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Battlefield 1942: Secret Weapons of WWII Expansion Pack

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If you find yourself worrying about the fact the game has been out only a year, and there are already two expansions, just cancel that. And I'll tell you why:

First off, secret weapons of WWII although an expansion, feels at times like I whole new game. It brings things to the multiplayer mega-seller that were missing from the previous two releases, the game feels more complete with this add-on. (as opposed to the last expansion, Road to Rome, which left me wondering why I bought it.) Secret weapons brings not only a slew of new and cool weapons like, jetpacks, AA tanks, shotguns, Motercycles, and others, but also new gameplay modes. There are now objectives to certain maps, which makes the battles seem more meaningfull.

I personally enjoy this game simply for the shotguns, jets, and aa tanks, but everyone has their personal favorite addition to the battlefield world. If your looking for improved graphics, no luck there, its just an expansion, but if your getting bored with the old maps, and weapons this game is for you.

PROS:
More in depth maps.
More weapons including: 2 different kinds of jets, a cargo plane that is a spawn point, a tank with a naval gun attached to it, an aa tank, motercycle with a gun turret on the passanger carriage, shotguns, and more.
Objective based maps. (sweet)

CONS:
Not enough additions, I thought there might be more.
Too many glitches left untouched
Maps sometimes too small for the fast moving jet planes, making it hard to concentrate on firing, and watching the map limits at first.

Personally, Id say this game is worth your money.

This Battlefield 1942 expansion pack is a very good one. The weapons are better, quite a few more vehicles, the enemy is more challenging, and several other new things are great. The drawbacks of this game are some of the following:

1. As one user stated, some maps are too small for fast moving aircraft.

2. The game alot of times runs slow, even on a good system.

3. There are only 8 new levels. Four or five of them aren't that cool.

4. The super heavy tank with the AA gun is too slow.

5. The intro shows the tank with the missles shooting them at very fast speeds. The actual shooting speed in the real game is about 1/4 as fast as it shows them traveling in the intro.

Overall though, this a very fun game. The jetpack lets you jump onto tall buildings, and shoot down on people. I love it! For $20.00, this is a very fun and great game. Just make sure you have a good system when you buy it. The best levels buy the way are Hellendoorn and The Gothic Line. The worst level is Kbely Airfield, and it is terribly boring.

By the way, did you notice the new blood effects when you are shot or when you are shooting the enemy soldiers. Check it out!

This is an awesome game!!!!!! There are awesome new maps, vehicles and weapons!!!!! My personaly favorite vehicle is probably the new Cargo Plane. You can even SPAWN on one of those! It really packs a punch in the Axis defenses!!! Tons of guys can parachute out at a time right on to an Axis control points! But it has 1 weakness. Since it is so big, guys in AA guns, atop of Flakpanzers, and in Wasserfall command pillboxes on the ground, can easily hit it. The Wasserfalls are missles you guide with your mouse. Their good too! (: Now, before I leave, I just wanna go over some pros and cons.

Pros

Cool graphics
Awesome intro
Great sound and music
JETPACK!!! And other cool weapons and vehicles
Awesome new maps!!!!(My favorite is Telemark Research Base)
And many more pros!

Cons

None



So. What are you wating for? Don't just watch an incandescent computer screen when you can buy this awesome game NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GET IT!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is a superb expansion. I thought the original was fun, but this is GREAT! The new weapons rock, as well as the motorbikes and bombers. This is a HUGE improvement on the original, and definately should be purchased.

This game is great. In this game you will get the Mauser Carbine with optional grenade launcher, Gewher Sniper Rifle, Gewher Machine gun, Bren LMG, Flakpanzer, BMW or Harley Davidson motorcycle with turret and sidecar, Commando Knife, Commando Raft, LVT-2 Water Buffalo, Sturmtiger, Natter Rocket Plane, and the American M3 Grant, Jetpack, Wasserfall Guided Rocket, McDonnell, Armstrong Whitworth AW-52, Horton HO 229, C-47 Cargo Plane, Sherman Tank With T-34 Calliope, T95/T28 Super Heavy Tank With AA gun,and the Schwimmwagen. You also get such levels as; Telemark Reserch Lab, Essen, Eagle Nest, Peenemuende, The Gothic Line, Hellendoorn, Mimoyecques, and Kbely Airfield. And it's all historically accurate. :)

The SWWWII pack is a good idea for the series, but I think it could have been a better game. The expansion doesn't add anything to the campaign mode and you have to play the battles as an instant to use the map. The maps themselves aren't bad but the AI is just as dumb as the original. With generally the same weapons and vehicles except for an occasional new thing, it is basically the same game with just different maps. I would recommend getting this expansion, but buy it in the collection so you aren't paying full price for this game.

nels larson: expansion pack 1942 this expansion pack adds lots of neat items and areas to explore. I really liked the jet pack you can wear and fly in short bursts while shooting at the same time.

battlefield 1942 is one of the best games that ea games ever made. now,we get a add-on that makes it even cooler! weapons adds 8 new maps,new guns, and two words. ROCKET PACK. yes! a rocket pack! to top that, the new mode is some much fun that its all you will want to play for a LONG TIME! buy battlefield 1942, buy this and grab the new patch, and your ready to roll!

Secret Weapons is the second expansion pack in this popular series. I believe this one is better than "The Road To Rome". You have more new maps, more weapons and more vehicles. There are 8 or 9 new maps you can play on instant battle or on-line, though it seems 2 or 3 of the new maps are quite laggy when your not playing on-line. But the new maps are very cool are harder to beat than the original maps. and some of these maps have an awesome feel to them. A couple of maps take place at night, and when you are coming up on the battle from a distance and see mortar shells lighting up the night sky and here the Stealth Bomber but can't see it until it passes by a moon lit cloud, it is absolutely awesome.There are only a of things I don't like. One, you can hardly ever find these new maps in an on-line game. Two, some of the new vehicles (like one of the new allie tanks), you drive and have turret to fire from, but the other guy rides in the top of the tank gets unleash a barrage of missiles and only he gets the credit for it. Three, I still don't like when your reinforcement ticket counts down because you don't have half of the flags covered. I can see it counting down if you own all except the main flag, but not for half. Other than that, this game offers more to this fun game. And with the release of new patches (it has become easier to download them finally), they give you new maps. The most recent new map, Attack of The Phillipines, is very cool. There are at least 4 new maps I have seen, so hopefuly they keep releasing new ones (though you can only play these on-line), So buy this and enjoy.

should have been $10 but will provide several weeks of fun but then maps get boring. Better off just playing the game without the Expansion!