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Great Game BUT..........

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: May 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If you are one of the unfortunate few out there that can't get broadband where you live, like me...save your money on this game. It is a GREAT game and I love playing it but when I am at home with my dial-up, I can't stand it much. If you do have Broadband, BUY this game and enjoy it. You will love it. I didn't read many reviews of this game cause I didn't have to but this was to inform you dial-up users. Good Gaming!!

MAD NICE ESpesially if you are russian

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: May 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

DO ANYTHING FLY PLANES RISE TANKS< PLUS GOT A MAD NICE MODE DESERT COMBAT AND ALSO YOU CAN DOWNLOAD ALOT MORE MODS

Good game with some glitches

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: April 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Right to the point, all the missions in the european theater seem to run smoother, than those missions in the pacific theater, for instance Battle for Midway,has very poor frame rate, mouse movement is very choppy. Ea take a look at this problem will you, because a lot of gamers think its their computer, but its not. NEED A PATCH ASAP: disabled military viet nam era vet. Peace: Romeo Henry Faison....a hardcore gamer.

Good and Bad

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 12, 2003
Author: Amazon User

When I can play it, its fun. And 3/4 of the time I cant play it.

This is the only pc game in 6 years that I have bought that has given me this much trouble. Many times when loading a game it crashes to the desktop and the game just disappears without any indication of why it crashed. That becomes annoying very quickly. Now along with that, there are periods where the game goes into super slow loading times where the music goes in and out, in and out and takes about 3 minutes to load a game, if it doesnt crash on me. Another problem I'm having is when I do get into a game, and that game ends and goes to load another map, it freezes and just sits on a black screen.

When I can actually play this game it is quite fun. The graphics are nice, crisp, and run well on my system (I have heard that it takes a fast computer to run bf1942). There are a number of vehicles to choose from such as tanks, jeeps, airplanes and battleships. The vehicles pretty much rule the battlefield and ruin the game for the people that like to play as infantry. I wish this game focused more on the basic infantry than on the tanks and planes.

I cant say that this game is very realistic either. I'm no war expert but I know that when pumping 25 bullets into a human, from 10 feet away, they should die. And no I dont have very bad aim or ping. Other examples are that it takes three or more shots from the rocket launcher infantry to destroy a tank. Also the flak cannons are basically worthless when trying to take down an airplane.

When buying this game I was hoping that it would be simialr to Day of Defeat. Boy was I wrong. It's more like playing Medal of Honor which is not one of my favorite games.

All in all this is a solid game that will give you many hours of enjoyment. I would have rated this game four stars if I had not experienced all of these problems. I just hope that this game works for you.

Lots of large empty spaces

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Overall a game that only comes to life when played with a large number of other players. Otherwise it can be frustrating running around and trying to find something to look at. Graphics are quite good and it ran well on my system P4 with ATI graphics card. I didn't like some of the sound effects, though. I think that action games such as Unreal Tournament and Quake III are more fun.

Well done. Best for multi player.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is fun in one player mode. The graphics are very good, and game patches have fixed some problems with sound quality compared to other games. Where this game really shines though, is in online multi player mode. WWII has never been portrayed in such an open manner. There is access to more items, and to more communication than in any of my other favorites. Drive the tank, fly the plane, command a ship. It's here. Pay close attention to learning the key combinations that allow you to coordinate with others on your side though. If you don't master teamwork in this game, you will spend a lot of time getting killed (kind of like the real war game). I think it is a must have, even if you never give up on Medal of Honor.

Quake again!?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: February 24, 2003
Author: Amazon User

So my friend bought me BF1942 for Christmas which I thought was pretty cool because hey, free game! But anyways I was reading the manual before I played the game and it was sounding really good. The levels are colorfully described and it sounds like a really fun game. However, I was dismally wrong. The single player game for Battlefield 1942 is exactly like the multiplayer, except bad. Even with the patches it's really bad. The gameplay is really jittery and the framerate sucks. Even at the highest level the bots you play against are pretty dull AI-wise. But at least you can adjust how dull they actually are. Whether slightly dull or extremely dull.

Now you may be wondering why I gave this game a 3 star rating if I thought that it was so bad. Well I discovered that if you download and install all the patches then the multiplayer is good and runs as smooth as you would expect from any game. I was able to get myslef hyped up about Battlfield 1942 again through the multiplayer. The game mostly consists of taking victory locations which can then be used as spawn points by your teammates and yourself. There are a variety of vehicles to use in the game. Whether as gunner, driver, or both. These consist of different varieties of tanks for both sides, jeeps, halftracks, planes, and other types of armored explosive shooting vehicles. In island battles you can also put yourself behind the driving and gun controls of a battleship floating off the coast, drive in a Higgins boat full of soldiers, take control of a submarine, oh and taking off in a plane from an aircraft carrier is fun too. Among other things, there are shore battery defilade guns, mounted machine guns, and anti-aircraft guns able to be manned and used.

Some of the tanks have top mounted machine guns which you can control and shoot while someone else drives and fires the tanks. There are also these same mg's on most of the halftracks. The planes come in three different types, regular fighters, heavy fighters with a tail gunner seat, and bombers in a level or two which come with the regular pilot seat as well as side machine guns, tail gunner, and bubble gunner seats. Battlefield 1942 falls short in terms of what types of soldiers you can be. You can be a regular soldier with an assault rifle, a medic with a regular rifle, an engineer with a regular rifle and the ability to plant mines and demo charges and repair things, a bazooka soldier, or a sniper called a "scout" for some reason. it would've been nice to have some different selections in that area.

Planes do take awhile to learn how to fly well and then take longer to learn how to actually be effective with them. You'll see many people just flying the planes around trying to bomb right just because it's fun. Also demo charges and mines are usually completely useless. Especially since mines dissapear after time if nothing drives over them which I find ridiculous. I did manage to find a loophole for single player though. Just create an MP game from the SP menu and play it on coop mode with bots. Voila single player, but with better quality because it's an MP game. Personally, BF1942 felt more like Quake with a World War 2 theme to me. And why EA Games can make multiplayer games so smooth, but single player games so choppy is beyond me.

The best of the best

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: February 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is great! Don't buy this if you have a significant other... they'll get sick of watching you sit at the computer for hours on end. After reading the reviews, I did also have some stability problems when I first played it, but having the most up to date drivers solved those problems. I have this running on both an older AMD 850MHz with Via chipset... and a 2.8GHz P4 with Intel chipset. A good NVIDIA Ti 4600 in the 850Mhz makes it very playable (Make sure to have a large P/S of at least 350W if you do this). Anyhow I hope the Road to Rome exp is just as good or better! :)

BEst Game i have ever played

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: February 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Need i say more

Everything was up to and beyond my expectations, i love the freedom the game offers and the graphics are great as well.

Slowest mouse response ever

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: January 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

While I've played a lot of shooters, this one, even with the fastest adjustments, has the slowest mouse response of any game I've ever tried, and it's infuriating. Spoils the game completely--molasses meets the shooter. The vehicle controls are also remarkably primitive. Save your money for a future more refined version, and buy Return to Castle Wolfenstein in the meantime.

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