Battlefield 1942

by Electronic Arts

Product Features

• Immerse yourself in intense WWII flight action as you make your way through the ranks of an elite fighter squadron.
• Go deep behind enemy lines as you battle for victory in the European and Asian theaters of war.
• Take command of Allied troops during the hellish battles of WWII as you struggle to wrest victory from the hands of the Fascists.
• Wage war online from dark jungles to villages on the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
• Master the weapons of warfare including pongee sticks and booby traps.

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000BFPAPY
• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 1.2 x 7.5 inches ; 8.3 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: October 24, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (107 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,621 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #66 in Video Games > PC Games > Action > Shooter
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: PC | Edition: Complete Collection

Amazon.com Product Description

Battlefield 1942: The Complete Collection is the ultimate FPS experience. Included are all three Battlefield expansion packs in addition to the original: Battlefield 1942, Battlefield Vietnam, Secret Weapons over Normandy, and Battlefield 1942: The Road to Rome. From the beaches of Normandy to the rock n' roll of Vietnam, every mission is available for a quick attack or an overnight multiplayer marathon.

In Battlefield 1942, you're a WWII soldier on a true-to-life battlefield, equipped with weapons that look and sound authentic, able to storm the beaches on foot or seamlessly jump into and out of any of 35 vehicles of war. The depth is incredible. While on foot, you play as one of five specialized classes (assault, medic, scout, antitank, or engineer) with varying equipment and abilities. The choice of vehicles ranges from a selection of tanks, jeeps, and other fairly standard mechanized land vehicles to exotic craft like battleships, submarines, and dive bombers. Best of all, you can pit yourself against your fellow man in objective-based online battles in four distinct WWII theaters of war: North Africa, South Asia Pacific, Western Europe, and Eastern Europe. This is everything that World War II Online should have been. This is Tribes 2 with better code, graphics, control--everything, and without the cheesy sci-fi trappings. This out-WWIIs Medal of Honor and Return to Castle Wolfenstein. This game is like the ultimate sandbox, with all the best toys.

Battlefield Vietnam: The Battlefield franchise enters a new era equipped with more firepower, modernized weaponry and vehicles, and a deeper infantry experience from the jungles to the beaches of Vietnam. From villages on the Ho Chi Minh Trail to the city streets of Hue wage modern warfare as the United States or North Vietnamese Army (NVA).

Secret Weapons over Normandy: Join a secret squad of pilots dedicated to thwarting the most heinous plans of the Third Reich. Fly over 20 authentic aircraft across 30 daring missions in this new WWII action-flyer. Lawrence Holland, the legendary creator of Star Wars X-Wing, Star Wars Tie Fighter, and Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe returns with an exhilarating new game of action and intrigue. Can you be trusted with the most dangerous secrets of the war?

Battlefield 1942: The Road to Rome: Battlefield 1942: The Road to Rome is a multiplayer-focused expansion pack for more exciting WWI combat action. You'll battle in the Italian and Sicilian campaigns of the war, on six new maps and real world missions like Operation Husky (Sicily) and the battles for Anzio and Monte Cassino. Use 8 new vehicles including the German BF-110 and British Mosquito fighter bombers to lead two new fighting forces - The French Legionnaires and Italian forces. You can even work with 3 new weapons - A rifle grenade launcher, the British Sten SMG and bayonets!

Product Description

Real war action and strategy / Combat Enemies / Pick sides and see how you might have changed history / ESRB T = Teen Stats, rankings, and awards system drives collaborative play

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

116 of 126 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Big BANG for your BUCK! (note: you don't need to read the whole review), January 21, 2006

By 

Ren Höek "rat owner" (Canada) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Battlefield 1942: The Complete Collection (CD-ROM)

Ok, I love WWII fps games, I'm going through that phase I guess. I've played Call of Duty and Medal of Honour and I was surprised and somewhat disappointed in myself for not trying Battlefield 1942 yet-especially considering I love multiplayer. So I decided it was time I got Battlefield and since I always end up buying the expansion packs anyway, I figured I might as well get the Battlefield 1942: WWII Anthology. However when Christmas rolled around I saw this, the Complete Collection, on the shelf for the same price, in fact its even cheaper than the Anthology on Amazon!!!
Well, I got it for Christmas and it is one b****in' game pack! You get Battlefield 1942 v1.6, Battlefield 1942: The Road To Rome, Battlefield 1942: Secret Weapons of WWII and Battlefield Vietnam v1.2 (I think its basically the Redux version) AND Battlefield Vietnam: WWII Mod, Battlecraft Vietnam (a map editor)and Battlecraft 1942.*Take a breath*. It takes longer to read how much you get than it does to buy it! I mean WOW! This gives you a total of 8 disks!
...Ok, now that I've gotten that out of my system, I'm going to give you some info on the installation. This may sound stupid but I'm doing to prepare you for what to expect because I ran into a problem. First of all, you open the case (which is basically 4 times as thick as a DvD case) to find 6 of the disks piled on top of each other on the disk holder space moulded out of the case, leaving 2 of the disks loose in one of those paper disk cover each, and two manuals (the 1942 games manual-still referred to as the Anthology by the manual itself-and the Vietnam manual). Now, you put the first disk in the drive and simply check off all the games and features you want to install (just check them all off). Simple enough? Well here is where the problem comes in: when the game asks you for the games' number codes. It tells you to find them on the back of the case, whereas they are actually on the back of the Anthology manual. But the biggest problem is it gives you the numbers all mixed up! I'll tell you them in order and what they REALLY are in order: it lists the Battlefield 1942, The Road to Rome, Secret Weapons of WWII and then Vietnam. They are actually Vietnam, Battlefield 1942, The Road to Rome and Secret Weapons of WWII. There, now when it says you're number code is invalid, don't chuck it in the garbage like I almost did, they are just scrambled up. It'll take you only about an hour or so to install everything and you're ready to play single player. To play multiplayer, you need to download the v1.61 patch for 1942 and the v1.21 patch for Vietnam (because otherwise you can't find a server). Now you're all set and you had better set some time out of you're schedule cause its gunna take you a week at least just to try all the levels and all the games! You can try and learn how to use the map editor too, however I have no idea how but I'm happy with the levels I have.

Now if you already have an idea of what the games are like, then you might as well stop reading now because I may ramble on for a long time...

-Battlefield 1942 PROS: This is an awesome one to kick things off, it is what I like to call the Grand Theft Auto of WWII games. You go everywhere and do everything. You can play on African, Western Europe, Eastern Europe and Pacific fronts! That includes you're favourite battles like Omaha Beach, Battle of the Bulge, Stalingrad, Kursk, Iwo Jima, Guadalcanal, Battle for Britain, Berlin, etc, etc. You can play as America, Britain, Russia, Germany, Japan, and Canada (on one level: the Liberation of Caen. This is cool, cause games tend to neglect Canada's contribution). Soldiers can choose different kits: Scout (carries a sniper rifle and binoculars to direct artillery using Battlefield's unique system where the scout plants a "camera" using the binoculars, and artillery weapons can use the "camera" to see where their shots are landing), Assault (heavy sub machine gun such as the BAR. This is the basic anti-personnelle kit), Anti-Tank (bazooka or panzershreck), Medic (light sub machine gun such as the Thompson and a medic kit. The medic can heal him/herself as well as others. A comrade's health is indicated next to his/her name and if they yell for a medic they well appear as a red cross on the map), and Engineer (rifle, remote demolition charges, anti-vehicle mines and a wrench for vehicle repair and mine removal. The vehicle's health appears next the occupant's name in the same way health appears to the medic. Plus, the best part, you can drive ANYTHING! This includes jeeps, halftracks, infantry transporters, tanks, planes (including fighter planes with little bombs and larger bombers planes), anti-aircraft guns, anti-naval guns, artillery tanks(scouts direct your fire, its pretty cool and artillery includes Stalin's Organs!), mg 42's and 30 cal. machine guns (that includes ones on top of vehicles like tanks, therefore more than one person can use one vehicle), beach landing craft, battleships, aircraft carriers, submarines-AAHHH! I'm having a heart attack! you really do get to use ALL of those! No other WWII game has that, and I thought the just tanks and jeeps in Call of Duty: United Offensive were good! This game friggin' slaps other games in the face and pees on them while they are down, when it comes to vehicle warfare. The levels are large and impressive, and a lot of ppl can play at a time, a lot being, say over 50! And it also features a campaign mode (original 1942 is the only one with this) where you play through the levels as Allies or Axis. You get computer allies who know how to use the vehicles, and you can use them in multiplayer to fill in empty spaces that human players haven't filled. The game has excellent music, good, solid graphics, and good sound (not as amazing as COD but still good) and you don't need a top-of-the-line machine to run it, look at me, I can run it easily on a Windows ME with Rogers Cable Internet with a Radeon 9200 128 MB video card. The feel is reasonably realistic in that you carry one main weapon, one pistol, grenades and a knife (except the engineer). you can switch kits but there is none of this "carry 9 weapons around with you" junk and I like that. Plus, the crosshairs spread apart as you move to create a more realistic feel. Game types include Objective (Battle of Britain only), Team Death Match, Capture the Flag, Conquest and Coop. Conquest requires you or members of your team to capture/defend certain strategic points on the maps (it is the most common game mode) and coop lets you, and other human player who may join your server, team up with computer players and fight against other computer players in conquest mode. The AI is not the best but decent enough, they are smart enough to go for your objectives (most of the time) and the medics will actually heal you. Of course, lets not forget about the mods. It is as if Battlefield 1942 was made for mods, it accepts them so well and you can easily switch from one mod to the next with the custom game option. There are many mods you can download such as the popular Desert Combat, the ludicrous but fun pirates mod, the Canadian Call to Arms (unfortunately no one else has it), definitely check out Battlefield 1918 to play one of the very few WWI FPS experiences in existence (it's incredibly well done and realistic too), and if your bothered by the inaccuracies in the game (as I will get into soon), download the Arsenal mod, the Battlegroup 1942 mod (another very well done mod), and/or the Forgotten Hope mod (excellent and popular) for a boost in maps, weapons, vehicles, graphics and historical accuracy.
-1942 CONS: As great as this game is, it isn't perfect. Multiplayer can get laggy if there are too many people on a server (however that goes for any game and this one can handle quite a few people) and very occasionally the game will freeze up on you or crash to windows. The single player is really just multiplayer with computer players (instant battle), even the campaign mode is just a line up of the levels with a bit of story about the battle as it loads, there is no story plot and every level is conquest (you take control of certain points on the map and try to hold them)in campaign. If you are looking for a storyline and not just a multiplayer type game consider Call of Duty rather than this game. The AI can get annoying some times because your AI teammates will slack occasionally and make you do all the work and they are sometimes too accurate with their shots (sniping with pistols is soo annoying). Single Player also leaves some maps out that you can only play in multiplayer, like the liberation of Caen (some mods fix this though). Other countries were left out such as Australia, Greece, Austria, Poland, India, actual Africans (but lets face it, there are too many for the game to cover everyone, plus some mods will add a couple new armies).Its not as user friendly as other games are, but good enough. While switching between levels, the game goes to windows and boots back up again and this gets a tad annoying if your level setting make your games too short. There are no crosshairs to aim with when you switch to 3rd person view so you need to switch back and forth as a vehicle. When you run out of ammo, you have to reload yourself by pressing reload instead of auto reload (of course this feels realistic so I don't mind at all). Although the existing weapons are fairly realistic, certain armies are equipped incorrectly. Everyone uses the exact same sniper and rifle (except US and Japanese who have semi-automatic rifles most of the time, and the Germans with 98K's), it is especially bad at equipping Russia, by giving them MP 13's, bazookas, and the wrong rifles. Plus cannon shells and bazooka missiles have to be aimed well above the target since the shells have such poor range (but, as I said, there... Read more ›

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best *MULTIPLAYER* ww2 game I've ever played, January 14, 2007

By 

Col Kev (Texas, USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Battlefield 1942: The Complete Collection (CD-ROM)

This is IT for MULTIPLAYER ww2 FPS gaming. BF1942 is NOT, nor was it ever intended to be, a single player game (nor was bfVietnam). I prefer the ww2 genre to the modern stuff, so perhaps that's why I still like good old bf1942 and bfVietnam over bf2, halo, etc...

The graphics are great, there are still several servers to play on, the official sites along w/patches are still there, and the gameplay is just amazing. Accuracy depends on whether you're moving or not and you have to learn how much lead is required for the distance to your target (just like in most other FPS that don't have the stupid auto-locking type of aim). Only new players complain they can't hit anything while getting one-shotted. But that's not fair because it's the same w/every FPS game till you learn the mechanics of that game.

What's so fun is both the capture-the-flag(spawn point) gameplay and, most of all, the fact that every vehicle (ship, plane, tank, gun emplacement, you name it) is usable by YOU. No stationary or pre-defined pathing type vehicles. No eye-candy-only tanks, jeeps, planes - they are are all useable by you - and you've been trained in ALL of them (lol).

Lots of extras in the game like the function key voice system (that types a message in chat but simultaneously plays the voice over your speakers - in the native tongue of your team (Russian, Japanese, German, Vietnamese, English w/a British accent, etc...).

I don't play video games near as often as I used to, but when I do, I still reach for my bf1942 CD's 9 times out of 10. For ww2 multiplayer FPS games, this is the only choice imo. For single player only I don't know what to say - I hate single player FPS scenarios. After playing 16 v 16 (or more depending on the server) real live players, I just can't enjoy single player FPS games anymore.

17 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Collection Ever, April 21, 2006

By 

stormtrooper7777 - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Battlefield 1942: The Complete Collection (CD-ROM)

This game is the best collection ever! You get the 2002 game of the year battlefield 1942, and it's two great expansions,Battlefield 1942, The Road to Rome, And Battlefield 1942, Secret Weapons of WWII. And you also get Battlefield Vietnam, which is my favorite, where you can drive and fly vehicles,from the Vietnam era, while listening to music from the Vietnam era. These games never get boring, so they're guaranteed to stay fun for a long time. If you like FPS's, and the ability to drive and fly war vehicles, then this is the game for you.

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