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Battlefield 2

Official servers closed 2014. Open-source rebuild coming

DICE's 2005 squad-based shooter that set the template for modern Battlefield: 64-player maps, squads, a commander role, jets, choppers and armour, and a modding scene that ran for years (Project Reality started here). EA shut the official servers down with GameSpy in 2014; fan-run BF2Hub has kept it online since, and an unofficial open-source rebuild of the game's code is on the way.

Developer DICE

Release June 2005

Platforms PC

Genre FPS

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Community 12 Oct 2026

Battlefield 2 Is Being Rebuilt as Open Source, and Multiplayer Already Works

A developer called LifeCoder has spent about eight years reverse-engineering Battlefield 2 into a full open-source rebuild. The server is done, the cl...