Planes are in high demand, as proven by the number of campers in the airfield. They range from heavy bombers (B17), light bombers (Ilyushin, AichiVal, SBD-5), and fighters (Zero, Yak9, BF109).
As of writing, Battlefield 1942 is still available for free on Origin – you just have to download it via this link because it is more difficult to find it on the Origin program. Get it before 1 March 2013.
Bring the boom boom pow to your enemies.
Battlefield 1942 is a first-person shooter first released in 2002. When it came out, it represented a breakthrough in this genre. You know a game is successful when you keep getting the same thing again and again for years – see the Battlefield series, The Sims and Call of Duty.
It added a variety of ways you can have a rampage over your enemies including blowing them up with a plane’s cannons, blow them up with explosives, or just run them over with your jeep. Have a battle on sea, land and air. Work in teams to coordinate artillery fire, or work alone and climb up a mountain to snipe your enemies.
Each class and each spawn point gives you different abilities and vehicles to choose rom
The game is primarily a multiplayer game, and single player merely means playing the game on the same maps but with really dumb bots. On this note, the game is still highly playable because there are still many servers and players online.
The game runs quite poorly, unfortunately, on a netbook with internal graphics. Playing the game at 640x480x16 with everything set at low, and a disadvantaging visiblity of 50 to 75 per cent, you get a framerate of about 5-20 depending on how many people there are and how many objects there are on a map.
On the other hand, if you have a separate graphics processor, such as an ION 2 like the netbook that I have, you can play this game without much slowdowns. Running on the ION 2, you can play at Medium settings with a 100% visibility and get a framerate of 15-40, again the same slowdowns will apply, especially when there is a lot of action.
The game runs at a 4:3 resolution, so if you do not want to play with a stretched image, follow this link.
Overall, I’d get the game whether or not you have a discrete graphics processor. It is one of the most entertaining game to have on your computer when you are bored – in class with the university’s WiFi or when you are travelling and can’t bring your main computer.
Tanks: from heavy tanks like the TIger to tank destroyers such as the M10, and everything in between.
Like
The pioneer BF1942: still with all its lustre and nostalgia.
A great variety of weapons and vehicles
Dislike
Runs poorly on integrated graphics
If you’re used to the newer Battlefields, the features in this game might feel limited. I see it as simplicity.
Verdict
It’s free – until 1st March 2013 – you have nothing to lose, so get it. If you have an AMD C-series processor or a Nvidia graphics card in your netbook, you will have a good time. It is playable on integrated graphics, but you won’t get a good score due to a choppy framerate.
An excellent game, simple and varied.
Gameplay: GG
Graphics: Great… unless you have integrated graphics
Work needed to get game to play: Plays right out of the box.
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- Each class and each spawn point gives you different abilities and vehicles to choose rom
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- Tanks: from heavy tanks like the TIger to tank destroyers such as the M10, and everything in between.
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- Bring the boom boom pow to your enemies.
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- One of the many ways to blow your enemy up.
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bleh… looks great but… it’s on origin…