Call of Duty 4 is for sissies

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This is Project Reality for the game Battlefield 2. Its got me obsessed at the moment and makes Call of Duty 4 look like a schoolyard game of capture the flag.

You need a decent PC and a copy of Battlefield 2, then go here and download the mod. Read More for my thoughts on the game.

This is a squad-based game where cooperation within squads and coordination across squads is essential. In fact, you are guaranteed to die quickly and often if you try to run around by yourself.

Everything is able to be driven. Hummers, tanks, helicopters, boats, strike fighters, APC's. Have one squad member pilot a Blackhawk and air-assault into Basrah. It gets better when your heli squad is working with other squads in tanks and on foot for a true combined arms operation.

Insurgency mode tries to capture modern asymmetrical warfare. One team (insurgents) tries to defend a series of hidden weapons caches from the other team (Americans or British). The caches don't reveal themselves on the map until a certain level of intelligence has been obtained. This is done by capturing or killing insurgents.

You don't get to kill 4 people and call in a computer-controlled gunship (COD4). You just call in a gunship whenever you want and someone fly's over to you and delivers good 'ol American justice. Gunships busy somewhere else at the moment? Get on the line with the jet jockeys and they'll be happy to put a 500lb JDAM on the target you're laser-designating. Your team's pilots suck? Construct a bunker and fixed .50 cal emplacements and fight it out until you're relieved.