Battlefield 1942 (PC)

---Intro---- "War is not pretty!" whoever said that never laid eyes on Battlefield 1942. In this first person shooter, you find yourself smack in the middle of World War II. It is one of the biggest multiplayer games out there today, surpassing games like Quake and Counter-Strike in popularity. ---Gameplay---- You can be one of several classes, including Medic, Support, Assault, Scout, and Engineer. Each has it's own perks and drawbacks and each class comes with it's own inventory of weapons and equipment. However, you can take the kit of any dead soldier on the battlefield. The whole game is basically a battle over territory, where ...

"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it." (George Orwell) Battlefield 1942 is unsurprisingly set in the middle of World War II and the fighting takes place in four main theatres of war - East and West Europe, Africa and the Pacific. Depending on where the battle takes place the player can choose to play as a soldier from one of the following four nations - America, Britain, Russia or Japan. Once you have decided upon your nation you then have to decide what type of soldier you wish to play as. There are five different types of soldier to choose from - Scout, Assault, Anti-Tank, Medic or Engineer. Soldiers carry different equipment ...

Battlefield is a title that EA kept under wraps well- when it came out everyone expected unreal torunament 2003 to completly demolish everything in the multiplayer stakes. It turns out the new kid on the block has completly demolished everything else in the multiplayer stakes. Technical aspects: Battlefield 1942 is a high specification monster: The minimum specifications quoted by EA: Pentium 3 or equivalent 500 MHz, 32MB graphics card and so on are a little bit wishful, and at these specs you will experience bad graphics, long loading times, slowdown and so on. Indeed, at only 500Mhz i am told the game is almost totally unplayable. Since there is ...