Battlefield 1942 The Complete Collection
Battlefield 1942 The Complete Collection
Real war action and strategy / Combat Enemies / Pick sides and see how you might have changed history / ESRB T = Teen
User Ratings and Reviews
4 Stars Single Player Perspective
From the other reviews, it’s obvious that the real strength of this game lies in its multiplayer mode. Nonetheless, I bought it with the intention of playing it in a single player mode. For a stinkin’ $10 you get BF1942, plus the two expansion packs and BF Vietnam with the WWII mod. Not a bad value unless the game really sucks, which it most certainly does not.
It reminded me of Quake Wars, Enemy Territory. A large playing field with various spawn points and you get to be on one of two teams of bots. Admittedly, the bots aren’t all that smart. I found the bots in Quake III Arena to be infinitely smarter, although that could just be my memory playing tricks on me. I haven’t played Quake III in single player mode in ages.
Anyway, I played through the campaign mode and then through the instant maps of the expansion packs and enjoyed every one. I couldn’t fly the planes very well, so that was the least fun part of it. There’s a lot of variety in the weapons and a huge selection of different vehicles. This game is worth playing just for the tanks. They were nicely done and fairly realistic. Going over rough terrain, the tanks bounce up and down as you would expect a real tank to do.
This is an old game, so don’t expect much in the way of detailed graphics, but the game ran quite smooth without a single problem on my Vista x64 machine. I did have to configure the properties of the executable to run in administrator mode before it would save the selectable options, profiles, and game status. One nice thing about the Complete Collection is that you don’t have to download any patches for it. They are already in the game when you install it.
Being an old game, it didn’t have any wide screen (16×10) video modes and I was unable to get any of the manual edits on the config files (as suggested on the widescreengaming forums) to work. I didn’t find that to be a big downside, though. The picture was slightly distorted, but not enough to be an annoyance.
BF Vietnam has a slightly improved game engine making it a bit more modern, but still very similar. Seems like the HUD is slightly more refined than in the original game.
Overall, if you’re running out of FPS games and and have $10 burning a hole in your pocket, this is not a bad game. I played through the games and expansion in about two weeks and wasn’t bored. I may check out the online play which is where the game is most likely to shine. I still play Quake III on line and I would put this in a similar category, although with much larger open maps.
5 Stars Battlefield fan
Great game. Hours of fun. I have bought several copies for friends and have yet to have one to say they didn’t like the game.
5 Stars Battlefield 1942 Complete
I some how lost all my BF files and looked to Amazon for help. This is what I found. It has ALL the games I’ll ever need, in one box. And for $9.99, you can’t go wrong.
BF modern combat is good, but I like using the “old” weapons. And, there are still plenty of servers for you to play people from all over the world. And if you go to Cafe Press, you can get all the patches and new maps for a low monthly charge, then cancel.
4 Stars Great Game
Works well with Vista, some of the combo pack does not. Vietnam works, 1942 works, the other games (Secret weapons and Road to Rome) work at times.
1 Star Save Your Money
I can’t actually rate the game, because I never got to play the multi-player version. The single-player is OK–except while she was watching me play, my teenage daughter asked if all the soldiers walked like ducks: )
My first online play attempt ended with the message that my CD key was bad. I googled all the possible solutions, and tried them all. Even the EA KB article.
I emailed EA Support–they sent a link to the KB article–still did not work. I replied to their response that it still did not work. Two weeks later I got a survey about my customer support experience–which I rated as poor.
A week later I got a follow-up email apologizing, with the additional solution: Wait a few days, try it again. If it still doesn’t work, return the product.
At this point I’m writing it off as $20 lost. Get COD4 instead!