The secret game modes YOU invented

Stunting

Make fun not war is the message here. Battlefield 2's huge environments and varied aircraft provided all the fun any gamer could ever need, with hundreds of players downing weapons and turning to the more pacifist appeal of stunting. Top Gun's Maverick has nothing onsome of these pilots, with anything less than a vertical takeoff followed by loop-the-loop under a low hanging piece of scenery earning comments along the lines of "Noob! U SUck!!!".

But far more impressive arethe multi-vehicle stunts. We've seen peoplebail out of helicoptersthen re-take the sticks and avoid a crash. Or two-seater planes doing loop-the-loops, withone pilot ejecting at the apex, plummeting to earth and then hoisting themselves back into the cockpit as the jet passes by underneath. Then there's theTNT-fuelled jumps, where primed charges are set off in order as a vehicle accelerates uphill, thrusting the tank, jeep or whatever intoa mammoth leap across the map.

Ben Richardson is a former Staff Writer for Official PlayStation 2 magazine and a former Content Editor of GamesRadar+. In the years since Ben left GR, he has worked as a columnist, communications officer, charity coach, and podcast host – but we still look back to his news stories from time to time, they are a window into a different era of video games.