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Summary: Road to Rome
Review: If the expansion is anything like the original then this game will kick some serious .... Battlefield 1942 is one of those hidden gems of a game that people have never heard of but once they play it, they are hooked forever. BF1942 has been voted Action Game of the Year by many sources and this expansion is looking to really take its place next to its bigger sister.
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Summary: Battlefield 1942 is excellent
Review: If you love games about world war 2 then you will love this game. The graphics are almost perfect and it has the best settings I've ever seen. You can drive in almost every vehicle there was in 1942. You can even drive in a submarine. What I do when someone jumps in a B-17 (Flying Fortress)is I jump in right after him because, I like to ride in a plexiglass bubble under the plane armed with two 50 Cal. machine guns.
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Summary: Wasting away in front of my computer...it's BF 1942's fault!
Review: I received BF1942 for an early Xmas present and have been wasting away in front of my computer ever since. Well, not really...but I'd like to.
My system is a Sony Vaio 2 GHz, 512MB RAM, and GeForce4 card running XP Home. No problems with the game running smoothly, so I'm not sure why we see so many gripes here...
This is a highly addictive game.
Positive points:
+ Online playing is FREE unlike some other games.
+ You can control virtually any vehicles you encounter. You can even steal enemy stuff!
+ Multiplayer gaming is more fun because of the unpredictable behavior of real humans.
+ The rendering of terrain and objects is quite good. Even the trees sway in the breeze!
Negative points:
- Map loading is rather slow
- Spawning and respawning is slower than I'd expect
- There are still a few annoying bugs, but perhaps a patch is coming soonWish list:
? How about field artillary, Howitzers, cannons, etc.
? How about more initial spawn points closer to the action. Too much time spent getting there...
? How about taking POWs to collect tickets. This was a major part of WWII and is realistic. I am having dreams about some of the battle scenarios. It is THAT absorbing. I can't get the music out of my head either.
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Summary: Good Idea, Bad Implementation
Review: When I first heard of this game I was impressed, a good idea. The ability to choose what ever vehicle you wanted, land sea and air etc. I was immediately fronted with long loading times. I decided to try the single player first and it was extremely slow and choppy game play so I tried out the multiplayer which where even longer loading times. I stuck with this game for a good several days thinking I could get used to its flaws but I just couldn't get past the buggy and choppy gameplay. The graphics are nothing to cheer about below Medal of Honor and Soldier of Fourtune II. The sound was ok. All in all not worth the money. Even with my system specs you still have to turn down the graphics to medium and even low to have decent gameplay and I can run Medal of Honor and SOF2 with high graphics on multiplayer and have it run smooth. System specs: Windows XP Pro
DSL
Pentium 4 2.0 gHz
256 DDR Ram
GeForce 3 Ti200 128mb ram
Sound Blaster 5.1
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Summary: You Gotta Buy This Game!!
Review: Get your shoes on, and go out to buy this game. It's my first multiplayer game and it is fantastic. Imagine a live battle between 64 different players from all over the world. You can use guns, tanks, jeeps or planes. Fly like a pro after a few hours of practice. Or unleash a firestorm from your battleship. I'm terrible at games, compared to the hotshots. But, in this one, you can take it slow, hide behind buildings, and take out the enemy with your sniper rifle. As you skills improve, you'll be amazed to find yourself flying a plane. I was bombing an aircraft carrier last night after my first week. Have fun, and watch for MAD_GUNNER when you are online.
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Summary: Awesome game with minor bugs
Review: Yes you do need a decent system to run this game so it wont bog down. The multiplayer game on this is untouched by any other war game out there right now. Not only are you a foot soldier, sniper, engineer, etc but you can also control a number of different vehicles - all of which have their own strengths and weaknesses as they did in WWII. For example the Panzer tanks are superbly accurate (as they were a dominant tank then). Most of the maps make for a fun gameplay. The maps are also finely detailed and are very similar to actual combat scenes from the war. The only downsides (and no big deal) - there are still bugs to be tweaked out as my compuer has locked up 3x in about 200 times of me getting on the game. They do release patches so hopefully it'll all be perfect one day. The single player mode is ok, the campaign part (fighting the entire war as axis or allies)is definitely better than instant battles. Unless you raise the difficulty, the single player is too easy and will end up not helping you if you use that to "practice" before going to multiplayer. All in all, this game is one of the best multiplayer games out and I do recommend this to everyone who likes these types of games and has a machine that can run it properly.
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Summary: Buggy Game, Derivative Gameplay
Review: The lure of Battlefield 1942 is impressive - the purported ability to engage in large-scale battles with tanks, planes, infantry, and even naval units. What is unfortunate is that, like so many great game concepts this one falls victim to the specter of terrible execution. Collision detection is spotty. The integration with Gamespy is virtually nonexistent, requiring ridiculous load times just to get a "server full!" message. For a game that is suppposedly about mass battle, the network code is atrocious. Anything more than 32 players becomes a slide show - over a T1, cable modem, or DSL line. The game absolutely falls apart at low framerates - the chat interface loses keystrokes, players teleport large distances. And the gameplay. Oh, how agonizing. Planes kill everything with one shot; they take multiple shots from a flak cannon (if you can find one) to kill. The planes have _tremendous_ amounts of ammo, enough to do numerous passes on single infantry targets, killing them instantly - then the driver can just parachute out behind enemy lines and camp as a sniper. Ships destroy emplaced weapons with one shot; it takes 18-20 shots from these guns to destroy a ship. Mounted machine guns (.50s and MG-42s) take multiple shots to kill a target. It takes an average of three bazooka rounds to destroy a tank, some requiring four. The first-person shooter element is horribly outclassed by virtually any other shooter, as players skip and jitter everywhere. There are no hit reactions for small-arms fire, and no blood or dust puffs, so you're never sure if you're hitting your target. Animation is non-fluid. Enemy and friendly markers appear only when you are close enough to see if the unit is friendly or enemy, which is always too late. Tanks take damage from going over barbed wire (!). If you barely nudge a wall with your tank or jeep, it gets damaged. Trying to use the MG mounted on the tank in cooperative mode is suicide, as it turns with the turret, making tracking very difficult. Weapons don't automatically reload - when your clip runs out you just sit there, on an empty clip, with no sound warning or indicator. And the sniper problem continues with this game - why make sniping a "one shot, one kill" experience, then not clean up your other damage models? A sniper bullet to the head kills you, but five pistol rounds at close range don't? A BAR clip in the back doesn't? The vehicles are decent, but due to lack of balance combat becomes so heavily vehicle-slanted that being infantry is suicide. This results in people stacking up behind vehicle depots, shooting one another for vehicles, etc. Teamwork is nonexistent, except on maps that ban vehicles. The makers of the game bypassed realism to make some parts more fun, but ruined other parts by making them too real. An example of this is the plane flight simulation - it is ridiculously complicated, requring rudder, flap, and speed control, tilt, roll, etc. Sure, you can master it, but it makes flying a niche skill, and with their devastating firepower it is detrimental to the first-time-player experience. Not to say there aren't good times. But the bad-times-to-good-times ratio here is terrible, significantly higher than the freeware CounterStrike. More often than not you are left wondering "how did I get killed?!?", particularly after stumbling upon enemy troops with their back to you, emptying a BAR clip into their backs, to have them turn around and shoot you in the head. Most aggravating is the fact that this FPS still has every FPS problem that has been around for years. People can still bunnyhop in firefights. I've seen real firefights. There is rarely jumping involved. Also, in the game momentum reversal is instantaneous, meaning players zig and zag unrealistically. Combine this with the lag, and you have a frustrating experience where the person nearest the server always wins. Take it back in shop, fix the obvious bugs, and release it six months from now, and I'd give it four stars. For now, it only gets two.
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Summary: Cool multi game
Review: Playing alone is not as fun as playing over the internet just like many reviewer said. Playing over the internet really makes this game much much more valuable for sure. I have 500 MHz, 320 MB RAM, 64 MB Video Card and works just fine. You don't have to have latest and greatest PC to play this game though box recommends about 700+ MHz. If you are looking for war type internet/network linkable games, you should definitely get this one. I do recommend having high speed internet when you are playing over the internet, or you will absolutely hate playing because internet lagging will cause you to loose life way too often.
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Summary: BLARGH!!!!!!11
Review: first things first- this game would have a 5 if i could just get the friggin game to work for more than 10 minutes at a time!!!!! it always crashes whenever start up a game- but when it does work, its outta this world. if you see an unoocupied vehicle, its yours. you havent expirenced bliss until you fly a spitfire behind german lines, hijack a tiger, and put a shell in your enemies back without them not even knowing you are there. butthe other EA pc game i got is AALLIED ASSAULT, and it crashes often too. hmmm.... lets ponder this situation. all but 3 of my ps2 games are from ea ( i got 7 ps2s from ea), and i lov them all. SO WHY WONT ANY OF THEIR PC GAMES WORK RIGHT????!!!???
BLARGH!!!1
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Summary: A bit overhyped but still a good game
Review: To start off, I think it's fair to say that I am not in a very good position to review this game because it didn't run well on my computer. However, performance issues still should be noted. I have a Pentium 3 800 Mhz with 256 MB of RAM and a Geforce 3. I guess it's not a gaming rig with a Geforce 4 Ti 4600 with an Athlon 2700+, but it still should be able to run Battlefield 1942 decently at the lowest detail levels. Unfortunately, it doesn't. My computer chugs along at 10-20 fps at the lowest settings. Even the mouse seems laggy in the menu. The 3 minute load time is also really annoying. And no, the 1.2 patch didn't help. However, ignoring the performance issues, it's still a great game. In the past year, 3 notable World War II games have come out: Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Medal of Honor, and Battlefield 1942. Battlefield 1942 is definitely a step beyond RTCW and MOHAA. IMHO RTCW fell short on the number of multiplayer maps; it always seemed like I was playing the same maps over and over again. In addition, one of the checkpoint maps had phoney machine gun and bomb sounds that came from the same building everytime you passed by it. Yeah, the flamethrower was cool, but that was about it. MOHAA had a wide map selection, but the aging CS model of gameplay put me to sleep. On one map, the Allied forces need to plant a bomb on an Axis flak cannon. Sound familiar? It sounds just like CS. Battlefield 1942 is a radical departure from these two games in that it offers massive multiplayer maps with vehicles. It gives a different feel to the WWII gaming experience in a way I cannot describe. Simply put, it's just better than RTCW and MOHAA. However, I think the fact that there are 35 different vehicles overhypes the game. Yeah, it's nice to have different vehicles. But the 35 include tanks from all 5 sides, planes from all 5 sides, and cars from all 5 sides and everything pretty much has the same properties except that they look different. Battlefield 1942 is also hyped to be everything Tribes 2 was supposed to be but wasn't. As a big Tribes 2 fan, I find that a bit offensive because Battlefield 1942 comes nowhere close to being what Tribes 2 should've been. Battlefield 1942 is much more slow paced than Tribes 2 and is no match for Tribes 2's heart-pounding action. I'm not saying that Battlefield is not a good game, I'm just saying that Battlefield 1942 has a different flavor. Battlefield 1942 can't be hyped to be everything Tribes 2 was supposed to be just because Tribes 2 crashed all the time and Battlefield 1942 doesn't and because both games have vehicles. I just wish that I had a better computer to play Battlefield 1942 because it is just a great game. However, I think it's a bit overhyped.
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