Battlefield 1942 was one of the first MP(multiplayer) FPS(First Person Shooter) to feature essentially all aspect warfare, you could fight in the air, on the sea, or on the ground in a variety of vehicles, and laid the groundwork that would help many a future FPS improve themselves, and is easily one of the great classic MP FPSs.
The Story:
There isn't any... because its a Multiplayer game it has settings not story, and the setting is World War II, the various theaters of war of WWII are the primary setting for all the different maps featured, there is a small info blurb for each map when playing single player campaign (which is merely playing the multiplayer with AI as opposed to players) but not much more outside of that.
The Gameplay:
This is a old first person shooter and in the infantry segments it shows as it feels slower and less accurate then modern games, but to be honest one doesn't play battlefield for the infantry combat, this game is all about its vehicles and it has a lot of them, airplanes, tanks, troop transports, jeeps,and numerous navel vehicles including aircraft carriers.
To start the ground vehicles, they are pretty simple to describe, the jeeps are unarmed fast moving vehicle, troop transports are slower but can protect, heal, and rearm soldiers and often have anti-infantry weapons mounted on it, Tanks are well, tanks, and are often only taken down by other tanks or quite a lot of bazooka fire.
Aircraft are in my opinion the best vehicles, which if you have played aircraft in games more recently its very different, the planes are slow propeller planes and can be hard to handle compared to most other aircraft in games, but once you learn the tricks of flying them they are amazing fun, not to mention they have dumb drop bombs, meaning you have to learn the proper timing to drop them on your target for maximum damage, and there is nothing more satisfying to see you get a ton of hits after a successful bombing run.
the final type of vehicle is navel, such as cruisers, submarines, destroyers, and aircraft carriers, yes your carrier getting bombed by the enemy? hop in and drive it away to protect it, navel combat is interesting and sometimes exciting, slow and deliberate seeing you just sunk their battleship is amazingly satisfying.
All in all the gameplay is dated but very unique and interesting.
The Graphics:
The Graphics are dated, very dated, not bad and back in its day it was amazing top of the line graphics, its not so old its hard to get past to play the game, but you'll notice its age.
The Community:
As this is a multiplayer game it has a community you'd be playing with them, its main server got shut down awhile ago but it recently became free on origin to play for its ten year anniversary, as a result its community is very big now and until EA decides to remove it from Origin (which considering their average practices that seems very likely to happen) it will probably have a decent community as its a very low computer requirements you'll see those with low power PCs playing it as its a great game.
Overall:
As with my Assassin's Creed retrospective I'm going to review it based off of the other games in the series so it'll get a 1-8 (1 being worst, 8 being the best) ranking to compare it. and its only my opinion and trust me you'll find many differing opinions on this regard, I rate it 7/8 its a great old classic game and with its FREE rerelease on origin it now has a renewed community and its awesome, the only game I feel is better over it is battlefield 3, which we will eventually get to.
Rating:7/8
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