For the last 5 or 6 years I have been playing a lot of the Battlefield games starting with Battlefield 1942, then Battlefield Vietnam, and of course, Battlefield 2. I never bothered with 2142 because I am not into the whole future thing, if I want future, I'll play Unreal Tournament 2004 (which I still do). I know a lot of console kids play Call of Duty or whatever but in my opinion Battlefield 2 is way better.
A couple of years ago I started checking out mods for Battlefield 2 and came across Allied Intent Xtended (AIX). This mod turns Battlefield 2 into the best multiplayer first person shooter ever. I am skeptical to see how Battlefield 1943 is in comparison, but as of right now Battlefield 2 with AIX 2.0 is awesome. The cool thing about PC games like Battlefield 2 is when you get a new video card its like you get new games. For some reason I thought you should match the resolution of your monitor so I always ran BF2/AIX at 1152 x 864, just recently I tried jacking it up to 1680 x 1050 and wow! It's like an entire new game, it looks so crisp, and I even felt guilty because it felt like I had an unfair advantage because I could spot bad guys so easily.
Here is a list of a few of the things that make AIX such a good mod:
- Longer run time (all-time run on some servers like DOD)
- Better weapons
- More helicopters and jets that are equipped with more weapons
- A ton of new maps
- Pickup weapons
- Health and Ammo
- A portable Stinger (a bazooka that locks onto choppers and jets(pickup only))
- C4 20 second timebomb
- Grappling hook and zipline
- Lazer mines that sound a siren, shoot a flare, and jets can lock onto
AIX 2.0 mod is free and you can find that at www.aixtended.com
If you make it that far you should also aquire the TNG2 mappack which a lot of AIX servers require. I know you can get it from the ISA clan's site but you have to sign up to access the files.
