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Summary: Quake again!?
Review: So my friend bought me BF1942 for Christmas which I thought was pretty cool because hey, free game! But anyways I was reading the manual before I played the game and it was sounding really good. The levels are colorfully described and it sounds like a really fun game. However, I was dismally wrong. The single player game for Battlefield 1942 is exactly like the multiplayer, except bad. Even with the patches it's really bad. The gameplay is really jittery and the framerate sucks. Even at the highest level the bots you play against are pretty dull AI-wise. But at least you can adjust how dull they actually are. Whether slightly dull or extremely dull.Now you may be wondering why I gave this game a 3 star rating if I thought that it was so bad. Well I discovered that if you download and install all the patches then the multiplayer is good and runs as smooth as you would expect from any game. I was able to get myslef hyped up about Battlfield 1942 again through the multiplayer. The game mostly consists of taking victory locations which can then be used as spawn points by your teammates and yourself. There are a variety of vehicles to use in the game. Whether as gunner, driver, or both. These consist of different varieties of tanks for both sides, jeeps, halftracks, planes, and other types of armored explosive shooting vehicles. In island battles you can also put yourself behind the driving and gun controls of a battleship floating off the coast, drive in a Higgins boat full of soldiers, take control of a submarine, oh and taking off in a plane from an aircraft carrier is fun too. Among other things, there are shore battery defilade guns, mounted machine guns, and anti-aircraft guns able to be manned and used. Some of the tanks have top mounted machine guns which you can control and shoot while someone else drives and fires the tanks. There are also these same mg's on most of the halftracks. The planes come in three different types, regular fighters, heavy fighters with a tail gunner seat, and bombers in a level or two which come with the regular pilot seat as well as side machine guns, tail gunner, and bubble gunner seats. Battlefield 1942 falls short in terms of what types of soldiers you can be. You can be a regular soldier with an assault rifle, a medic with a regular rifle, an engineer with a regular rifle and the ability to plant mines and demo charges and repair things, a bazooka soldier, or a sniper called a "scout" for some reason. it would've been nice to have some different selections in that area. Planes do take awhile to learn how to fly well and then take longer to learn how to actually be effective with them. You'll see many people just flying the planes around trying to bomb right just because it's fun. Also demo charges and mines are usually completely useless. Especially since mines dissapear after time if nothing drives over them which I find ridiculous. I did manage to find a loophole for single player though. Just create an MP game from the SP menu and play it on coop mode with bots. Voila single player, but with better quality because it's an MP game. Personally, BF1942 felt more like Quake with a World War 2 theme to me. And why EA Games can make multiplayer games so smooth, but single player games so choppy is beyond me.
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Summary: Awesome WW2 Shooter
Review: This game is an awesome WW2 shooter. It's weapons are modeled just like they looked and so are the vehicles. That's another sweet aspect of the game. They have all the tanks, planes, jeeps, mounted weapons, etc. I have never played the multiplayer on the game [which I wish to try sometime!] but i'm sure the single player campaings are just as good. The envioronments you play in are very close to what those battlefields really looked like. I think this is one of the best games on the pc, and I can't wait to try out the expansion pack [Road to Rome]. If you like awesome first person WW2 shooters, get this game!!!!!
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Summary: Buy only if you use multiplayer
Review: BF1942 is my favorite game for the pc right now. I was excited that there was going to be an expansion, but disappointed that not that much was 'expanded'. New vehicles, maps, French and Italian forces, and fixed bayonets for engineers are the only things new for this game. I was looking forward to the single play campaign, but the game doesn't even incorporate the new maps into it. I think that the designers could have added a little more to make it worth buying. If you like multiplayer gaming, maybe you should buy this game, but still, it seems like a lot for so little.
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Summary: Best War Simulation Game EVER!
Review: This game is tuley the best war simulation game ever!You fight your way to victory in the most intense battles of World War II.
You can take control of every vehicle from battleships, to tanks, to aircraft carriers and much more.The game has 35 veichles in it and 20 real life weapons. You can be the victorious Allies(USA/Britain/Russia) or the ruthless Axis (Germans/Japanese)in 4 theatres of the war: The South Pacific, Northern Africa, and Eastern and Western Europe. You can also play online against friends using GameSpy.
Now the expansion pack, Road to Rome, is available. Road to Rome focuses on the Italian and Sicilian campagnis in World War II. It gives you 8 new vehicles, 2 new figting forces (French and Italian armies), and new hand held weapons.
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Summary: I like it too...
Review: This game inspired me to create a FAQ, annotate the maps and put them online, create an extensive tips and tactics page, and create a weapons effects chart, to name a few things...P>What makes the game wonderful is all the vehicles and fixed weapons. One of my most memorable early games involved driving a destroyer down the coast, jumping out into a landing craft as it was sinking, landing and stealing an enemy tank, then capturing an enemy outpost with this tank. Wonderful! Yes, there are some bugs that have mostly been fixed... under the game's options, you can change mouse sensitivity. I *do* recommend having a GeForce4 ti (not MX) at least to fully enjoy this game - a good graphics card makes a difference, and this game is a great excuse to upgrade.
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Summary: Too many things in no depth
Review: I'm not saying this is not a good game. But certainly this is NOT one of the best WW2 games. Yes, it has almost everything you want to see in battle. Infantry, tanks, bombers, fighters, aircraft carriers, jeeps and so on. But it fails to make players feel the thrill of battlefield and experience WW2. In BF1942, all weapons and equipments are too simple and unreal. Moreover, it is ridiculous that you can identify friend/foe with name tags from a distance. Well... enjoyable if you don't know about WW2 and don't care the reality of battlefield. But this is not for WW2 fans like me.
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Summary: an upgrade worth the $$
Review: I strongly recommend spending the [$$] to purchase Road to Rome. This is an unusually strong add-on for what is already a fantastic game. The maps on RTR are meticulously crafted and challenging; they are, on the whole, a more complete package than the set of maps in the original BF1942. Husky, in particular, is a blast--extremely balanced and conducive to intense play by both sides, making it very difficult for one team to quickly take over the map and dominate the other side. The 1.3 patch that comes with RTR (which can also be downloaded without buying the RTR expansion) is also a strong reason to buy--the tweaks to existing maps, weapons, graphics, and gameplay in general are very worthwhile.
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Summary: Need plenty of ram
Review: It's a great game, but you do need at least 512m ram. Even a 2g proccessor with only 256m won't cut it.
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Summary: Great Game, but...
Review: BF1942 was one of the best games of the year. When I heard about BF1942 expansion Road to Rome I couldn't wait to get it. But when I had purchased this game and went home to play it it I was sort of disappointed because there wasn't that much of a change from the original BF1942 and only a few things were added. Most of the vehicles were almost the same except with a little modification and that you can't use the new vehicles on the old maps. Overall the expansion was well worth the price and no matter what this game is still one of the best.
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Summary: its battlefield 1942 and more
Review: This game is everything you ever would want in battlefield 1942 and more. EA has included a handful of new planes, armies and weapons. a fun little weapon they included was the bayonet which is fun to turn a corner and find an enemy and get him. If you have a beefy computer and the original battlefield 1942, buy this expansion pack. if you dont have the original battlefield, buy it and road to rome. Trust me it's well worth your money
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