Battlefield 1942

The Good
So many ways to play, will you snipe from afar or charge in with a machine gun. Graphics are ok, models are good,locations are large and varied.

The Bad
sound issues, it doesn't seem to like some creative sound cards. Sometimes crashes to the desktop. Call me boring (and you probably will) but I thought war was about team work, play virtually any online game ond everybody is running round like headless chucks. Tanks will survive a lot longer with infantry support, like wise infantry needs armoured support to attack heavily defended or fortified positions. Attacks work better if you soften the enemy with some air support. Artillery is woefully under used as no-one wants to be spotter, or when you are a spotter no-one is manning the arty!. The longer range of the engineers rifle needs to be backed up with the fire power of the submachine guns and machine guns of the other classes. Anti tank classes need to be protected from infantry whilst they get into position to take out the tanks. Realistically this is all too much to hope for, from a bunch of people who don't know each other. But it would be nice to see some squad action not just 64 individuals.

The Bottom Line
As a war sim it's not all that good, but as a war based multiplayer game it's the best you can buy!