The best multiplayer experience you will ever have.

User Rating: 9 | Battlefield 1942 PC
Battlefield 1942 is a WW2 game were you get to play as a soldier on any side: allies and axis. There is a single player campaign but the game mostly focuses on multiplayer. You can play as different classes of soldier such as scout, assault, engineer, etc. There are 5 armies in this game that you can be apart of: Americans, British, Soviets, Japanese and Germans.

Battlefield 1942 is possibly the best multiplayer game to come out ever. You play as any of the major armies of WW2, up to 64 players online, and lots of servers, even though it came out in 2002, it still has a huge online base. The single player campaign is fairly decent. You play through dozens of missions, spanning through 4 different theaters of operation: Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North Africa, and the Pacific. You can use a lot of weapons including the BAR, MP40, KAR98, Colt .45 and many more. Along with that is 35 drivable vehicles including jeeps, tanks, ships, and airplanes.

The goal of the game is to reduce your opponents tickets to zero. You and your opponent start out with a certian number of tickets and when you or a teammate dies, you lose a ticket. There are also a number of control points to capture, if your team captures and holds the majority of the control points, the tickets will slowly drop. Its hard to do this in single player mode because of the stupid AI. But the online play is even more difficult because your playing against real people. Tactics are required to beat your opponent, which is very fun because when you charge an enemy position, you can have one person drive a tank to cover your teamates playing as infantry while you have another person dive bomb the enemy position. The online play is very addicting and fun.

The graphics are really good for 2002. There is a lot of detail on the soldiers, the vehicles and the environment including the foliage and the trees. The sound is also very good. There is no music on any of the levels which brings out some realism because in real life, there are no music on the battlefield. All you hear are explosions, gunshots and ambient noises.

Despite these good things, there are some bad things: There are some historical inaccuracies. One of these is that the Japanese are using German weapons, in real life they had their own weapons, its the same thing with the British and the Soviets, they are using American weapons. (Fortunately a patch was released that gave these armies their own weapons which brings more realism). The AI in the single player is bad. I wish they would have made the single player better but the multiplayer greatly makes up. Also, you cant aim down your sights like most other shooters do.

Overall its a great and fun game. If you dont have this game and you like WW2 shooters and fun online play, then get this game.