To put put it in american terminology 'this game be the shit'

This game rules! RULES!!!!! RULES!!!!!

For those of you who have no idea what im waffling on about, Battlefeild 1942 is a game where you play in a series of famous battles yeas you guessed it 1939 -45, theres Stalingrad, Krachov, Midway, Berlin, Market graden, D Day, El Alamane, Tobruk and a whole load of other battles all realisticaly detailed and done to the time period.

But thats not all! You can take control from 20 different vehicles to Sherman medium tanks, Churchill tanks, the Jeep, the higgins boat, a battleship, a stukka dive bomber, a peice of self proppeled artillery, a german light infantry carrier, a T-4, T-34 and Elephant tanks. Plus king tigers and some others.

But these aren;'t designated roles. You can start off as a regular russian infantry man ready to be mown down by german or finnish bullets but you could climb intoa T-34 and take to the battle in armour, or an IL-2 Sturmovik, its like operation flashpoint just with far better graphics.

Plus the game can have upto 64 human or AI players so who needs skirmishes when you can have plattoons blwoing the shit out of each other, and wiuth the optoion of uneven teams you can play as a german soldier in Army Group South battling to the last ion Stalingrad or as an British soldier in market graden.

The countries you can play as are:

Russia, Germany, America, France, Britain, Japan, Australia, Italy and not forgetting Canadian. All these nations have no real differencces but the uniforms are different and there are a slight variatition in the weapons, if your a russian conscription with an american BAR then its not going to be as good as if ytou were an american or if your an italian firing an MG-42 its going to heat up faster, this gives an almost endless play on the battlefeidls of europe, asia, africa, and i think pearl harbour is there as well but i dont remember.

So in other words. BUYT THIS GAME!

Oh yeah, I heard a lot of positive things about this game. Really would like to try it out, but my computer sucks too much... need an upgrade... damn it.

From what I heard the game really rocks, but is it similar to Renegade??? because if it is I don't think I'll buy it.

It's totally differnt. If you like MOHAA then you'll love this. I was playing it earlier and strafed an entire armoured column ina captured russian IL-2 then i parachuted out and stole a jeep before being shot to shit by a bastard with an MG-42 and some sniper with a Bazooka.

Sounds really exciting, okay then when I see one I'll be sure to buy it...

Lemmie just start off by saying I love WWII games and the like. But I've just gotta ask: are these games 'bad' for us? I mean, I think about the battle of Stalingrad or Kursk, sure it's cool seeing a tank go up or shooting down a stuka, but I'll bet there's alot that they leave out (well of course there is...duh). I don't think they'll let you rape a Ukranian peasant girl, or mow down a line of Russian POW's, or flick the switch on a gas chamber.

I know I'm getting preachy, but I'm preaching to myself here too. The eastern front had the biggest, most spectacular pitched battles in history. It was also completely devoid of human decency. I'm just wondering...are we....dishonoring history when we make these games for our amusement?

War is hell yet it makes money, the same as with movies, tell me you didn't watch Saving Private Ryan simply for the harrowing story. Or Enemy At The Gates for the romance, you watched it to see germans, americans and russians getting their heads blwon off in horrific ways.

People haven't changed since the roman days, except now we kills polygons instead of real people.

and ill juz borrow it from wraith.... tee hee hee...

Maybe I'll wait till you buy it and then borrow if from you... hehehe