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A solid package that is a must-buy for all FPS enthusiasts!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 15 / 15
Date: July 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

What can I say that hasn't already been said about Battlefield 1942?
The legendary MMOFPS that started it all packaged together with both its expansion packs doesn't only make good financial sense, but gives any war-gamer the one-box-stop to WWII heaven.
Playable online or over the LAN (other than the single player option) this game pits you against some of the biggest war-machines ever produced by mankind. And not only does it let you fight against them, but USE them. Every single vehicle in this game is playable. Jump in an artillery gun and blow up an incomming tank, then jump into an AA gun and bring down some enemy planes...but it doesn't stop there! jump in a plane, fly to the enemy base, bomb it to the ground, parachute down, grab one of their tanks and blast your way back out...did I mention the naval combat? including everything from aircraft cariers, to submarines, this game covers EVERY aspect of the legendary war, the likes of which will never be wittnessed again...and it leaves NOTHING to the imagination.
A definite 5 stars, hands down.

Amazing

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 15
Date: June 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Amazing, absolutely amazing. I haven't even had a chance to play it online yet, and I still think it's amazing. From some of the reviews I had read about BF: Vietnam, I wasn't sure how the single player version was going to be, but I have to tell you, it's wonderful. I played through the Allied campaign in a little over a day, and I'm still fighting my way through the Axis campaign. (I haven't even made it to the expansions yet. Wow I'm entertained...)

GREAT GAME!!! w/ its alowed couple a problems.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: August 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I play this game all the time i can. Its an incredible WW2 experience that spans so much territory with such incredible arsenals it has quickly became my favorite game. I first played it at my friends house on the original games and the next day i went out and got myself the anthology. Its perormance demands do however tend to be a little high as i have had to seet my graphics to nearly as low as possible to avoid lag and the game still looks incredible. Some of the actual gameplay problems include that though the game is designed for coordinated play whether in single player or multiplayer it doesnt always work like that. For example in single player, bots tend to run over thru fields while tanks drive right at them; another problem with bots is that they ttend to jump into vehicles and start moving with no one else in them. this is even true with multi player as people are to impatient to wait for otheres to get in 2 seater planes and such. Its like a seperate battle with teamates to get a vehicle. Coordinating artillery with stubborn teamates can be quite frustrating as well. Another thing that bugs me is that the vehicles dont have proper armor statistics; for example: if tou take an allied M3 light tank and attack a German Tiger and hit in front a few times youll destroy it however in real life to pull off an M3 taking down a Tiger it would have to get behind it or hit the treads or belly and even then it would be a suicide mission probably. Last thing ill talk about is that some vehicles dont have proper seating room like the sherman only holds 2 people when in reality its crewed by 5. That is probably whilepeople like driving tanks they dont want to be the fifth crew member who just reloads the gun. All in all this game is great for FPS lovers.

The only way to experience the fun in battlefield 1942

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 11
Date: March 31, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Is to play it as a multiplayer online game. The single player game is worthless unless you're practicing how to maneuver the vehicles or fly the planes. I've played the game for probably a thousand hours over the last couple years and had a blast doing so. It's great to play with a few friends and use team tactics against other people. If you don't enjoy large scale multiplayer battles against other folks, don't buy this game. The icing on the cake are the great mods such as Desert Combat and Galactic Conquest. The above multiplayer comment holds for those as well. Another thing to note, this game will also aggravate you to a great degree if you aren't running it on hardware that can support at least the medium or better frame rate requirements. When the action gets intense, things will get choppy and you will get killed by people with better connections/computers. I've only played it over a cable modem so I'm not sure how the gameplay is over modem. An Athlon 1700+ with 512mb mem and a GeForce 4 4200ti were good enough for the medium settings but I observed slow down on the larger maps to the point that the game was effectively unplayable when many events were occuring at once. When I say unplayable, I mean you get frameskipping and lag that will get you easily killed. Otherwise, Battlefield has been a staple of my regular gaming and will continue to be so for some time to come....or July, when Battlefield 2 comes out ;)

WW III

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 12
Date: July 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Was the Best Tactical Game ive Ever Played

A few bugs, BUT WHAT A HIT!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: July 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Ok, I admit this game has a few bugs. The only one that I seemed to have a problem with was the game messed up one time when I installed a mod BEFORE installing the official patch. GET IT RIGHT ON THEIR WEBSITE. Install this game and THEN the patch. Worked great now for months.

What mods? TOO MANY TO LIST!!! My personal favorite is Desert Combat Final. The one the only!! This mod ROCKS!! I have even played the demo for Battlefield 2, and I am still thinking about getting that game, but the same people that did the DESERT COMBAT and DESERT COMBAT FINAL mods (Trauma Studios) got hired to work on BF2 because of the Greatness of this mod!!

I have to say I am a little partial because I played this game before I played Call of Duty or Medal of Honor and even though I still own them, they are no longer installed on my system (I have Medal of Honor Pacific Assault too, but haven't even installed it - been playing BF1942 Desert Combat Final too much!). I do have Battlefield Vietnam, but I still like this one the best! It does take some time to learn to fly some of the planes and especially the helicopters but when you do you become a HUGE asset to your team!

When you get even better, there is a WHOLE LOTTA Clans out there on the net waiting for you to join. Never heard of a clan? These are groups of gammers that play together either on their server or someone elses over the internet. One person said no voice over IP. Most clans use either Teamspeak (FREE) or Ventrillo (FREE AND THE BEST!) to communicate to each other!

World War II in a Box!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: February 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Want to play the best war simulation? Go play the old Operation Flashpoint and pray that the spring 2006 Operation Flashpoint 2 deadline will be met with the best war multiplayer simulator ever conceived. Want to play a single player war game that matched the experience of Medal of Honour: Allied Assault? Then go play Call of Duty and get the expansion pack Call of Duty: United Offensive. Want to the play the best SWAT type tactical one on one? Then go get Half-Life 2 and play Counter-Strike. Fancy a futuristic sci-fi multiplayer with huge maps? Then get the latest Unreal Tournament. So what else is there? Well to be honest Battlefield 1942 is straight up probably one of the best multiplayer games I have played, but be warned, the simulation experience does call for infinite amounts of patients and the game is extremely buggy to install. There is very little good technical support except for what the community offers, updates can be patchy, people end up can't playing it, and it suffers from fatal spawn point easy target syndrome that has rendered many of the maps unplayable... however new maps are updated, but just don't expect the BF1942 community to be as responsive as let's say STEAM. The bottom line here is that even single player mode is not supported. The game comes pretty much as it is served so expect to spend more than a day, maybe a week, to get it to work on your machine with lots of google searches for your problem. The solutions should be found in forums troubleshooting guides. Be prepared for discs that don't appear to like firewalls, anti-virus checkers and other background processes. This is the game of games in terms of installation bugs and crashes. In short - Requires broadband INTERNET.

Single player like we said is not supported. Multiplayer is one big CAPTURE THE FLAG, but what a game of CTF! Problem right away is the lack of classes that looks restrictive but it is actually okay, with five types of soldiers to choose from - sniper, machine gun, rockets, medic, engineer... so it is closer to Team Fortress than Operation Flashpoint that allows full configuration of up to twenty classes. Having said that it does not reduce the impact of the game, but does leave the realm of simulation, deviating into more Unreal Tournament territory where there is very real possibility of just leaving your team behind and going on a frag-a-thon across the map. If you are into that sort of thing then maybe the more recent, but certainly not as good, Battlefield Vietnam, can offer you that type of solo bush mission multiplayer experience like Far Cry with lesser graphics, but if it is Pearl Harbor, Petersburg, German Forests, French Country, Operation Overlord, multiplayer style, where you can pilot lots of vehicles, and use a little team commands, then sir, Battlefield 1942 is really what you should be playing across that 1MB connection you got jacked into that modem.

So limiting by its nature of being a multiplayer only game, with a difficult install, that is quite old'ish by today's standards, still manages to provide the best World War II multiplayer entertainment you have ever seen with Operation Flashpoint beating it for realism and detail as a simulation, but this is the war game that people play online, and it still has quite a large community, meaning plenty of 60 (30/30) servers are still up and running with Battlefield 2 coming out sometime in 2005 (hopefully early) you can still live with getting this just because it offers world war II as you want to play it, on-line. I must say that even though I am an avid CS:S player, this one has stolen it for a bit. Battlefield 1942 really is worth it, after you get it running, and after you have the patients to actually play it like a solider ---- crawl for 2 minutes before sniping 3 enemy over the space of 10 minutes with guys above you on a score of 44... patients is the virtue while playing this if you want to win.... Or if you have the skill, grab a bomber and go drop some bouncers on a spawn building for mass kill. Personally I prefer to play to the sneaking sniper. You know I 0wned u. 

Pros:
- Multiplayer must-have.
- Fairly realistic simulation experience that you will play again and again.
- The only World War II simulation worth playing on-line right now.
- Good game engine. Solid playing.
- Replaces Operation Flashpoint as best on-line war simulation game.
- Really big player numbers of servers.

Cons:
- Harsh reality of enduring install problems and updates.
- Expensive.
- Needs broadband.
- Spawn points have exploit bugs.
- No voice-com.
- Not much of a team communication interface either.
- 2002 graphics... but still nice. Models need work.
- There is a bit of a learning curve.
- Not as vast as Operation Flashpoint.

Greatest WWII game ever made!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: January 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I saw this game on the shelf at Best Buy and I just had to have it.I love WWII and loved this game too. This game has a ton of vehicles to drive and explode. You can also drive airplanes and battleships. The smallest thing you can drive is a jeep and the largest thing you can drive is an aircraft carrier. There is a large variety of weapons including bazookas, snipers and the massive battleship deck guns. The Germans and Japs come in enormous amounts but so do your bullets. If you are in a vehicle no matter what it is, you can slam into, run over, and kill the enemy. There are different camera positions for the people who like it in a different place. You can steal enemy tanks and cars and planes. If you are in a plane, you can come in towards the enemy troops and take them out with your machine guns or come over them with some bombs and give them a little gift from the Americans. You can play as the Americans, the British, the Spanish, and the Italians. If you want to join the Axis powers you can play as the Germans and the Japanese. There is not that much action when you are among the enemy unless they are in a tank. Most of the shooting is done by you. The most action is the dogfighting in the air. If your enemy is occupying a tank, plane, jeep or battleship you should see some action. There are great online levels with new vehicles and battlefields. I have a piece of crap internet that doesn't connect me to online play with others, but I went to the online levels and they are cool even if you aren't fighting someone. So those of you with better internets should have even more fun with the game than me. A few other things that you can do are throw knives at people, stab people, bayonet them, blow them to hell with grenades, and get a jetpack to fly over the Germans and shoot them. Also, you can call for backup, artillery, and air support.Get this game, I guarentee that you will like it. And be sure to get the complete collection or the WWII anthology so you can own them all. -Clark

Get this not BF2 complete collection! (there is a trick..)

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: May 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Bf2 complete collection comes with BFV.

Any way this game is really good! Be a amercian pilot and go in some nasty dog fights. Join the infanty for some intence action or be a sniper in enemey lines, no matter what you do it rocks!

Excellent

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: May 09, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I love this game. My brother introduced it to me, and i watched him play, and decided to play for myself. Since, i have become a moderate soldier, and can be a pretty good help on the Battlefeid. As for mods, my fav is Forgotten Hope, followed by Pirates, Eve of Destruction, and Desert Combat/Desert Combat Final.

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