Battlefield: 1942
by Electronic Arts
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Video Game Reviews of Battlefield: 1942
Customer Review: Single-Player isn't that great; it's the multiplayer that you want!
Summary: 5 Stars
You should expect this to be a WWII game. Now your objectives is simple: destroy your enemy by taking the camps (or spawn points). This is a multiplayer game mostly rather than a CoD (Call of Duty) game.
Good: I really enjoyed playing the Allies because they were the heroes. I never really enjoyed playing the Axis as much. Don't just in the ESRB rating to have blood for there is no blood in the game. If you have a cable connection, you can start your own server online. I have a cable connection, so I can play a game with 64 players! You can have A.I in the game, but it is very exciting to have 64 players. You can also grab weapons from dead soldiers, drive and fry vehicles, and pick out many maps from real-time history. Also, Germans speak German, Japanese speak Japanese, Russians speak Russian, and Britsh and American speak English.
Bad: I have noticed that the weapons don't look as authentic because just because the title says "1942" doesn't mean it starts in 1942; Some levels start in 1941 while others in 1945 and so on. The guns are the problem because they weren't used in the war or something. But maybe the Allies sent weaponry to the Russians (Since they are carrying American and British weapons) It is the only explanation. But I have never seen a Japanese carrying an StG 44. They weren't even invented at that time. That is a German weapon; but hey, games will always have mistakes.
Ugly: You must have a good computer to have fun because it can lag a lot and have 64 players or lower can add excitment but annoyance at the computer slowing down. I don't really mind the lag (slowing down) but it can get annoying when taking pictures of the game. Also, you have some pretty foul-mouthed online players but not as bad as Halo and some of the previous shooters. Also a few Americans when killed will use the D-word sometimes, but it isn't the f-word at least.
I give this game 4/5 for foul-mouthed players, inaccurate weapons, and having to use cable to play online.
Customer Review: Battlefield 1942
Summary: 5 Stars
Battlefield is the best online FPS since Counter-Strike. No doubt about that in my mind. The fact that you can controll any vehicle, man any weapon, and do whatever the hell you want is awesom. The maps are varried and each are fun to play. The weapons ok. Yes only ok. In the retail version, the Russians have the same weapons as the Americans. Since when did the Russians have a BAR? Another thing, there is no MI Garand in the retail version! What the hell is up with that??? The MI was the most used gun in United States Military History! (Later Patches give the M1 on the Pacific maps) These are all minor gripes, so here are the big ones...
Now while it is in fact a steller game it has its problems. For one, the system specs are WAY to high for how the game looks. It looks ok, but with games like UT2003 that came out at the same time, it looks old. There are some minor balancing issues with the weapons(which are changed in lator patches) But other then that, its awesom.
Concept- Make an epic online fragathon that is fun and easy to play.
Presintation- 9.0- The Menus are a bit odd and hard to navagate, but other then that, good.
Graphics- 8.4- The game looks believeable, but the system specs are way too high for how it looks.
Sound- 9.2- The sound is great. Could have used more abient sounds though
Playability- 9.7- All the vehicles are easy to use, except the airplanes. (You have to practice with those) Its not realistic, verry arcade like, but EXTREAMLY fun.
Entertainment- 9.4- Extreamly fun and impossible to put down. The best online multiplayer game right now.
Replay Value- 10- The single player is week, but that doesnt matter. Its all about multiplayer baby. Whith this good of multiplayer, who needs single player???
Customer Review: Wouldn't run
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought this game some days ago because no one would shut up about it in school. Everything went fine: The installation, the video options, no problems of any kind.
Until I tried to play multiplayer. The first time I got an "invalid version" problem. I tried everything but I couldn't get it to work.
I pressed the "Update" button on the autorun menu but it took me to the EA main site. I don't know how to procced from there. There are way too many "Pay money" "Register" "Download demo of other games" ads that I got lost. There is not even a "Downloads" section.
There are no phone numbers or email adresses on the manual or CD case. The single player mode of Battlefield 1942 is a complete joke so the game could only decorate my desk.
You know what I did? I traded it for Heroes III (A game older than me! No one else wanted this game, probably for the same problems I had) in school some hours ago. And you know what, I didn't need to press an update button or even got to websites to play it, and what's more important, the single player was fun!
Customer Review: World War II in a box!!! (Yes it is buggy... needs work)
Summary: 5 Stars
** Get the most complete Battlefield 1942 Game with add-ons by choosing Battlefield 1942: World War II Anthology. If it is not available then you need to get the three games in this pack - Battlefield: 1942, Battlefield 1942 Expansion: The Road to Rome and Battlefield 1942: Secret Weapons of WWII Expansion Pack that work out a little more expensive. Battlefield 1942: Deluxe Edition has 1942 original and Road to Rome. So all you need with the Deluxe Edition is to get Secret Weapons. To be honest the steepest it works out at is. The Anthology is $30.00 and is the same price as the Deluxe Edition plus Secret Weapons. Getting all three separately will cost you nearly $40.00 so get the best deal in bundle packs.**
Want to play the best war simulation? Go play the old Operation Flashpoint and pray that the spring 2006 Operation Flashpoint 2 deadline will be met with the best war multiplayer simulator ever conceived. Want to play a single player war game that matched the experience of Medal of Honour: Allied Assault? Then go play Call of Duty and get the expansion pack Call of Duty: United Offensive. Want to the play the best SWAT type tactical one on one? Then go get Half-Life 2 and play Counter-Strike. Fancy a futuristic sci-fi multiplayer with huge maps? Then get the latest Unreal Tournament. So what else is there? Well to be honest Battlefield 1942 is straight up probably one of the best multiplayer games I have played, but be warned, the simulation experience does call for infinite amounts of patients and the game is extremely buggy to install. There is very little good technical support except for what the community offers, updates can be patchy, people end up can't playing it, and it suffers from fatal spawn point easy target syndrome that has rendered many of the maps unplayable... however new maps are updated, but just don't expect the BF1942 community to be as responsive as let's say STEAM. The bottom line here is that even single player mode is not supported. The game comes pretty much as it is served so expect to spend more than a day, maybe a week, to get it to work on your machine with lots of google searches for your problem. The solutions should be found in forums troubleshooting guides. Be prepared for discs that don't appear to like firewalls, anti-virus checkers and other background processes. This is the game of games in terms of installation bugs and crashes. In short - Requires broadband INTERNET.
Single player like we said is not supported. Multiplayer is one big CAPTURE THE FLAG, but what a game of CTF! Problem right away is the lack of classes that looks restrictive but it is actually okay, with five types of soldiers to choose from - sniper, machine gun, rockets, medic, engineer... so it is closer to Team Fortress than Operation Flashpoint that allows full configuration of up to twenty classes. Having said that it does not reduce the impact of the game, but does leave the realm of simulation, deviating into more Unreal Tournament territory where there is very real possibility of just leaving your team behind and going on a frag-a-thon across the map. If you are into that sort of thing then maybe the more recent, but certainly not as good, Battlefield Vietnam, can offer you that type of solo bush mission multiplayer experience like Far Cry with lesser graphics, but if it is Pearl Harbor, Petersburg, German Forests, French Country, Operation Overlord, multiplayer style, where you can pilot lots of vehicles, and use a little team commands, then sir, Battlefield 1942 is really what you should be playing across that 1MB connection you got jacked into that modem.
So limiting by its nature of being a multiplayer only game, with a difficult install, that is quite old'ish by today's standards, still manages to provide the best World War II multiplayer entertainment you have ever seen with Operation Flashpoint beating it for realism and detail as a simulation, but this is the war game that people play online, and it still has quite a large community, meaning plenty of 60 (30/30) servers are still up and running with Battlefield 2 coming out sometime in 2005 (hopefully early) you can still live with getting this just because it offers world war II as you want to play it, on-line. I must say that even though I am an avid CS:S player, this one has stolen it for a bit. Battlefield 1942 really is worth it, after you get it running, and after you have the patients to actually play it like a solider ---- crawl for 2 minutes before sniping 3 enemy over the space of 10 minutes with guys above you on a score of 44... patients is the virtue while playing this if you want to win.... Or if you have the skill, grab a bomber and go drop some bouncers on a spawn building for mass kill. Personally I prefer to play to the sneaking sniper. You know I 0wned u. ?
Pros:
- Multiplayer must-have.
- Fairly realistic simulation experience that you will play again and again.
- The only World War II simulation worth playing on-line right now.
- Good game engine. Solid playing.
- Replaces Operation Flashpoint as best on-line war simulation game.
- Really big player numbers of servers.
Cons:
- Harsh reality of enduring install problems and updates.
- Expensive.
- Needs broadband.
- Spawn points have exploit bugs.
- No voice-com.
- Not much of a team communication interface either.
- 2002 graphics... but still nice. Models need work.
- There is a bit of a learning curve.
- Not as vast as Operation Flashpoint.
Customer Review: It will not run and there is no tech support
Summary: 1 Stars
This game looks like it should be fun, but it has just been 4 hours of frustration. I have a recent Sony Pentium P4 computer, a NVIDIA RIVA TNT 64 video card, the latest DirectX, 512 megs RAM, lots of disk space and it won't run. There is no help in the website or read me files. AND NO EMAIL ADDRESS FOR QUESTIONS OR FEEDBACK. Don't buy this.