BF1942 is a simple an arcady game. You can find that almost all of the weapons, units & vehicles are historically incorrect. For example, the Japanese used Katanas not knives, they certainly did not use scoped Kar98s. Russians used the PPSH-41, not some phoney other SMG. Overall, gameplay is fine. I like the vehicles and planes. But I strongly suggest that you get "Forgotten Hope" which is a mod for BF1942, It adds several historically correct articles to the game. Yeah BF1942 is better then BF2 is some ways. BF1942 is like DOD:S on drugs. BF1942 is an arcade version of Red Orchestra. Graphics is decent considering it came out some years ago. AI is somewhat pleasing, weapon sounds are cool. Expansions for the game like Secret Weapons of WW2 and Road to Rome are good too. Sucks that they used some of Medal Of Honour's sounds.
Battlefield 1942 (BF1942) and its add-ons, The Road to Rome (RTR) and Secret Weapons of WWII (SW), comprise the Anthology GOTY Edition (patched to v1.6 during installation) re-release which I purchased recently. Being a... Read Full Review
After Call of Duty and Medal of Honor we all expected that there would be no more WW2 shooters until Battlefield came along. Battlefield 1942 is an online shooter that allows you to go into any vehicles you see or just s... Read Full Review
