mod, and that is only if you have a low end computer (Even if you're playing at high graphics the texture fix wont help as long as your PC is not a decent gaming machine). And you're done! You can now play SOW2 and any other new mods on Battlefield 2 without any similar crashing issues. To fix this annoying problem, you'll have to uninstall Battlefield 2 then install it again (YOU'LL HAVE TO REBOOT AFTER THE INSTALLATION IS COMPLETE), after that, install your Special Ops Warfare mod, and be sure to patch it and install the texture fix, then the you'll have to install the BF2 1.5 patch. Now if you fix the mouse cursor, you may face the second problem, which is the game crashing or quitting when loading a map, now if this happens without an error then you have the same issue that i had. Now you'll be wondering how i managed to select my account and navigate in the menu to select a map, i did that by simply moving the "menu" folder located in "bf2" in the mods directory of your game to "SOW2". If anyone is having a similar problem, and wants to identify it, then you'll have to see if your first problem with the mod was that the mouse cursor isn't appearing, if it wasn't, then you either have my exact problem or your "menu" folder in the mod directory is deleted. ![]() The only thing causing the game to crash\quit was that patch 1.5 wasn't installed.
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