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Summary: The Best Online WWII Game To Date
Review: 3.20 GHz Intel Pentium 4
512 MB SDRAM
200 GB Hard Disk
DVD-ROM: 16x; DVD Recorder: (DVD+RW);
Microsoft XP Media Center Edition
VisiontTek Xtasy 9800 PRO 256 MB Battlefield 1942 Deluxe Edition is the best online WWII ever
and if you have a good computer and a DSL or higher you are
to play. I have played with a slower computer and you need
a 2.0GHz or higher or the game will be slow. You will be online playing for hours with it and it has all the weapons of WWII and the Germens and Jap. You fight Air,Sea and land and it will not get better then that.
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Summary: Battlefield 1942 Is Sweet
Review: This is the best game i ever bought. I play it every day and i cant belive how relistic it is. It beats other games because in most games like Medal of Honor your health is way to high and you dont die very fast. I played Allied assult and dident die after a german fired three rifle rounds in me. But In battlefield I took one shot and was down for the count. That is what I look for in a WWII game. Also You can drive subs, ships, planes, bombers, tanks, jeeps, apc's etc. and run around with a tomson and blow the heck out of people. That is what sets this game apart from others. Pros
weapons are cool
can drive any vehicle
realistic
lots of guns
online Cons
Need good grafics card
loads kinda slow Overall
Buy it there are more pros than cons. If you like WWII and dont buy this your Insane!
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Summary: Best online play
Review: This game is an awesome buy. With all the variety offered in weaponry and operation of equipment, it is great to play online with other human players. You can get really involved with strategy and different roles. The downside is the single-player mode. All the missions are nearly identical and it gets very dull after a short time. I see it merely as training for the online play.
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Summary: Best online WWII game
Review: Battlefield 1942 is a great game, you get to fly planes, drive tanks, ships, jeeps,and use alot of weapons. This game is best when played online. The single player isnt that good because the enemys and your soldiers are all dumber than rocks. If your looking for single player get Call of Duty.
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Summary: This game is worth it!
Review: Steven D Reilly, you've got a screw loose! This game provides all the action you could ever want in a war game. Not only does it work almost flawlessly on its own, the connections for multiplayer work just fine as well. There's no more than two minutes of load time, and that's only when I'm playing a large map with secret weapons and multiple players hooked up through a network! I play this game almost every day, and I've never had a problem! From high-flying action to crawling prone against the face of a hill, trying to sneak up on the enemy, this game is the ultimate in first-person war games! A MUST BUY for all you gamers out there!!!!!
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Summary: Oh My Goodness
Review: This game is the definition of....FUN!!! I cant stop playing this game! This game has everything. You can fight on ground, drive jeeps, drive boats, fly planes, man anti-aircraft guns, big cannons, and much more! Plus you get to do it all under complete freedom just about! And the maps are HUGE! This game is just like a real war. Pure awesome! This is the best online game Ive ever played. Just be sure you have a good rig that will hold up this monster game :)
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Summary: Excellent
Review: In a tide of WW2 based games, this one stands above all others. The one difference: you can fight as the Axis, which makes it a more flexible game than others. Graphics are good, sound is excellent, controls are extremely simple and easy to learn, and gameplay is second to none. Best computer game in a long time.
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Summary: So many ways to play
Review: Watch out... this one will absorb all your free time and then some. Great 3D engine. You can set how much CPU the AI will take. Don't set it too high or you can't move before you get killed. Great range of difficulty. You can set how many opponents are out there as well as how many friendly units. Several different maps. Each map you have to play differently. It is fun learning how to play each map. You can ride in a tank, shoot from a battleship, fly a fighter plane or be any of four different positions in a bomber. (Not to mention sitting on top of a hill as a sniper. :) Very fun game. Played on AMD AthlonXP 1800 with 1 gig RAM and GForce 4 video card. Multiplayer using 1/2 T1. (Ok, so... I am spoiled)
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Summary: Battlefield 1942
Review: OK, so this is the game of the year huh ? Come on EA Peoples/makers.... How bout something that actually works ? I mean you load the game, then you need patches. Then sit and spend about 20-30 minutes trying to connect to a server. Dont think I am joking. I am on day 5 now. I spend more time trying to connect then actually playing. And you want me to what !?!?!? Rush out and buy Vietnam this spring ?? I dont think so. I have windows XP, and my computer is less than a year old. I have all the system rqrmnts and then some. I have talked to your tech help on-line. I have run diagnostic tests on my pc. I am done with you guys. And yes, I am passing the word. Save your money. Dont waste your time. Go play something else on-line. And please.............. dont look for a new game around the corner. Cuz the corner coming....... wont come. For all you you people out there thinking "I know, I know.... but my kid wants the game......" dont give in. Save yourself now. Dont do it. Save the 35-40 bucks and dont get the game. And for all you people that said this was game of the year ? Heck... my 13 year old son and my 12 year old daughter think you are all on drugs. 'JUST SAY NO !' And I want to know.................... how are these people that said it was 'Game of the year ?' Some idiots that have a degree in something totally un-related to gaming. Come to my house. See what is going on with my system. I dare you to make me eat my words. I can promise you, I will prove you wrong.
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Summary: How did this get past QA?
Review: 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.
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