Battlefield 1942: World War II Anthology

List Price: $29.99 Discount Price: $16.86

Features:

• First person, team-based action game that places you in the midst of a WWII battlefield
• Includes the expansion packs The Road to Rome and Secret Weapons of World War II
• Additional maps include Coral Sea and Battle of Britain; also includes a map editor and the top-5 fan-created maps
• Pilot or crew any of 35 war machines including jeeps, fighters, bombers, artillery, APCs, tanks, aircraft carriers, submarines, and other craft
• Go online to take part in raging multiplayer battles with up to 64 players

Accessories:
PC Gamer (1-year)	Games for Windows: The Official Magazine

Customer Reviews:

BAD Serial numbers on installation No Customer Help@EA [Posted on 2005-12-27]
I purchased this pkg from amazon and it was new. Not used.
When trying to install on my xp machine it refuses to accept any of the codes on the booklet for the different modules. So far only fun I've had is mixing aspirin with tums. EA is unreachable by phone and doubt they will ever answer my tech support request. They won't see another nickel from me.

Greatest WWII game ever made!!!!!!!!! [Posted on 2006-01-25]
I saw this game on the shelf at Best Buy and I just had to have it.I love WWII and loved this game too. This game has a ton of vehicles to drive and explode. You can also drive airplanes and battleships. The smallest thing you can drive is a jeep and the largest thing you can drive is an aircraft carrier. There is a large variety of weapons including bazookas, snipers and the massive battleship deck guns. The Germans and Japs come in enormous amounts but so do your bullets. If you are in a vehicle no matter what it is, you can slam into, run over, and kill the enemy. There are different camera positions for the people who like it in a different place. You can steal enemy tanks and cars and planes. If you are in a plane, you can come in towards the enemy troops and take them out with your machine guns or come over them with some bombs and give them a little gift from the Americans. You can play as the Americans, the British, the Spanish, and the Italians. If you want to join the Axis powers you can play as the Germans and the Japanese. There is not that much action when you are among the enemy unless they are in a tank. Most of the shooting is done by you. The most action is the dogfighting in the air. If your enemy is occupying a tank, plane, jeep or battleship you should see some action. There are great online levels with new vehicles and battlefields. I have a piece of crap internet that doesn't connect me to online play with others, but I went to the online levels and they are cool even if you aren't fighting someone. So those of you with better internets should have even more fun with the game than me. A few other things that you can do are throw knives at people, stab people, bayonet them, blow them to hell with grenades, and get a jetpack to fly over the Germans and shoot them. Also, you can call for backup, artillery, and air support.Get this game, I guarentee that you will like it. And be sure to get the complete collection or the WWII anthology so you can own them all. -Clark

Oh, please [Posted on 2006-04-24]
I have had this game for 6 weeks and expected a wonderful WWII shooter that had everything.This game is not a failure, but a disappointment.

Pros:The maps allowed me to explore and enjoy the intense battles. I lost myself in the large, open maps like Guadalcanal and Gothic Line(Secret Weapons of WWII) and enjoyed the intense small maps that allow the andrelanline to rush, like Berlin and Stalingrad.

The soldier's kits were wonderfully packed with weapons that were realistic, but sadly underpowered(like the Thompson, Shotgun, and Type 99). The ammunition display fitted every weapon and increased the feeling of conservativeness.

Cons:The manual was a complete disaster. The controls tell you that you can control submarines, aircraft carriers, and battleships, etc., but later in the manual, it said that you could'nt. What submarines, there is nothing even like that underwater, not even fish. It took me forever to find out that i could really control the large vehicles.

Weapons that looked wonderful, acted wonderful, and were semi-wonderful saddened me. Please, there is no such thing as taking 2 headshots to kill someone with a K98 Sniper rifle? This causes you to waste bullet after bullet for a cork gun.

The maps, no matter how small and easy for the CPU to run, had such a low frame rate that it felt like I was walking into several pictures. I could not aim at all, the slightest movement jerked me into a blocky, still-image frenzy.


This game is good, yes, but not good if you do not have a below average computer. I have a good computer, 2.6Ghz AMD with a ATI Radeon 9600 with 512RAM, but it still felt like a sloth.

Overall very good but dated graphics [Posted on 2007-01-27]
Overall a very good and fun game. The graphics are quite dated compared to the newer games. Have not had much luck controlling the aircraft - even with a joy stick. The tight maps on single player are restrictive for aircraft. Also, on some of the desert scenarios - hard to determine where to press the attack. Overall very enjoyable.

Get this not BF2 complete collection! (there is a trick..) [Posted on 2007-05-20]
Bf2 complete collection comes with BFV.

Any way this game is really good! Be a amercian pilot and go in some nasty dog fights. Join the infanty for some intence action or be a sniper in enemey lines, no matter what you do it rocks!

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