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Don't waste your time or money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 60 / 115
Date: March 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is full of bugs. I paid for this product with the understanding that it would be the final product. I can not understand people who would give this game 5 stars when it was so obviously rushed to the market place for profit. Just becuase this is software and not, say for example a car should not mean we should except a poor quality product. Imagine buying a car and then writing a review, "It is a great car and I give it 5 stars out of five. I can't wait until they put out the rcall to make the brakes work and to stop it from stalling out when I reach 60 miles an hour." It is a double standard that software companies are used to getting away with. The game is choppy and the buggy. I have a top of the line system and it is still laggy with bad graphics. The AI is terrible. I would not buy this game again and I will think twice before buying another Electronics Arts product. This review is my opinion and is not based on what I have expirenced. Take it for what it is worth.

Outdated graphics and game play

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: May 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I purchased this game expecting everything that gamer magazines and web sites promised. What I saw on my computer was a game with graphics at least 2 to 3 years behind other games. Sure the maps are large and you can drive vehicles but other games now do a vetter job of this. The landscape is very repetive, the AI is terrible and the interaction with objects and targets is very poor. Try Far Cry, Painkiller, Vietcong or UT 2004.

Don't bother. Wait for the patched, Gold Edition.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: March 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This *looks* like it would be a wonderful game. Really.

Unfortunately, the hardware this game needs to run on is not so much 'top of the line', as other reviews claim, as it is just plain limited.

EA simply hasn't gotten this one ready yet. I suppose it's another indication of the pressure to release games, instead of taking the time to get it right. For example, the sound hardware supported is SoundBlaster or nothing. Have an nforce2 board? Forget 5.1 sounds. Have a Quadro4, or FireGL graphics card? Sorry, we didn't test them.

In short, if you don't have a Dell Dimension Desktop, this game will underperform, and currently has a number of hideous bugs which make the game unplayable. Extremely disappointing, I was really looking forward to this one. Save your money.

Game doesn't work

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 12
Date: March 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Don't buy this unless they fix the problems! Can't even start a game. it just freezes. Obviously, released before it was finished. Piece of junk.

DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: March 31, 2004
Author: Amazon User

From Hanoi Hanna blasting in you ear to ALL to errors in content, this is NOT a follow-up to Battlefield 1942. Too many mistakes in battle units and weapons used. EA programmers did not research beyond watching re-runs of "Platoon". The Game Warden sequence does not follow actual operations and Battle for Hue uses incorrect map and units. Only Jane Fonda could appreciate this simulation and don't be suprised if you see her operating a anti-aircraft weapon.

Boring, slow

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: April 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I am sorry. This was a big waste of money. Long load times, I mean really long. After hearing the same music over and over again I began to just turn off the sound. Why I cannot use a joystick for the flying mode is a good question since were in the year 2004! and I am still using arrow keys? Reminds me of my Commodore VIC20! There are so many better choices. Call of Duty plays just fine on my computer and the multiplay is outstanding when compared to this play-station arcade game. Repeat, I will never buy an EA game again because of this. DO NOT WASTE 40 dollars on this Salvation Army donation. Thats where mine is going. I can use the tax break and learn a lesson

SOOOOOOO BAD!!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 12
Date: November 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Bought this game with great expectations only to be terribly disappointed. This game is absolutely horrid!!! It is not even in the same league as Far Cry. The the missions suck, the gameplay sucks, the interface sucks and even the graphics suck on a 5900 Ultra. PacMan on an Atari is better than this.

how can such a popular game suck so bad?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: June 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

i know nobody cares what i think, but bf 1942 and bf vietnam are perhaps two of the worst games i've ever played. in 2006, the controls are of course completely dated and terrible (though i don't care about the graphics, they're pretty cool actually). bf vietnam does a great job at atmosphere. you really feel like you're there in vietnam. but then what happens? the control of the weapons is TRASH. talk about clunky!!! the CALL OF DUTY series blows this game away in every regard. sure, call of duty could learn some things from this game - how to use bigger maps and vehicles for example. but as far as actual GAMEPLAY and excitement, call of duty is infinitely better. there were times in this game where i'd go maybe 20 minutes without even seeing an enemy! all you do is walk around, keep walking, keep walking... maybe this is like real war, but if i wanted to be a real soldier i'd go join the army.

Battlefield Vietnam

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: March 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have played battlefield 1942 over a year now, and have played the user created mod "Desert Combat" for the better part of that year. Naturally I coudn't wait to get the new game, bfv, because of the imporvements to graphic quality and such; however, the game is awful. By no means is my machine the fastest there is, but it is faster than most, so the problems that I am having with the game is simply the games fault. Firstly, the game is incredibly choppy, the game doesn't recognize when a bot has been hit, there are "invisible walls." Now, these are just a few of the programming problems that the game has; however, the gameplay also suffers significantly. Now, one of the things that I loved about DesertCombat was the realism and the fact that not everyone could operate all vehicles equally. It seems that bfv was created so that just about anyone could simply hop in vehicle and go, ie helicopters will automatically hover when you let go of all controls...well thats no good. In addition, in an attempt to give the game better graphics, the size of the maps have reduced significantly. when flying jets, it seems as though I'm always turning inorder to stay within bounds. In short, do not buy this game now, it needs much much much improvemnt. I really think bfv's predecessor bf1942 is a much better game.

Terrible

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: March 26, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Unplayable FPS. Gameplay is very jerky, long loading times (two minutes or more when beginning a new scenario...you have to sit through almost an entire song while waiting), annoying/distracting lag when trying to go from stand to crouch to prone, awkward control/feel when attempting to pilot aircraft which I couldn't get the hang of despite endless attempts; overall a big disappointment... traded in to EB for ten bucks after a few days. Reccommend Call Of Duty instead.

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