This is one of the best World War two games ever.
In the game you can play as the Americans, British, Russians or Germans. You also can be four different characters. You can be a Scout, Assault, Anti-Tank, Medic, or an Engineer. A Scout is your sniper he can snipe people out or he can use his binoculars and call for artillery which is a good way to take out armoured vehicles. An Assault is like your leader. He has a heavy machine gun. A Anti-Tank is what its name is. A person who carries a bazooka to take out tanks or other vehicles. A Medic is the person who heal your teammates. Although his main role is to heal your team his submachine gun is a very nice way to take out enemies. Now the Engineer. The Engineer has many purposes. He can lay or disarm mines also he can blow up or repair vehicles. Even though his rifle does not have a good rate of fire it has good range and precision. An Engineer can be offensive or defensive. In the game you can also pilot a variety of vehicles, like tanks, jeeps, half tracks, planes, and ships.
In Campaign mode there are two different game types you can run into. There is Conquest or Assault. Conquest is when you have two teams that have roughly the same amount of soldiers and there are multiple flags on the map, that start off neutral except for two that are bases for both teams which cant be taken. The object is to control as many flags as you can and to make your opponents soldiers reach zero. If you have more flags then your opponent or if you kill a soldier there number of soldiers decrease and vice versa. You win the game until your opponent reaches zero. Assault is where you have and a offensive team and a defensive. It shares same similarities as Conquest except for a couple differences. In Assault the defensive team has all the flags at the start of the game and the offensive team has more soldiers. The offencive team continues to lose soldiers until they have captured one the enemies flags but if they capture them all the automatically win. There is only one base and the offensive team has it.
On-line has additional game types. It has CO-OP, Team Death Match, and Capture the flag but you can still play Conquest or Assault. CO-OP is where you can get your buddies and play Campaign mode with the AI. Team Death Match is where you kill your opponents while you try not to get killed. Capture the flag is where the two teams go to the opponents base and take the flag and bring it back to there base but you can only score if your flag has not been taken. If your flag has been taken you can kill the flag holder and he will drop the flag, touch it and it will go back to your base. AssConquest and ault have the same rules as in Campaign.
Battlefield 1942 is one of the best games I have ever played and its great fun if you like killing noobs.