With shallow gameplay, confusing controls, and general blandness, even the amazing destructability can't save this game.

User Rating: 5 | Battlefield 1943 X360
Do I like first person shooters? Absolutely. Do I like the fact that you can destroy so much? You bet. So why do I think Battlefield 1943 ends up being a flop? Well, where the heck do I start?
First off, I hope you enjoy the theme music in the title screen, because that's the only music track you're going to hear throughout the whole game. Gun fire and voice work livens up the game a little bit, but there's nothing too special about it. New to the game? Well tough, because the labels for the controls in the options menu is barely legible.
The controls are ridiculous foreign; why not have something similar to Halo or Call of Duty or even Left 4 Dead? When Y is to switch buttons in other games, it's the melee button, and stays as your weapon until you have to switch back to your primary weapon using the RB button. The B button to get into vehicles and pick up weapons, but why not something more familiar like the X button? The controls can't be customized like other games, so get used to what you've got.
Speaking of weapons, there are only six weapons: the rifle, the sniper, the machine gun, the pistol, the knife (which shouldn't even count) and the RPG. That's it. No real variety. The vehicles take too long to get used to; the van moves too fast to control, the tank can't be ridden on unless you are driving or using the turrent, and the airplanes way to confusing to control, let alone turn. Why not simple move one of the analog sticks to turn and on to change altitudes? Once someone can control the plane, it's not even fair that the soldiers on the ground are helpless to any aerial assaults. Why not have any underground areas for strategy?
And the way you die, now that's lame because you just fall over and watch the score screen until you respawn. Why is there no kill cam to know what exactly happened? And why the heck is there no vibration in the controller when you're getting shot at? It detracts the expirience and it just feels like something is missing out of the whole game. The maps are massive and way too big for too few. At times I found myself running around for five minutes with nothing happening at all. Next second, I see a flash of red showing I'm being shot at and then I die. You can even spawn near an enemy player, leading to a cheap death, since the respawn positioning menu is downright confusing to figure out. Then I get to do it all over again. Yay! The gameplay feels unfulfilling and unrelieving unless you're dominating everyone else, and it still doesn't feel much different.
All in all, the game itself isn't horrible, but there's very little if any appeal to it whatsoever besides the destructability factor. The controls are uneven, the weapon choice and gameplay feels shallow, and the overall expirience just doesn't always make the cut. This game is fifteen dollars? I would have been disappointed with my spending choice if this was fifteen cents.