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Dissapointing

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: September 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Battlefield 1942 was a great game, you could hop into vehicles like tanks,planes,and boats. It also supported 64 players and it was awesome how you could play on a team with 32 other players.

All that is back in this game...BUT THEY MESSED IT UP!!!!
First of all the level design gives the Americans 2x the vehicles of the NVA, and they're guns are stronger. Second of all you can go rambo and run along by your self and kill everyone so team play is never used. And last of all the vehicles aren't fun to drive anymore because you just go off a cliff or smack into a tree every 5 seconds. DON'T BUY THIS GAME BUY BATTLEFIELD 1942 INSTEAD!

Game built for Power machines

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: March 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Pentium III 1GHZ
384 Ram
Windows XP PRO
Nvidia GEFORCE 4ti 4200 64 MB AGP
Soundblaster Live

Well I think this is a 4 star game with a power computer. But with my current box it is a 3 star game and online play with my current box is a 2 star game.

Why?

The game engine is not streamlined for backwards computers. It is built for new tech and future tech. They knew this with 1942, which is why the maps are small and low on foliage. I love 1942. The feel and gameplay were second to none. 1942 is why I bought this game.

Am I satisfied with vietnam? No. It requires a better computer than what I have. I am running bare minimum to operate the game and it runs like it. The worst vehicle to operate is the tanks. The movement of these vehicles while driving them is choppy and sometimes dont move at all. My computer has more problems running them than the choppers.

I will have to upgrade.

Is the game fun? Yes, it can be once I upgrade. It has all the makings of a great sequel. My biggest complaint other than my own computer, is that the maps are LARGE! Sometimes you find yourself moving all over with nothing happening.

Overall, my opinion is that my computer SUCKS. The game is good. 1942 was better for genuine feeling and fun.

It sucks and here is why.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: May 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

After reading all of the bad reviews about this game, I decided to write my own. After buying this game, I played it only a few minutes and went back to origional 1942. The reason why, it was very laggey on my system. I just thought that I did not have enough horsepower. XP 2800 with 512 meg DDR PCI 3200 and nVidia 5200. this setup should be great if you take a look at the requirements on the box. Got great frame rates in 1942. Sometimes as high as 100 but averaged around 30.

Since most of you are probably not computer programmers, I am going to take a stab at what I believe is causing the lag problem. In a nutshell, contacting the server too much. Based on what I have experienced, I believe that 1942 and Vietnam contact the game server and ask permision for you to do anything. For example, change weapons. You press the "3" key to change to machine gun. that generates a server request, "Can i have a machine gun?" you now wait till the server gets back to you as to whether or not you can have a machine gun. since this happens so quickly and since most of you are not programmers you do not notice it. this asking permission to do anything would not be such a big problem except for that i think the hit points are set up to favor the allies. for example, you and i and in berlin 1942, i have the DP and you the Stug 44. Let's say, it is set up that the DP kills with 2 bullets and the Stug 4. We both start firing at the same time. remember in order to do that, i think we have to get permission to do so. now, factor in both lag and the hit point advantage i have. you died first. the problem is, that most of you i believe blamed your death on lag (I actually do read what everyone is writing in the chat window) even though we both started firing at the same time. so what EA did in vietnam is increase the amount of permissions needed to do anything.

I will now explain how that caused the choppyness of the game as a whole. In evey game code, there is something called the game loop. it goes someting like this: 1)get from the network, 2)move player based on inputs (mouse, keyboard, etc), 3)perform calculations, 4)draw to the screen, 5)send to the network. that is a good approximation of what it takes to draw one frame. now, let's say, when compared to 1942. vietnam asks twice as much permission. this means that the program spends twice as much time in steps 1 and 5. now, the more time you spend in steps 1 and 5 means less time on step 4 on a per second bases! that is why i believe that vietnam is choppy.

my moral: we need to get EA to publish the hit points per weapon and have the program stop asking permission so much. Hey EA, how many bullets from a DP does it take to kill a person? From a STug 44? how many shots to kill T-34/85? a Panzer IV? i think EA favored the allies in that manner.

your homeowork: play berlin and watch everyone. i have noticed it routinely takes 2 germans to take down 1 russian. I won't even go into the tanks. that is obvious.

Very good game.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 22
Date: February 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have bought Battlefield 1942, which is probably the best pc game out there. There is no single player (or there is, but it's basicly what you do online). This is just a hardcore awesome online shooting game, where you don't just use your guns. But you can take airplanes, ships ect. After Bf:1942, I highly recommend this product because it will probably be as good, maybe twice as good as the older one.

best game right here

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 8
Date: March 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

this game is going to be better than all previous BF1942 games and mods. I recently got the eve of destruction bf1942 mod which is a vietnam mod and it is VERY good so i cant even think how good this game will be.

Battlefield Lagnam

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 9
Date: September 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I just want to let people know how much dissappointed i am with this game. I just threw away my $50 bucks. I have a state of the art computer system and I can play every other online game with no issues like UT2004, City of heroes, all other Battlefield series, farcry, novalogic new game Joint operations and I have no problems. Meaning NO LAG. BFV=LAG plain and simple. It feels like you are playing a game in slow motion.The game is a memory hog that leeches to your system resources until your system cant spare anymore and dont release them which equals to "SEVERE LAG=POORLY WRITTEN CODE". Either your guy would freeze up for a few minutes or would move in time delayed jerky movements. You can pretty much do nothing, other than getting frustated at being totally hopeless and getting killed by the time your get some normal movements back and the process starts again. The game also spawns you right in the middle of a fight at your base at the same point everytime and you are a open bait for spawn campers. The graphics are also pretty unimpressive compared to what we currently have out there. I tried majority of the servers out there same lag issues, sometime it wont even let me log in while there are more than 10 vacant slots or more for some weird reason. I uninstalled the game for good after trying the new patch, reinstalling the game etc. I have gone back to playing the orginal BF1942 and its stable expansions. I would never buy another EA Battlefield series game again until its out for couple of months and gets good reviews. Its game that was released in its early beta state to mint some money. Save your money..or buy this game and burn it..your choice ofcourse.

Cant wait!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 10
Date: March 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game isn't and expansion just to clear that up. Its a stand-alone game. I'm looking forward to see how well this compares to the Eve Of Destruction mod which is tough competition. From the screenshots its looks awesome

The personal Critics of this game have NO idea

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 11
Date: March 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The people that have problems with there copy not working is only because they are willing to spend a little money on a state of the art game, are the people that just want something for free. If you buy the finest graphical game that is made at this moment, you must be willing to keep your computer at the same level There are cheap places with a white and blue sign that sell games for $9.99 everyday to serve your needs just fine, but if you want to hang with the big boys. Then be willing to keep up with a computer that is not purchased for $499.99. Study and find a computer that is capable of being UPGRADABLE, The most important thing to look for is can you upgrade the Memory, AGP slot for upgrading Video Car, and capable of upgrading the CPU (Processor). Then you will not have a problem PLAYING THE REAL GAMES of Technology.

i like bfv

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 11
Date: April 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

ilike this game because it have best single player & multiplayer game

5 stars to Best war game I ever seen

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This battlefield has very high quality of graphics so buy it if u like battlefield.

1-Pros:
a-good music b-blood c-best multiplayer c-new vehicles & new weapons d-very sharp graphics than any battlefields e-good single player f-new weapons effects.

2-Cons:
a-it needs high system b-3.5stars to single player mode.
I am a battlefield fan & I like this battlefield Vietnam.

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