[LoPo]

http://pc.ign.com/articles/632/632446p1.html

NIGHTVISION! APACHE! GRAPPLING HOOK/ZIP LINE! FLASH BANG! TEAR GAS!

IGNPC: So I guess we should just start off with the big one. What is Special Forces?

AJ Marini: Well, what we did was take out experience with Battlefield 2 and set it into a different environment. How do we change the game without changing the game that much. We don't want to change the fundamentals of Conquest but we really wanted it to feel like something different. So we started brainstorming and this idea of Special Operations kept coming up, so we ran with that idea.

The idea of Special Forces is the idea of night vision and all the other neat little things that they can do put into the Battlefield environment. So where Battlefield 2 is a playground for your regular grunt soldier, you put Special Forces in there and they can do all of these wonderful things that have the player feel like a super soldier now.

The battlefield environment is still Battlefield gameplay, but everyone feels a bit more powerful. They have toys and abilities that they wouldn't normally have in the regular Battlefield.


IGNPC: You said there's more gear, so what kind of equipment are we talking about here?

Daivd Yee: The two big areas of equipment are night vision, which transcends to commander mode as well, and then the other section is mobility based features is a zipline, grappling hook.

IGNPC: Does the inclusion of night vision mean the majority of these maps are going to be set at night?

AJ: It's a pretty balanced set-up right now, but obviously, with the night vision it would kind of be a fault if we didn't have the night maps to go with it.

Yee: I think something important to note about the night vision also is that for every tactic in Battlefield 2 there's a counter. The night vision for us is not an all powerful thing. Night vision is useful in dark areas, but we're taking a lot of time to make sure that looking at a bright area is a very disadvantageous thing.

IGNPC: OK, how many new vehicles and such will be included then?

Yee: So the new bread and butter features for the expansion pack are six new armies, ten new vehicles, and twelve new base weapons.