Yes, EA and Dice are at it again with the newest installment of the Battlefield franchise. Boasting that ever familiar 64-player, arcade styled, jump-into-any-vehicle-at-any-time, team killing, explosion filled, sniper-whoring, and spawn-camping fest that we lovingly call the "Battlefield Multiplayer Experience," and oh how we love it so.

This game will be familiar to anyone who has played Battlefield 2, so familiar in fact that Battlefield 2142 almost seems like a mod, or a flimsy upgrade with higher system requirements (and this game is quite demanding). It has the same squad-system, commander system, and ranking system.

The story is pretty basic, it's set in the 22nd Century, after a new ice age in which the ice from the North Pole spreads and pretty much destroys hundreds of countries including North America. Two factions, the European Union and the Pan Asian Coalition, are fighting an ongoing World War IV.

There are some improvements over the previous installment though, for one the aircraft are so easy to pilot that it doesn't make you wish you shelled out the extra cash for that fancy new joystick. The kits which are now narrowed down to four: Recon, Engineer, Assault, and Support; the kits are combinations of the classes of yesteryear (e.g. Assault is a combination of Assault and Medic) and through unlocks which is in a tech-tree system you can customize your classes any way you want, EA quotes "more than 1500 combos."

The biggest draw is the totally new content for this game, the main one being the all-new "Titan" mode which has a slightly lowered player limit from Conquest mode at 48-players. In which the goal is to destroy the other team's Titan-Ship by controlling automated missile silos around the map to destroy the shield then assaulting the hull or even entering the ship to destroy the reactor core.

Other new additions to the game are new kinds, and large upgrades of the vehicles - the Battle Tank, which now hovers but is just the same as the antiques from over 100-years ago, the APC which has a nifty James Bond escape pod system for the passengers, able to send the player flying hundreds of feet into the air and then can be piloted as it falls; the Fast Attack Vehicle which is just the same as the old jeeps and humvees from the past with a juiced-up mounted machine gun; the Armored Air Transport which also acts as a mobile spawn point; a Gunship, which is more-or-less a replacement for the attack-helicopter; and the real attention grabber which is a bipedal-mech called a Walker that can fire guided rockets or machine guns.