My perspective:

Graphics: Impressive. Great looking new statics, the vehicles look great. They obviously spent considerable time making the game look awesome and they succeeded! For a 2+ year-old engine, the FH2 team managed to breath some fresh air into the BF2 environment. As mentioned numerous times before, the one drawback has to be the closeness in the appearance of the British and German troops. Players new to the mod will be tk'ing quite a bit, and after several hours yesterday I still had the occasional tk (my apologies to my victims).

Maps: I like some better than others. Due to the theme of the mod, mappers are limited as to what they can do, as the North Africa campaign was obviously contested in mostly desert environment. To remain true to history, they obviously wanted to represent historical battles within the game. A lot of the desert maps are larger maps, but not so large as to be "Kashan" large, meaning you either want a ride somewhere or spend the rest of the round walking. My biggest complaint is that they had more AAS2-style maps.

Gameplay: There's no getting around it - it is next to impossible to destroy German tanks as infantry. The AT "kit" is essentially worthless. Sticky-bombs are great, but perhaps some type of vehicle damage system needs to be incorporated in future releases so that they have more of an effect and make the kit a little more useful. Last night I hit a Panzer III with 3 sticky bombs and it still was up and running! The obvious downside to this is that tanks will sit near spawn points and rape with abandon. I experienced this a great deal yesterday - tanks sitting near a flag but not capping with the sole intent of racking up the kills. Not having a medic kit is a problem. I understand that there weren't shock paddles in WWII, but there were still field medics. Either add a medic kit (limited), or give everyone 2 field dressings. The FH2 team went for realism on a lot of different levels, but I think that has caused a couple of weaknesses in gameplay that will hopefully be addressed through feedback from the community.

[EDIT] One thing I just remembered: If we have to go prone to fire some weapons, put down mines, etc., then please don't show us "hit" indicators on the cross-hairs! The point is you can't take weapon usage to the utmost of realism and then give us a nice "X" on the crosshairs to indicate a hit.[/EDIT]

I do find the mod to have a lot of potential, especially here at TG. Due to the one-shot kill of most weapons and the lack of a medic, it definitely seems suited for tactical gameplay. We'll have to find a balance with rules that are enforceable (don't know how to handle the tank spawn-raping problem), but it could work and would provide a nice alternative to PoE2 and PR.

For a first release, I think it is excellent technically, but I'm concerned about the feasibility of the mod making it here at TG.

7.5/10