Battlefield 1942: World War II Anthology review:5 stars (A few bugs, BUT WHAT A HIT!!!!!!!!) - Ok, I admit this game has a few bugs. The only one that I seemed to have a problem with was the game messed up one time when I installed a mod BEFORE installing the official patch. GET IT RIGHT ON THEIR WEBSITE. Install this game and THEN the patch. Worked great now for months.

What mods? TOO MANY TO LIST!!! My personal favorite is Desert Combat Final. The one the only!! This mod ROCKS!! I have even played the demo for Battlefield 2, and I am still thinking about getting that game, but the same people that did the DESERT COMBAT and DESERT COMBAT FINAL mods (Trauma Studios) got hired to work on BF2 because of the Greatness of this mod!!

I have to say I am a little partial because I played this game before I played Call of Duty or Medal of Honor and even though I still own them, they are no longer installed on my system (I have Medal of Honor Pacific Assault too, but haven't even installed it - been playing BF1942 Desert Combat Final too much!). I do have Battlefield Vietnam, but I still like this one the best! It does take some time to learn to fly some of the planes and especially the helicopters but when you do you become a HUGE asset to your team!

When you get even better, there is a WHOLE LOTTA Clans out there on the net waiting for you to join. Never heard of a clan? These are groups of gammers that play together either on their server or someone elses over the internet. One person said no voice over IP. Most clans use either Teamspeak (FREE) or Ventrillo (FREE AND THE BEST!) to communicate to each other!5 stars (Excellent) - I love this game. My brother introduced it to me, and i watched him play, and decided to play for myself. Since, i have become a moderate soldier, and can be a pretty good help on the Battlefeid. As for mods, my fav is Forgotten Hope, followed by Pirates, Eve of Destruction, and Desert Combat/Desert Combat Final.5 stars (The only way to experience the fun in battlefield 1942) - Is to play it as a multiplayer online game. The single player game is worthless unless you're practicing how to maneuver the vehicles or fly the planes. I've played the game for probably a thousand hours over the last couple years and had a blast doing so. It's great to play with a few friends and use team tactics against other people. If you don't enjoy large scale multiplayer battles against other folks, don't buy this game. The icing on the cake are the great mods such as Desert Combat and Galactic Conquest. The above multiplayer comment holds for those as well. Another thing to note, this game will also aggravate you to a great degree if you aren't running it on hardware that can support at least the medium or better frame rate requirements. When the action gets intense, things will get choppy and you will get killed by people with better connections/computers. I've only played it over a cable modem so I'm not sure how the gameplay is over modem. An Athlon 1700+ with 512mb mem and a GeForce 4 4200ti were good enough for the medium settings but I observed slow down on the larger maps to the point that the game was effectively unplayable when many events were occuring at once. When I say unplayable, I mean you get frameskipping and lag that will get you easily killed. Otherwise, Battlefield has been a staple of my regular gaming and will continue to be so for some time to come....or July, when Battlefield 2 comes out ;)
Battlefield 1942: World War II Anthology Features:
Computer Games
Action
Military (Tactics)
Strategy (Strategic)
Historical (historic) Recreation (Recreations)
Military (Wargames
CD
Go online to take part in raging multiplayer battles with up to 64 players
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

Battlefield 1942- World War II Anthology is the CD-ROM version. The full version can be purchased by clicking on the "CLICK HERE TO ORDER" button below for around 29.99USD.