I'm looking for a new game.

I'd like a game that is heavily focused on team play, and is VOIP enabled. Really the only game I can think of is Battlefield 2. You're probably thinking of Counterstrike: Source, but I'm not really a fan of it as I spend too much time dead - dying at the start of a match means that I spend most of my time spectating and watching other people play.

Battlefield 2 was good in that it was squad based and in order to succeed you really needed to stick with your squad, and I think it is the best game so far that has been able to achieve this type of gameplay.

Is there any other game like Battlefield 2 but without the million and one bugs that unfortunately come as part of the package? I want to exercise this overly expensive headset I bought many years ago (specifically for BF2, actually)

TF2?

I would say TF2 too. You don't spend too much time dead, and with a good team, voice comms are quite common. That and on a good public server with alltalk on, voice comms can be good for general chatting (can be quite a good addition to regular play).

If you get into TF2, we use voice communication in wars, and it helps greatly tactically.

i would say css, bt u gotta stick with it til u get good

The problem is it just doesn't suit some people. Like myself, I tend to like running to action, and you just end up dead doing that in css, meaning you don't get to do anything. TF2 is far better for that.

OK, let me refine it by saying it needs to be squad-based.

Squad based? There's not many of those around, I think BF is one of the only good ones, CoD4 MIGHT be, but I don't know.

Why squad based?

cos he like wearing his night vision kit and pretending to be real life commando

try COD4, its pretty good and customizeable too if ur into that kinda stuff

My option would be Battlefields. 2/2142 or the new one which is coming out. Bf3 i believe. Many people dislike the Battlefields.. but dont get me wrong they are Awsum when it comes down to squad game play. Very Tactical.

Call of Duty. If you get this for the Ps3 in the near future. il be able to play wit ya =]

Squad based= 2 LARGE teams. 20 one Red team 20 on Blue team
Alpha squad. Bravo. Charlie. Delta so on. so u'l have 4 different squads to carry out either 4 different objectives. When this comes down to War... Its second to non to have squads. Very organized. Apart from in BF. U tend to need a commander. Not many people enjoy doing this becuze all you basically do. Is Send out people to destroy/capture things and ur not allowed to join the action. Although i dont mind doing it.

Im still in York. Back at 5 ish =]

Eek. FPS games are awful on consoles but I was considering COD4 on the PC.

COD4 is a gg (game of the year tho that means nothing!!!)

helly, im waiting with u got no1 to carry out my tactics in game

I know what squad based is (played BF2 a bit), but I don't see why it has to be squad based. To see much advantage from squad based shooters, you need to be coordinated, and that doesn't happen much on public servers, so a general full team game is better, as you get a lot of people, and a few who will cooperate.

It has to be squad based because that is what I am asking for - teams are usually too large (think 32 players per team) for constant VOIP'ing, whereas squads (5 or 6 players per squad) is optimal. The VOIP squads I have been in on BF2 have all been really good at working together.

Heh, I obviously got bad servers when I played.

I'd guess CoD4 is your only other option, though I still think you should play TF2 more, lol.

Oh I wish I could, but I can only play it when I'm over at my girlfriend's at the moment... I haven't got a PC suitable for playing TF2. Source games seem to lock up on the PC I built for the family back at home - my brother has loaded it with spyware. I refuse to reload it again, for what... the millionth time?

Oh, is it only Source games? I thought it was all games.

It is all games really, but especially TF2. CS:S actually seems to work OK for a while, but TF2 glitches out completely.

Hmm, do you have any other recent games to try? TF2 is more demanding than CSS, so that could be part of it.

Crysis works on it actually... yeah it's awfully slow but it actually seems to run OK!

Hmm, very odd, I take it you've done virus scans etc?

Yeah, there are no viruses detected, but every time I do a spyware scan, I get a lot of items. Not just cookies, actually bad stuff.

I just can't be bothered to reload it again. I want them to learn their lesson!

I've put Linux on that system before as the primary OS and was forced by everybody to go back because they couldn't play any of their games on there, and custom emoticons didn't work correctly in Pidgin.

Anybody had any experience with this very expensive title?

http://www.steampowered.com/v/index.php ... 9460&cc=GB

no but 72/100 on metacritic might suggests its not worth that much...

Apparently there's some revolutionary patch that people playing this game have been waiting for for bloody ages. It's the v1.1.0 patch and apparently has loads of bug fixes and improvements to the gameplay.

It sounds like Battlefield 2.

From what I have gathered so far - it is in the near future where robots play an important part in battles - remote control tanks, drones etc.

There are teams and squads, not sure about commanders. The VOIP is squad-based.

The environments are destructible.

There are either smaller infantry maps, or larger vehicle maps, but not small vehicle based maps or larger infantry maps unlike Battlefield where you can tweak any map to have no vehicles if you want to (server side).

It looks pretty good. The graphics look a million times better than the Battlefield 2 / 2142 games and it actually makes use of all that high end hardware.

But then a lot of people are saying that they can't even start the game up at all, and there are some gameplay tweaks that are more than required (like moving when prone - apparently you hover instead of crawl...) ...

Nicholai has it for the 360, I think, and seemed to like it a fair bit. It is a port from console, however (I think).