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World War 2...need I say more?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 39 / 44
Date: July 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The place...Europe and the Pacific...the backdrop...the world at war! In Battlefield 1942 the action of the Second World War comes to life. Take command of an infantry soldier and from their, build your own image of war! Jump into the seat of a Sherman, grab a jeep, hop into the cockpit of a Me-109, sail a battleship, or just remain as a soldier on foot wreaking havoc on the enemy! This game lets you do it all, the game play system makes even the most computer inept people masters at the game, no realism to deal with, jump out of your plane and parachute to the ground, commandeer an enemy tank and roll down the road plastering anything you see! Once your number is up...do it again!

After the debacle that was World War Two Online, many of the WW2 gamers fell away from the respected titles that followed, and Battlefield 1942 offers the same that WW2OL offered, but this time it doesn't intend on making the same mistake! There will be no pay-to-play requirement (no need for internet at all with the bot program!) The game gives a reliable system that will allow the player to achieve what they really play these games for in the first place...to have fun!

The game will get people back into World War 2 and will have them begging for more! Though the game is labeled "1942" it takes place at any given time during the war, with technology that would have existed not until 1944, but there is no need to look down on the game for such a small oversight! The battles that you fight in will be ones that any WW2 aficionado will recall with little trouble, Tobruk, Stalingrad, Normandy, Market Garden, Midway, Guam, and fictional Pacific and European battlefields to boot! The game also sports a single player campaign as a sort of introduction to how it works as well as recognizing the fine AI the game employs.

There is no ten minute walks to get in the fight, no time consuming loads after you die, no technical capture points systems, or realistic vehicle specifications. You play the game like any game, point and click, watch and enjoy! With the World War 2 backdrop, this game will reintroduce the word "war" to the gamers vocabulary with whole new meanings...I hope you will enjoy this game as much as I will!

THIS GAME ROCKS!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 12
Date: August 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

OK I DLed the demo and the Wake Island patch, which added Wake Island map, airplanes, jeeps, ships, etc. IT OWNS! I love being a japanese zero and dive bombing the amerikansi. this game is so beautiful and not laggy. its funner then pretty much everything ive ever played. The game is arcadey, yet realistic,but its not a sim by a long shot. That is great, becuase it isnt tedious like Op Flash Point or WW2 Online,b ut its fun like MOHAA, DOD and Tribes 2. This is honestly the best game ive played in years. I definetly will buy this, and so should you...

[great] war game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: August 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is the most amazing and realistic war games I've ever played. The demo is a work of art. Fly planes, drive boats (including Aircraft Carriers and battleships), drive tanks, jeeps, and all kinds of vehicles. Instead of just going by plane or ground, you can do multiple things. I would say this game is a combination of Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (foot battles) Command and Conquer Renegade (vechicles) and Crimson Skies (similar air battles). I highly recommend this game when it comes out.

Updated Review of Retail Version

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: August 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

My earlier review discussed only the multi-player demo, which is still available from the Electronic Arts Battlefield 1942 website. This is an update which reflects one week of online gaming with the full version.

This is the game WW2 shooter fans have been waiting for. Not only can you pilot every single vehicle in the game (aerial, naval and mechanized), but you can also choose the style of play you prefer based on the map you choose to play in a given session. Want in your face action without those annoyingly accurate pilots (aka - me)? Fire up the Stalingrad or the Battle of the Bulge maps, no planes on those. Sick of the infantry combat grind and looking for a change of pace? Play the Midway map, where ship to ship combat rules the day. Want everything? Play Bocage, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, etc... . I think you get the idea. All in all there are 16 beautiful maps which fall into the above categories, which gives this game a replay value that is beyond measure. And oh yeah, it's pretty freakin' fun too!

To the reviewers who say this game is choppy/laggy, poorly executed, has mediocre graphics I sympathize with you. But I will say it is probably time for you to update your PC if you choose to purchase games of this caliber. Admittedly, I am running this on a high-end system (Pentium 4 2.0, Geforce 4 TI 4600) with a cable modem, so I have absolutely none of those problems and have to say that with the proper system this game is the most visually impressive WW2 multi-player shooter I have ever seen (yes, it even beats MOHAA and Wolfenstein). The view distances, the map sizes, and visual details of the building exteriors and interiors (such as the church in the Battle of the Bulge level, incredible) are amazing.

Bottom line, the best online first person shooter available.

Great game, but the platform spec is wrong

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 20 / 26
Date: August 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is possibly a Counter Strike hier. It has all the potential, only the future will tell. Anyway it rocks. I've been playing the beta, singleplayer demo and multiplayer demo and they where all great :-)

But the platform specs are wrong, it should be:
Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows XP.
Windows 95 and Windows NT are not supported.

AWSOME...no other word describes!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 15
Date: August 22, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Absolutely the best. Great game play. Great graphics. More fun than you can believe. Got to have this game.

AMAZING

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 19 / 23
Date: August 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

That word is all I need to describe this game. The sheer beauty and the ability to do WHATEVER you want is incredible. I'll give you a brief sample of what I did in just ONE round.

1) I spawned as an engineer, and immediatley jumped into a Mustang and began to dive bomb the Jap aircraft carrier. Eventually, a Jap fighter got into a dogfight with me. We were flying right at each other and i'm thinking "OMG we're goign to crash!!!" and at the last second we both tilted to the right and flew RIGHT past each other. If you remember the "chicken" scene from Pearl Harbor it was EXACTLY like that. That goes down as the coolest thing I've ever done in a video game, period.

2) A guy in a battleship was doing very well with his point-defenses and kept shooting me down. So when I respawned I hopped in a jeep, drove to a coastal battery, and blew his precious battleship to bits :).

3) On my way back, a few of my men were tied down by a Jap tank, so being an engineer, I snuck up to the tank, placed a landmine, and blew it to hell.

4) I then took a sherman tank, and together with my fellow gunner, we proceeded to wreak havoc on Japanese ground troops, fun fun!

5) Using the Mustang, I flew over the Jap aircraft carrier, jumped out, parachuted on to it, ran up to the control room, and ran the thing aground, making it easy for my teammates to take out Japs respawning.

that's just a BIT of what i did (i don't have enough room for everythign) so do yourself a favor and DL the demo!!! (I think I won't be playing CS for quite a while now!)

The next big step in multiplayer gaming.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: August 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

The multiplayer demo of this game, which just has 1 map, 2 sides, and not all of the vehicles from each of those sides, has already proved to be extremely addicting and fun to play. There's just so much you can do and so many possibilities, since you can jump into and out of any vehicle instantly and play as one of 5 infantry classes. Even your infantry class selection is flexible, because you can quickly drop your current kit and pick up a dead infantry's kit from the ground, effectively changing your infantry class on the fly. Also, the weapons and vehicles are all very well balanced. For example: the rocket that the bazooka/anti-tank infantry class fires doesn't do much damage to infantry, unless if it's a direct hit. This makes players have to choose the best kit for what they want to do, and ,unlike Quake and other action games, rocket launchers wont dominate all aspects of combat. They are, however, good at what they're meant to do: destroy tanks, with their shaped-charge explosives. Just the way everything fits together is so beautiful, and there's always a counter for every weapon and vehicle. The gameplay is so open ended that you can get pretty creative. I've done things throwing all my explosive packs into a japanese jeep (as an engineer), getting my detonator ready, driving to an enemy base or battle, jumping out of my jeep and letting it roll into the middle of enemies, and then blowing it up to get a few kills (especially when they get inside to drive it while my explosives are still in it, hehe) and other crazy things. Also, the demo has already become the 2nd most played game on GameSpy, beating all others except Half-Life (which has a ton of mods since it's been out so long). The system requirements may be a little steeper than some other games, but it is well worth it, and the game runs beautifully. (I can run the demo, all graphics options maxed at 1024x768 32bit, on my athlon 1.4 ghz 512mb ram GeForce4 ti4200 128mb at a smooth and high framerate) The models are very well detailed, you can see the eyes on the infantry moving and blinking, and their mouthes opening and closing. The level of detail system allows this by scaling down the polygon counts and stuff as vehicles and infantry get further away from you, and increasing details as things get closer to you, so there's no wasted visual performance. This game is like many games in one, and has something for everyone that likes action or war games. My favorite genres are action games and flight sims, and the way this game mixes it all together, in an accessible, balanced, and action packed sort of way, is perfect.

A good premise, bad execution

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 20
Date: August 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I will only give you the negative comments in this review. In Multiplayer, whether you join an FF server, you will be surrounded by people who have no clue how to do anything and of course the few TK'ers that ruin the fun. Lag is horrible, even with a ping of 35ms you would warp around frequently, and once you climb down a ladder on a moving ship you have a 1 out of 5 chance of warping out of the ship in to the ocean. Lag is horrible, I must stress this. Also, the weapons are uneven among different classes, and the poor accuracy combined with lag causes people to run around in circles shooting and reloading most of the time.

This could all be fixed by some updates, but as of now those are the main problems in multi-player.

Nothing short of amazing

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Battlefield 1942 is absolutely incredible. The graphics are gorgeous, the gameplay is great, the sound is amazing. This game also has a free-rooming type of feel to it in its multiplay. there are over 30 different machines to command, pilot, and conquer. There are several different aircrafts and tanks and ships for players to use based on a well rounded assortment of WWII-based maps. I'm buying this game the day it comes out. I suggest you do the same.

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