Developer: Digital Illusions CE
Platform: PC
Release Year: 2002
Stephen's Rating: n/a
Battlefield 1942 is an online team based first person shooter.
Basic Plot
There is no plot. The setting is the year 1942 during World War II. Each military campaign is based on a real life battle which occurred in the war.
Teams were either Allied or Axis powers within the game.
Gameplay
The game was primarily a first person shooter in which two teams battled to control objectives and take each other out. Similar to Counter-Strike teams had objectives on top of shooting each other such as holding control points to achieve victory.
The focus of the game was on team co-operation. Teams were large compared to similar games in the genre with 64 players broken up into two teams of 32 a fairly common number. The mechanic of having to "hold" control points enhanced the necessity to work well as a team.
Holding control points had a number if in-game benefits including slowing down the number of reinforcements the enemy team had, and spawning vehicles which players could take into battle for an added advantage.
One of the common game modes was conquest. A team lost by no longer having any players on the board. Players could respawn as long as they controlled at least one control point, so the way to achieve victory was to take all of the control points and then kill off any remaining players.
Positives
Nice focus on co-operation and team work. Lots of players, big epic games.
Negatives
I found the weapons (as in most WWII games) to be quite clunky and unsatisfying to use. Perhaps some creative licence could have been used to make it all a bit more interesting and engaging.
Memorable Moments
I don't think I ever played this game against real people, just the AI, so I don't feel justified in giving it a ranking.
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