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A lot of trouble

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 9
Date: March 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I had a LOT of trouble with this game and I have a pretty hefty gaming PC. It locks up my computer all the time and I cant even play it. I have downloaded the patch and I am still having trouble with it locking up and occasionally the sound will not even play. I have almost [$$$] in the game, the expansion pack, and the prima guide and it is just setting on my desk. I am an avid PC gamer and I have never had so much trouble with a game. I would advise anybody who is thinking about this game to go to the official Battlefield 1942 web site and check out the message board. You will see that i am not the only one with this problem.

First person SHOOTER plus.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: July 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I got this game for my son, but I've grown adicted to it. There are pleny of ad on's available for the game, try desert combat, well worth the trouble.

Get it.

Money down the tubes!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 20
Date: September 14, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Running: P4 @ 2.2 with a Geforce 4 TI4600. 512 RAM

Net connection: AT&T Broadband

I got a copy of BF 1942 thinking that "WOW another FPS from EA...GREAT!!!" After all they published the Medal of Honor hits......boy was I disappointed.

First of all I had to install a patch... on the first day of purchase!

Then I learned that the developers of the Medal of Honor game had nothing to do with this game. The people who developed this game, DICE or Digitial Illusions, has never even programmed a successful game. DICE's only game that resembled a hit was a game called "Codename Eagle", which I and I believe majorities of other gamers have never even heard of.

Connectivity or should I say a lack of, for me, kills this game. The ping was terrible even when I was playing on a local server. "Connection failure" warning appears in game when I'm connected and playing on-line.

I primary buy FPS to enjoy fragging people over the net....but the net stability is so BAD I wish that I had waited for PC Gamer or Computer Gaming Monthly to review this game.....it would have saved me ....

anyone givin this game a less than 5 star reveiw, smokes pot

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 21
Date: April 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

OH MY GOD! SERIOUSLY! YOU PEOPLE GIVING THIS A LESS THAN 5 STAR REVIEW ARE SMOKIN M.J.! THIS GAME GOT THE FRIGGEn GAME OF THE YEAR AT THE CONVENTION! I SWEAR! YOU PEOPLE MAkE ME SICK!

A novelty item

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 12
Date: September 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I just bought BF 1942 after weeks of waiting and searching local stores. I'm VERY disappointed in the [$$$]that I WASTED on this game. Yes, it was very exciting for the first hour and a half, but after that...I've never played a more monotonous game. Basically, the entire goal of the game is to hold your 'outpost' or take the enemy's. Unfortunately, it's impossible to actually hold an outpost after you've taken it because you only have a couple other guys. What ends up happening is you go to defend/take another outpost, but in your absence (because you're the only guy in the area), an enemy guy (ONLY ONE) will 'sneak in' and take it from you. The mission is over when the enemy's "ticket count" reaches zero. The only ways to decrease the enemy's ticket count is by killing an enemy (very hard to do this the required ~100 times to win because there's only one or two enemies in sight at anytime and it takes a few minutes to even SEE another player) or capture all of the outlook posts. It's a very time-consuming and MONOTONOUS game! DO NOT BUY THIS GAME. It's worth playing it on a friend's computer or something, but after an hour or so...you'll have had all that you can take.
I'm very disappointed I wasted the money on this game...potential buyers be wary!

They did a lot of things right...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: April 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game provides the best internet multi-player experience to date. The only reason you wouldn't enjoy this game is if you didn't like shooters. (And even some people I know who don't like shooters liked this game...).

Of course, I have seen some people rating the game low here because of hardware difficulties. Well, they got a point: You need a high-end machine to have fun with this. (Hint: If you do not have a high-end machine, make sure you at least download all the patches!)

What makes this game truely great is the open gameplay and the number of options your have. You can do anything from walking aroudnt the battlefield, to driving a Jeep or tank, fly a plane, man an AA gun, and even operate aircraft carriers and submarines! And it is all easy to pull of!

How about this: Take of with an airplane to torpedo an enemy aircraft carrier. Then, when you run ouf of torpedos, parachute into the water next to the carrier to climb up the safety net and snipe some of the crew. Then, move on to steel one of their aircraft and take off, just to bomb them with your own bombs before returning to your own home base where you switch into a Jeep to make it to the next stationary cannon to fire at an enemy destroyer, just to realize they have spotted you and taken out the whole facility with a precission strike... This describes a scenario I have played through.

This game is fun and personal

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: July 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I love this game and its expansions. The fun is not in capturing the other flag or capturing all the control points, but its in getting there. And its personal cause its really everyone for themselves on the team except when you are bunched togther at a CP deflecting an offensive which has to be a team effort. Other then that you go go go, and try some Rambo style attacks on the enemy. Playing Kamikazee with your Jeep against their tank to slow them. Sniping from a good vantage point especially when you get one guy at his machine gun and his buddy also follows and its one long string of idiots who dont get a clue and try and sus me out before exposting themselves to my crosshairs.
All I need is to get sniped once and I will resurrect as one as well and payback is glorius. It does get personal because sniping is very diffiult due to the distances so you wanna show whose king sniper to the other side.

One drawback and its not the game, its those stupid newbies or stupid oldbies who dont pay attention to whats going on, they never scan the horizon for snipers or approaching vehicles or aircraft. The sit around playing with their weapons completely oblivious to the greater good, bombs near othersy so you catch a hit and lose health, and they do it just for the hell of it, go figure. Usually, TKing be damed I will shoot these SOBS to stop the annoyance. And if anyone on the other team cheats such as using a clip cheat to hide within the scenery itself, inside boulders trees etc if the server or host wont correct the issue then I will by respawing on that persons team and capping them with a message as to why.
I

requirements

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 15
Date: September 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too mcuh requirements...cthe grpahics arent thaaaaat good. I give this a one i hope maybe theyll allow more people to be able to play

Battlefield FLOP!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 16
Date: September 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Bought the game the day it was released with eager anticipation given all the hipe. I'm a loyal fan of Meddle of Honor so I thought I couldn't go wrong given EA was behind the development. Big dissapoinment! Gameplay lagged, game detail looked rushed and unpolished, there was no sense of nostalgia that the Meddle of Honor series engendered and the campaigns were poorley conceived and developed.

My advice: save your money and wait for the Meddle of Honor expansion due out in November. Battlefield 1942 is a big flop!!

About the Good, Bad and Ugly

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: January 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

First of all, this game IS worth it. Yes, you may need to have a pretty decent video card installed or it WILL lag and clip here and there. A GeForce3 is by far the worst card to try and play this game with. No wonder it lagged on your poor excuse of a computer! LOL What a joke! "a GeForce 3" ! 64mb of video RAM is not enough to play this game, Trust me! I have an ATI Radeon 9800 pro and it still lags a bit.

If you are going to buy this game, keep these things in mind: You will need a GOOD video card. Not one that is 4 years old like the GeForce 3! Again, what a joke that someone would give this game a crappy review because they loaded it on their ancient outdated crappy video card and Oh, what a surprise, the game choked.

The next thing to remember is that you will need to have at least Cable or DSL to play online smoothly.

The next thing to know is that you must have at least 512mb or better yet 1gb or RAM to play this game smoothly.

And lastly, bots do NOT snipe you from all the way across the map. That comment was from some baby who can't stand to admit defeat.

Summary,

DO NOT TRY TO PLAY THIS GAME ON A GEFORCE 3 CARD! Actually, don't get this game at all, unless you have 1gb or RAM, a SATA Hard drive@7200RPM, 2ghz cpu, ATI 9800XT or up, or GeForce GT6800 video card. Period. It is unfortunately very resource intensive. Other than that, this game is awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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