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cracking game, open play

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: July 27, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I'll spare you all the usual blurb about this game and will simply sumarise by saying this:
- it's terrific fun. I mean it - it completely immerses you and makes you feel like you're there
- you can do whatever you want in each of the missions, including sitting back and watching your friends go in and try the attack themselves (and sometimes succeed!)
- the graphics, sound and gameplay are rivetting: you feel scared - as you should in this kind of game

I loved it, finished it and am playing it again. Thoroughly recommended...

Happy shopping
JB

Not Just For Broadband

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 12
Date: November 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game Rocks and its not only for High speed internet users. Those who tell you you need a Cable or ADSL Modem haven't got a clue about how a computer works. Everything on BF 1942 is server side the actual amount of info that is passed back and forth is ver very small. Your system is the big factor in BF 1942. Processor Speed, memory, Hard Drive acsess speed and Video speed are all much more important than Connection speed. I play BF 1942 Multi Player on a 28.800 connection, I have my system Tweaked out and I get very little lag. I love it when those who have no clue about how the ineternet works scream at me because my ping is above 350, I laugh blow them away and increase my standing. If you are running a decent system (1.5 gig porcessor and 512 DDR with at least 128 of vedio mem) this game will run very well using Dial up.

Battlefiled 1942 Deluxe Review

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: June 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I've owned this game now for the past few weeks and feel I am now able to offer a review. I hope some of you find it useful.

Firstly, my comp specs:

Atlon 1.2Ghz
1 Gig Ram
Geforce 4ti 4600 Graphics Board
Win XP
512K Cable Connection

I run the game in 1024 x 728 resolution with all settings set to maximum and it runs smoothly and looks great. It only 'jerked' slightly when I was downloading a 250 mb file at the same time as playing!

The gameplay itself is fantastic. You can fly planes, drive jeeps, tanks even have access to battleships. At first these are hard to master but once you've practiced, and plenty of it, you should quickly become a force to reckoned with.

Most missions are objectively based so you will have to carry these out if you want to continue. Generally you and the enemy have a pool of lives each, which are depleted as you and your team mates get killed. You have to carry out the objectives prior to all your teams lives being used. The missions are historically based and quite accurate from what I hear too. The Road to Rome expansion pack adds to the longevity of the game offering addtional maps and missions and what also adds is the fact that you can play as either the Allies or Axis.

Where this game comes into its' own is in multiplayer mode over the internet. It is fair to say you do really need a hefty connection to get the best form this as there is so much going on. Theres nothing better than sitting in an anti aircraft placement shooting at fellow interneters in their planes as they fly overhead. You can also climb into a vehicle with one of your friends so that one drives and you've got an intelligent mate doing the shooting. On line you could just play it and play it and play it. Couple this with the desert combat mod, which gives you access to jets and helicopters and puts you in the gulf war it really is just superb.

So thats it really, a thoroughly enjoyable game, well executed in my opinion, and just great fun. Buy it and enjoy it!

Too much fun to be legal!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: June 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game upon the recommendation of "Extended Play" review and favorable reviews from owners. If you buy this game you might as well settle in with massive quantities of snacks and sodas-IT IS AWESOME! 2-3 hours at one sitting is commonplace, it is that much fun. I am relatively new at gaming, and more so at PC gaming, but I am loving this! Amazon.com made a great deal on the Deluxe Edition, with "Road to Rome" expansion pack and free shipping! ...

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: THIS GAME IS GREAT

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Well ive played some great war game befor but this is by far the greatest. After buying this game and installing it i learned 1 thing, well two.

*This game is great

*PRACTICE PRACTIC PRACTICE.

You must know your history, on some of the levels such as Omaha Beach, it shows the level with u-boats washed on the shore, wich was what really happened. Nearly everything is perfect to actual events,while some things have been add to create a better fun factor for gamers,example; more tanks on levels where there was really only 1 tank, or no tanks or vehicles. \

Playing this game takes learned skill. Flying planes for example is hard as heck the first time around, when i first started flying it was ugly , still is, but im alot beter.If you are really having problems go online and play, watch how the pro players fly and ask questions.

How did this get past QA?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 11
Date: December 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Ahh, Battlefield 1942. What postive things have been said about this game that have not already been said? It has already won high praise from many gaming magazines as well as several "Game of the Year" awards. With all those accolades, you'd be right in assuming that BF1942 is fine piece of code, right?

Wrong.

Now, don't get me wrong, Battlefield 1942 IS fun to play, on the rare occasions that you can find a good server with players who genuinely play together as a team. Most of the time, however, you'll be simply frustrated at the horrendous graphics bugs, sound bugs, input bugs, display bugs, connection bugs, menu bugs, CD-key bugs, copy protection bugs, etc. How, exactly, such an awful display of computer science-gone-wrong managed to win "Game of the Year" from so many magazines is beyond me. While I can definately see the appeal of being able to jump in a plane, tank, or battleship you come across, BF9142 suffers from the classic downfalls of "great concept, terrible execution."

When I first installed BF1942 and the requisite patches, I loaded up the game with eager anticipation at the fun that was in store for me. I mean, this was the game of the year, right? Well, no sooner had I started the game did it dump me back to the desktop with no explanation. It turns out that BF1942, by default, will not run if you have overridden the display refresh rate. (something that is a must if you don't want to play at the eye-watering 60Hz refresh rate) So, making the necessary adjustments, I loaded up the game once more, only to be struck by what is possibly the worst menu system I have ever encountered. The server browser, in particular, takes ages to sort the servers and will not remember your filter settings. If you want to search for games to play, be sure to use an external app like All Seeing Eye. To make matters worse, the whole menu is apparently flushed from memory once the game begins, so if you want to go back an make changes while playing, you'll sometimes have to wait nearly a minute while the hard drive grinds away to page the menu back in. With 512MB RAM, I've never had this problem with any other game.

After laboriously finding a server and waiting through the agonizingly long loading times, you'll be greeted by some the blandest graphics ever to grace an FPS. Despite their simplicity, however, the renderer runs quite poorly, even though games with graphics an order of magnitude better than BF1942 (like Unreal Tournament 2003 or Call of Duty) run smooth as silk of my machine. The explosion and pyrotechnic effects are passable, but the player and weapons models, as well as the texturing, are downright ugly. Oh, and did I mention that there is an omnipresent haze on every level that so close it makes it nearly impossible to hit these in the distance with artillery? As for the sound, it's yet another notoriously buggy area of the game. Sounds will mysteriously cut in and out when more than three our four were played at once, and sometimes they would not play at all. Even when the sounds play correctly, BF1942 is aurally bland, which gives the game a very sterile atmosphere.

But nothing, absolutely nothing, compares the sheer awful-ness of the networking code. You'd think that, with a game where multiplayer plays such a big part (the single player is utterly forgettable), the developers would focus on making online play as smooth and lag-free as possible, but BF1942 once again defies all expectations. Even with seven patches (and an eighth on the way at the time of writing), it's still frustratingly bad. Often, it's necessary to lead your target a distance of several feet in order to hit them, but since the amount you must lead them is directly proportional to the amount of lag at that moment, trying to hit someone at a distance is often a matter of luck. In addition to all this, BF1942 does one of the most boneheaded things imaginable: Make the impact prediction server-side predicted, but have the impact effects client-side predicted. What this all means is, that even if you see your shell hit the enemy tank, or see your bullets hit an airplane and takes pieces off of it, none of your hits will register if the server doesn't say so. To top it all off, BF1942 might be the first game I've played where lag manifests itself as horrible framerates. Even on 32 player servers, the moment any number of players are gathered in one spot, the game will often become a literal slideshow. With a broadband connection, I can't imagine how people with a 56K could ever hope to play this game.

Even when everything goes right, (technically) Battlefield 1942 will still find ways of annoying the hell out of you. Planes are ridiculously overpowered, being able to carry 15 or 30 bombs; add to that the complete lack of spawn protection, and you can look forward to being haplessly bombed from above with infuriating frequency. Of course, the power of the planes also means that half your time will usually be camped near the airfield while the rest of the team fights off the enemy. You can also look forward to being sniped regularly by unseen foes with rifles that fire as straight as an arrow at distances of over 1000 yards. What it all adds up to are some of the most frustrating deaths you'll ever experience in an FPS, often made worse by an inexplicable bug that makes the camera jump the very corner of the map when you die, making you wonder how exactly you got killed. "How did I die?" is a question you will be asking yourself, A LOT!

I could go on about the myriad of bugs and gameplay issues, but I will simply conclude things by saying that no amount of patching will ever fix this game. Save your money for a real WWII FPS, like Call of Duty or Day of Defeat.

A 2 1/2 Star Game Now, After The Originality Is Gone.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: August 05, 2005
Author: Amazon User

When Battlefield 1942 first came out it was a total hit unlike any other war game out there. Now however it's 3 years later and it's no longer original. The game can be fun to play at times, but in Singleplayer it's quite lacking on the number of missions. The game itself is exactly like Starwars Battlefront, which I already owned, so there was no new feel to it. Gameplay got to be somewhat boring on many levels. And while this is one of the most realistic war games out there and does have quite good graphics, the gameplay somewhat gets annoying and repetitive after awhile. Like when you're sniping unsuspecting enemies and you aim the sight right at their head. After firing three or four rounds you may hit them. And even on easiest the AI's on your side can never hold their own agaist enemy AI's, making your person have to breach every enemy line and hold every outpost. There are a few fun levels, that you'd want to replay, but many (Like The Battle of the Bulge) you're just happy are over.

Pros:
- Very Realistic War Game
- Graphics Still Good
- Multiplayer is Good

Cons:
- Singleplayer Can't Hold Its Own
- Repetitive Gameplay At Points
- Your AI Always Seem To be Worse Then Enemy AI
- Many Singleplayer Missions Are Simply Boring
- Takes Only A Day Or Two To Beat

best experience ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

First of all, this game is not a great single player game. Not bad but not great. This game was made for multiplayer. There is nothing more gratifying than watching a battle unfold right before your eyes, and your a part of it. Start as a scout and if your tired of wolking hop in a tank and blast away. DO NOT LET THIS GAME PASS YOU BY!!!

Great Game!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is great no questions asked, single player gets much more difficult from easy to hard and multiplayer is outstanding. If u find a vehicle or plane u can drive it, if in single player and AI is in it u can kick them out. I also recommend getting Battlecraft 42, look for a download online, its a great mapmaking addition to the game, make your own maps then play them.

War in 1942 with a dose of reality

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Well, if your looking for a slow-paced game, Battlefield 1942 isn't for you. This game just rocks. One of the few games that really takes a solid team to win.

For those of you who are not playing over the Internet, don't buy this game as the single player AI just bites, however, if you have high speed, then this game is THE WWII game to buy

Good luck

Alacard

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