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 | Title : Battlefield: 1942
Author : Electronic Arts
Release Date : 20020911
Binding : CD-ROM
Regular Price : $49.99
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Editorial Reviews :
In Battlefield 1942, you're a WWII soldier on a true-to-life battlefield, equipped with weapons that look and sound authentic, able to storm the beaches on foot or seamlessly jump into and out of any of 35 vehicles of war. The depth is incredible. While on foot, you play as one of five specialized classes (assault, medic, scout, antitank, or engineer) with varying equipment and abilities. The choice of vehicles ranges from a selection of tanks, jeeps, and other fairly standard mechanized land vehicles to exotic craft like battleships, submarines, and dive bombers. Best of all, you can pit yourself against your fellow man in objective-based online battles in four distinct WWII theaters of war: North Africa, South Asia Pacific, Western Europe, and Eastern Europe. This is everything that World War II Online should have been. This is Tribes 2 with better code, graphics, control--everything, and without the cheesy sci-fi trappings. This out-WWIIs Medal of Honor and Return to Castle Wolfenstein. This game is like the ultimate sandbox, with all the best toys.
Buyer Reviews :
THE GOOD: The best online multiplayer action since Return to Castle Wolfenstein was released! Several weapons and classes of foot soldiers to choose from (medic, engineer, assault, sniper, anti-tank), and vehicles galore! Subs, battleships, bombers, fighters, tanks, artillery, and more. Parachute out of a fighter, man an AA gun, blast APC's with a variety of tanks, use a destroyer to bombard the beach. There is just so much to do in this game that each round can feel different depending on the vehicle and/or class of soldier you choose to use. Battlefield 1942 is every bit as ambitious as the hype that preceded it's release. It's an excellent game, and will provide hours of fun if you have a broadband internet connection and a fast enough 'puter to run it. And unlike many WWII shooters, which sport only American and German soldiers, BF 1942 contains troops and vehicles from all 5 major powers of the conflict: American, British, Russian, German, and Japanese. All of which speak in their native tongues and fight in every major theatre: Pacific, Western and Eastern fronts, and North Africa.
THE BAD: The single player campaign. If you can call it a campaign. It's merely the multiplayer maps against pathetic bots. If you aren't planning on, or do not have the connection to, play the game online: don't bother. This game was built with online play in mind, and that's it.
THE UGLY: The computing power and connection speed required to enjoy BF 1942 are huge. Even with a 1.47 ghz CPU, 512 megs of DDR RAM, and a 64 meg Geforce3, I still had to adjust the in game graphics settings to get it to run smoothly. It lags quite often, even in single player mode! Now that my settings are tweaked enough, the game runs fine, but still hits an occasional hiccup even over a 784k/256k DSL connection. Don't even bother if you have a dial-up.
BOTTOM LINE: If you have the computing power and the CABLE/DSL/T1 connection to run it smoothly, you won't find many games more fun than this one to play online. The maps, gameplay, vehicles, and soldier classes are all outstanding, and with the abundance of variety in tactical approaches, you'll never get bored. A fabulous game.
(by Clint Mosso)
Features/Technical Specs :
* First person, team-based action game that places you in the midst of a WWII battlefield
* Enter the fray as one of five specialized infantry specialties--assault, medic, scout, anti-tank, or engineer--each accurately modeled from the American, German, British, Russian, or Japanese armies
* Pilot or crew any of 35 war machines including jeeps, fighters, bombers, artillery, APCs, tanks, aircraft carriers, submarines, and other craft
* Go online to take part in raging multiplayer battles with up to 64 players
* Engage in battle across 16 huge maps, based in great detail upon the four main WWII theaters of war: North Africa, South Asia Pacific, Western Europe and Eastern Europe
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