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Summary: Excellent Expansion, worth the money
Review: It may seem like a small package, containing only 6 levels, in addition to the original's 20 something, but they are the 6 best levels in the game. Single player or with some chums, this is as good as gaming gets. [Money] is a cheap price considering how many hours you will spend with these 6 levels, even topping the original.
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Summary: Great game, but you need hi-end system and hi-speed modem
Review: First off, you need a very good system to play this game, that's really the only downside I can see, (which isn't a problem for me, I've got a new P4 2.8 gig, etc.) So in fairness to the developers, if someone has a weak system and thinks the game stinks, it's probably because they just can't enjoy the game as it was intended.Personally, I was blown away by this game. The graphics and gameplay are fantastic. It's all the fun of a first-person shooter, with a challenging bit of realism (but not so much that you die every time you scratch your pinky). The vehicles take the game 10 steps further. The first time I hopped into the machine-gunner position on top of a tank while another player was driving, I thought it was one of the greatest gaming moments for me. Same goes for the gunner positions in the bomber planes, very cool stuff. Also, character choices are pretty well-balanced, much like Team Fortress Classic. Word of warning, this game can be played in single-player mode, but it is not NEARLY as satisfying as playing online. I.e. if you don't have a high-speed connection, don't buy this, you won't be able to play multiplayer and the single-player mode just isn't as much fun. Overall, if you enjoy shooters and/or WWII games, this is probably the game for you. Also, I had Medal of Honor before I bought this. I thought MoH was cool and figured B'field would be about the same...I was way wrong. Nothing against MoH, it's got a fine single-player game, but the excitement of B'field 1942's multiplayer games just tops the cake. My friend's comments on the game pretty much sums it up. "I was sitting in the ball turret position in a bomber, shooting at the tanks and jeeps whizzing by on the ground, when all of the sudden I see this guy floating by in a parachute. That's when I realized it was my pilot."
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Summary: The best World War Two game yet
Review: This game surpasses Medal of Honor mainly because it has a massive multiplayer system. I love to play in the servers which can host 64 players at a single time. It adds strategy. I gave it a four star rating mainly because the players in the game effected it. Most of the time they want to do everything themselves removing any chances of teamwork.
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Summary: great
Review: this game is great. there are a lot of levels, weapons and characters to keep you busy and very interested. a must buy
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Summary: Simply The Greatest!!!!
Review: This game is simply one of the best RPS games that I have played to date. It ranks up there with Unreal Tournament 2003,Black hawk down,and Half life. You can go on missions,and can use a good number of weapons to help you and your AI team,accomplish your goals. You can drive a jeep,tank,all-terrain transport vech,various airplanes,and boats. You can man the Anti-aircraft guns on a battleship.Your AI team members,will get into your vech,and man the guns in your vech,if they have guns. After fraging a AI or real player in multiplayer games,you can pickup and use the ammo,and weapon,but you must put down,the one you were previously carrying. What makes this game even better is the ability to set up a LAN game,or even better play on the Internet,with up to 64 players. I use my dial-up modem,and only have been kicked off twice for slow ping rate. Find a server with a slower ping rate,and you can play for hours,this is what i did. Dsl or cable modems,usually donot have this problem. Install GameSpy arcade,upgrade your BF1942 at the official website (takes about 1hr.13min on dial-up),and you are ready to play on-line.
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Summary: Fun Game, but RIDDLED with technical (and other) problems
Review: The game designers did a good job creating a fun game, but a HUGE number of technical issues make this game overly fustrating.
My BIGGEST gripe is the copy protection. In a BRILLIANT move that transfers the burden of piracy from the software company to the end user, EA uses a network key in addition to needing the original CD. I can't tell you how infuriating it is to try to jump into a game only to be kicked off by the message "CD KEY IN USE". Some pirate out there gets to play while I, who paid for the game, suffer the consequences. Brilliant EA- just simply brilliant.
BF1942 (currently version 1.31) is full of bugs. It will play for about 5 minutes and crash on me two or three times, with no error message, before I can get through a whole game. One of the included maps crashes on me constantly- I have never been able to complete it. EA tech support is not much help either. They suggest running BF1942 from a clean boot without running anything else before. This does help. If I run another game, McAfee, Outlook, or Internet Explorer, before BF1942, BF1942 will crash constantly until I reboot.
The menu system is horrid. The server browser has very little filtering, no favorites, and is locked to 640x480. Some of the in-game player-player options are even worse. If you want to add a player to your buddy list, you have to open a text console, type game.listPlayers, scroll to find the player ID number that matches your friend's name, then type game.addPlayerToBuddyList #. Then, the the server loads a new map, you have to do the whole thing over again. The voting interface is the same way.
When everything is working perfectly, it is a fun game, but you'll need a beefy CPU, GF4 or newer gfx card, broadband, and find a server with pleanty of bandwidth (It's fairly common to see players jumping around from lag). BF is definately a resource hog.
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Summary: Varies between incredible and maddening
Review: I once heard that the thing about atomic blasts is that if you can see the explosion its probably too late, youre dead. I find that that saying is kinda like this game, if you see other people its probably too late, youre dead. Now I have played many a fps multiplayer game, from Quake to MOHAA, but this game is different. You can have enormous fun in this game if you are lucky, and it is that luck which really weighs heavy in this game. To sum up the whole multiplayer experience, basically you run really far to die really quickly. Youll spawn in the middle of nowhere and have to run for ten miles to get to the battle to die from some shot out of nowhere in a heartbeat. Only to repeat the process. Never in a game has the phrase "THAT WAS UTTER BS" been said so many times. So while you may get to do something totally fun, the other 80% of the time youre running for safety just to get shot along the way. If they could make MOHAA in this format (larger maps and vehicles) then that would be great. Until then Ill just deal with this games funky physics and funky gameplay... that 20% is so addictive it almost makes it all seem worth while. Oh boy I cant wait to spawn into a shooting gallery again!
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Summary: Great game
Review: I love this game the maps are large and very openended. AI is good and controls are easy to learn.
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Summary: Fast open ended action
Review: An extremely fun pick me up game for a quick action fix. Has very open ended gameplay. Not for the type who like realism or team play though. This is a very clan oriented game. Pros:
Open ended
team play
Use of vehicles and different classes for foot soldier
Desert Combat Mod (quickly becoming the next Counter-Strike) Cons:
Not realistic just an action game
buggy sometimes
Need a fairly powerful Computer
Single Player is just sad
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Summary: Cool Game!!!!
Review: This game is cool!!! It has great graphics, realistic battles, neat vehicles, and more. This is a WWII game, you acting as a soldier in the Japanese, American, Russian, German, or British army. You have a choice of being 1 of 5 types of soldiers: medic, assualt, engineer, anti tank, and scout. You have a machine gun, healing equipment, a knife, and some grenades as a medic. An assualt gets a knife, machine gun, handgun, and grenades. Engineer gets rifle, mines, wrench (to repair vehicles), explosive, and knife. Anti tank gets bazooka, handgun, grenades, and knife. Lastly, scout gets sniper rifle, handgun, binoculars, grenades, and a knife. Very accurate!! Has the battles of Iwo Jima, Battle of the Bulge, Omaha Beach, Battle of the Midway, Wake Island, Operation Battleaxe, and more. Not good for people with slow processors!! Can freeze if you don't have at least a 800 mhz processors. You can fly planes, bombers, drive a jeep, fire some shells in a tank, explore the underwater world with a submarine, command an anti aircraft gun, and command a large sheller. A must for WWII buffs!!!
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