Black Sand Studios (BSS) is a community of mod teams and beta testers founded in 2006 that works together on modifications for Battlefield 2 and Crysis. It aims to share knowledge, content, and ideas to help associated mods gain popularity and quality. Project Reality is a free mod that transforms Battlefield 2 into a highly realistic combat simulation environment, featuring large maps, realistic weapons and vehicles, and an emphasis on teamwork. It won several Mod of the Year awards and has a large active player base years after its release. ARMA 2 is a military simulation game set in a fictional post-Soviet country ravaged by civil war, featuring a branching single-player campaign and a range of multiplayer modes in a detailed game world.

1. Black Sand Studios
Founded on the german Games Convention in 2006, the Black Sand Studios (BSS) are a growing
community consisting of multiple Mod team developers and beta testers for modifications based on
EA’s Battlefield 2 and Crysis. The group has been formed out of existing mod teams to gather all the
best knowledge in one area to help each other out and share things mods need, such as in-game
content, knowledge and ideas. Until now, we are the biggest project of this kind and the encouraged
work of our developers has helped all associated mods to gain popularity, players and quality.
http://black-sand-studio.com/about/
Project Reality
Project Reality: Battlefield 2 is a free-to-download single and multiplayer game modification for the
Battlefield 2 (BF2) retail Microsoft Windows PC game. Project Reality installs alongside your existing
Battlefield 2 game installation, allowing both the original game and Project Reality to be played
separately without conflict.
Project Reality reworks Battlefield 2, developed by Digital Illusions of Sweden (DICE), to create the
most realistic and demanding virtual combat environment for PC gamers possible. This process has
included everything from making dramatic improvements to Battlefield 2's already esteemed visual
and sound effects to perfecting a true-to-life ballistics system that immerses the player in the
battlefield like no other shooter can. Project Reality also drastically ups the scale of the original
Battlefield 2 by featuring vast and exceptionally detailed battlegrounds as large as 64 square
kilometers that take the player everywhere from the fjords of Norway to the narrow desert
alleyways of Iraq to fight in
massive team-versus-team battles
with as many as 128 players.
All of this is supplemented by
strikingly realistic portrayals of the
armed forces of the United
Kingdom, United States, Germany,
Russia, Israel, China, and Canada,
as well as numerous insurgent and
irregular forces taken straight from
today's headlines, giving Project
Reality one of the most
comprehensive and detailed
armouries ever seen in a video
game - spanning everything from
old but powerful Lee-Enfield rifles
to cutting-edge F/A-18F
SuperHornet fighter jets.

2. Along with this, Project Reality contains some of the deepest gameplay seen in video games today
and is designed to promote both technical realism and teamwork without sacrificing accessibility in
doing so. The result is a virtual battlefield that continually proves itself to be both enjoyable and
intense to all manner of players, whether they be military enthusiasts out for a pitch-perfect
simulation of a combat helicopter or casual gamers looking to experience an intense and challenging
firefight with friends where teamwork is just as important as a quick trigger-finger.
Overcoming fierce competition from over one hundred other mods, Project Reality won
ModDB.com's definitive Mod Of The Year award in 2008 having come in second place in both 2006
and 2007. Project Reality is also one of only 21 mods inducted into ModDB's prestigious Hall Of
Fame. Project Reality continues to boast a large player population seven years after its initial release,
a testament to its continued development support, lasting appeal, and widespread popularity.
The Project Reality development team comprises of a group of dedicated and skilled modders, many
of whom have backgrounds in armed services, whose ultimate goal continues to be the release of a
Project Reality: Battlefield 2 version 1.0, a stable and comprehensive build that will be a marked
step-up from the mod's humble beginnings as little more than a proof-of-concept test of just how far
Battlefield 2 could be taken. The mod is now in its eighteenth incarnation, Project Reality version
0.973, and work continues towards the goal of a version 1.0 release as diligently as ever, with
additions and improvements to the game being made on a regular basis to maintain its standing as
one of the most consistently realistic and profoundly enjoyable PC games on the market today.
http://www.realitymod.com/about
Similar games
In 2009 the fictional post-soviet country of Chernarus is ravaged by civil war. For two crippling years,
conflict has raged...
Players explore this volatile world with Force Recon Razor Team, part of a US Marine Corps
Expeditionary Unit. The 27th MEU are deployed to Northern Chernarus on a peacekeeping mission
with a mandate to prevent further civilian casualties and promote political stability.
ARMA 2 is based on the latest generation technology. It offers a uniquely vast game world, authentic
and extremely detailed modern units, weapons, vehicles and environments. The branching, player-
driven campaign can be played solo, or cooperatively and is accompanied by a huge range of single
and multiplayer game modes.
http://www.arma2.com/arma-2/arma-2-overview.html