I played some Battlefield 2142 multiplayer some more tonight and here's a little rundown of the command system in place. Long story short: being a commander is FUN! At the beginning of the game you get a chance to apply for the position of commander of your team. The computer will decide whether or not you will be accepted as the current commander based on the military rank of all of the people who applied. If you don't get accepted you have a chance to disgrace your whole family tree, call mutiny and let your team vote you into the position.

Now, as commander you get to run around like everyone else, but the real fun begins when you find a hidden spot to lay down and switch to

A friend introduced me to Battlefield 2142 for the PC this weekend. I have to say, I was glad to be able to use the PC for gaming again, and had some interesting finds about returning to the keyboard and mouse. For starters it looks like, for the mouse, my brain has switched preferences from inverted Y 'Look' to standard. While, for controllers, I use inverted. No clue why, I just know that I preferred inverted when I used to play Quake and Unreal. I had forgotten how much I loved the KB/M setup though.

As far as the game goes, I actually liked it quite a bit. It is a slow paced shooter and you can't run around in turbo mode as you can in some other games.