Battlefield 1942 Critic Reviews

In addition to standard team-based first-person shooter action, Battlefield 1942 incorporates the brilliant gameplay concept of vehicles and other machinery.

The incredible online experience surely delivers.

It’s got anything, and EVERYTHING you would EVER want in a WWII game, actually its got pretty much everything you’d ever want in a game, period.

For gamers thrilled by the action and heroes of movies based on World War II, or for any other red-blooded, meat-eating, chest-thumping, flatulating normal kinds of dudes, Battlefield 1942 will be virtual nirvana.

Battlefield 1942 is a living proof of an exceptional game in its simplicity.

We play nearly every multiplayer game that comes out here at work and nothing, not even "Warcraft III" has pulled in the kinds of crowds we're getting here at work.

In a team-on-team multiplayer battle on the well-designed maps, you may well find yourself kissing your monitor out of pure joy.

This is a whole new level of online first-person fragging, and though it's not without its missteps, it's about as close to the front lines as you're gonna get while staring at your monitor....A very, very compelling game.

The most exhilarating mix of simulation, realism, arcade fun, destructive firepower, strategy and action available for your PC.

It's an addictive romp into a time long past that keeps many gamers begging for more.

A fantastic game - ridiculously fun, completely infectious, and one of the best massively multiplayer designs I've ever seen in an action game.

Has everything we've ever wanted in a WWII battlefield game.

If your PC has the horsepower, Battlefield: 1942 is an online action experience no gamer should miss.

BF1942 is an impressive game that's great fun in multiplayer.

Easily the best online game to date. Sporting 40 weapons and 35 vehicles on servers that reach up to 64 players of pure chaos, there is no lack of excitement. Excellent controls, decent visuals and sounds add to the mix.

One of the best team multiplayer games to release for a long time. Huge battles, different vehicles and smooth transformation between vehicles and first person will have players wanting more and more.

For now, as long as you can find skilled teammates and aren't getting pestered by the game's technical problems, Battlefield 1942 can be, quite appropriately, a real blast.

What makes Battlefield 1942 so playable is because it's so subtle.

It’s a tribute to the developers that Battlefield 1942 stands head and shoulders above most of its competition, after all these years of real-world shooters.

As good as the sound usually is in Battlefield, it's the worst aspect of the game overall.