''Battlefield 1942'' is a 2002

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developed by

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and published by

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for

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and

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. The game can be played in

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mode against the video game AI or in

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mode against players on the

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or in a

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. It is a popular platform for

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developers, with many released modifications that alter the gameplay and theme. In-game, players assume the role of one of five classes of

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: Scout, Assault, Anti-Tank, Medic, and Engineer. Players also have the ability to fly various

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and

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s, navigate

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s, and

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s, man

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defenses, drive

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s, APCs and

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s, and take control of anti-aircraft guns and mounted

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s. Each battle takes place on one of several maps located in a variety of places and famous battlefields in all of the major theaters of World War II: the Pacific,

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, North African, Eastern, and Italian Fronts. Combat is between the

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s and the

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. The location determines which nation-specific armies are used (for example, on the

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map, it is

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versus the

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, while on the

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versus the

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). The maps in ''Battlefield 1942'' are based on real battles and are somewhat realistically portrayed. Upon release, ''Battlefield 1942'' received generally favorable reviews, with particular praise directed towards the innovative gameplay, multiplayer, and World War II theme. The game went on to perform well commercially, with over 3 million copies sold by 2004. Since its release, the game has spawned numerous sequels and spin-offs, which became part of what ultimately would become the '' Battlefield'' game series.

Gameplay

The gameplay of ''Battlefield 1942'' generally has a more

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focus than previous games of this nature, as it is not only important to kill the opposition but to also hold certain "control points" around the map. Capturing control points allows the team to reinforce itself by enabling players and vehicles to spawn in a given area. Additionally, capturing and controlling control points also reduces enemy reinforcements. ''Battlefield 1942'' was one of the first mainstream games to represent a dramatic shift in FPS gameplay mentality not only favoring individualism but simultaneously encouraging teamwork and coordination. The default gameplay mode, Conquest, centers on the capture and control of control points; once a team captures a control point, its members can respawn from it. When a team loses control of all their control points, they cannot respawn. And if no one is alive, the team with no "spawn" points or the popular term "tickets" loses. Games are composed of rounds. A team wins the round when the other team runs out of tickets. A team loses tickets when its members are killed, but also when the other team holds a majority of the capture points on the map (typically when one team holds more capture points than the other). Therefore, sometimes the winning team must hunt down straggling or hiding enemy forces at the end of a round. Spawn tickets also play a vital role in the success of both teams. Every time a player on a team dies and respawns, their team loses one ticket. Every team starts each round with between 150 and 300 tickets, depending on the team's role (e.g., defense). Teams also gradually lose tickets depending on how many spawn points they control. As a general rule, the fewer spawn points controlled by a team, the more tickets they lose, and as they hold on these spawn points reduces, the tickets start dropping at a much quicker pace. For a team of 32 on a 64 player map, with 150 tickets, this means a little less than 5 respawns or deaths on average for every player if they hold their starting spawn points.

Roles

The player can choose to play as either the Allied team or the Axis team. The Allies consist of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and the Soviet Union, while the Axis consists of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. Regardless of which nation is chosen by the player, there are five different roles of infantry that the player can assume the role:

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, Assault, Medic, Anti-tank, and

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. Each role has its own strength and weakness. For example, the scout role has long-range surveillance, high

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and the ability to provide spotting for artillery shelling against an enemy position (unlike other games with a similar feature, other player characters must also supply the artillery fire); however, the

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is not designed to be used in close-quarter combat and players frequently treat this role as just a plain

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role by not providing spotting for artillery. Assault is the standard role and provides very aggressive firepower. The Anti-tank role specializes against vehicles and tanks, but their main weapon is inaccurate against moving enemy infantry. The Medic role has the ability to heal (himself and other players), but his

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has less stopping power than the Assault's weapons. The Engineer has the ability to repair damaged vehicles and stationary weapons, and they also have the ability to deploy

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, which are highly effective against both enemy infantry and vehicles, and lastly,

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s, which destroy enemy vehicles on contact.

Development

In 2000,

acquired Refraction Games (developers of ''

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'') and inherited the in-development ''Battlefield 1942''. The game was originally proposed by DICE as a

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exclusive. Though satisfied with the proposal, negotiations never made it further because Nintendo had no online strategy. The game was developed by a team of 14 people at

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. ''Battlefield 1942'' was built on the formula of the less well-known and successful ''

'' video game, set in an

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. It featured single and multiplayer modes. The earlier Refractor 1 engine had more arcade-style physics and a less realistic focus than its successor, Refractor 2, which was used in ''Battlefield 2''. A Macintosh-compatible version of ''Battlefield 1942'' was made and released by

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in mid-2004. An

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version of the game was also announced in early 2001 but was cancelled almost two years later so Electronic Arts could more closely work on an expansion pack for the PC.

Expansions

Two expansion packs would be released for ''Battlefield 1942'', '' Battlefield 1942: The Road to Rome'' (adding the Italian Front) and '' Battlefield 1942: Secret Weapons of WWII'', both adding various new gameplay modes, maps, and game concepts. ''The Road to Rome'' focuses on the Italian battles, allowing players to play as the Free French forces or as the

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. ''Secret Weapons of WWII'' focuses on prototypical, experimental, and rarely used weapons and vehicles (such as

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s), and added subfactions to the German and British Armies, the German

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and

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. Accompany each were patches to the base game that fixed bugs, and added extra content (such as the Battle of Britain map) to the base game. ''Battlefield 1942 Deluxe Edition'' includes the original game and ''Battlefield 1942: The Road To Rome'', and the ''Battlefield 1942: World War II Anthology'' added ''Battlefield 1942: Secret Weapons of WWII'' expansion pack. ''Battlefield 1942: The Complete Collection'' later added ''

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'' and ''Battlefield Vietnam WWII Mod''.

Reception

In the United States, ''Battlefield 1942'' sold 680,000 copies and earned $27.1 million by August 2006. At the time, this led '' Edge'' to rank it as the country's 18th best-selling computer game released since January 2000. Combined sales of all ''Battlefield'' computer games, including ''Battlefield 1942'', had reached 2.7 million units in the United States by August 2006. In December 2002, the game received a "Gold" sales award from the Verband der Unterhaltungssoftware Deutschland (VUD), indicating sales of at least 100,000 units across Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The game sold more than 3 million copies by July 2004. The game received "generally favorable reviews", just one point shy of "universal acclaim", according to the

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. At 6th annual Interactive Achievement Awards, ''Battlefield 1942'' received awards for Online Gameplay, Innovation in PC Gaming, PC Game of the Year, and Game of the Year. In March 2010 ''Battlefield 1942'' was awarded with "Swedish game of the decade" award at the computer game gala hosted by Swedish Games Industry. Scott Osborne of

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called it a "comic book version of WWII." The publication later named it the best computer game of September 2002. Steve Butts of

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praised the multiplayer, but said that "the single-player game leaves much to be desired." '' PC Gamer US'' and ''

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'' named ''Battlefield 1942'' the best multiplayer computer game and best overall computer game of 2002; it tied with '' No One Lives Forever 2'' for the latter award in ''Computer Games Magazine''. It also won ''GameSpot''s annual "Best Multiplayer Action Game on PC" and "Biggest Surprise on PC" awards, and was nominated in the publication's "Best Graphics (Technical) on PC" and "Game of the Year on PC" categories. ''PC Gamer US''s editors hailed it as "the realization of our 'dream PC game' — multiplayer battles in which every interesting element of combat is playable by human teammates and opponents." The

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awarded ''Battlefield 1942'' with four honors at the 6th Annual

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(now known as the D.I.C.E. Awards): "Game of the Year", "Computer Game of the Year", "Innovation in Computer Gaming" and "Outstanding Achievement in Online Gameplay"; it was also nominated for "Outstanding Achievement in Game Design".

Franchise

''Battlefield 1942'' was the first in the '' Battlefield'' series and would go on to spawn many sequels and spin-offs set in different eras of war. Releases included ''

'' in 2004, ''

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'' in 2005, ''

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'' in 2006, ''

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'' in 2009, '' Battlefield: Bad Company'' in 2008 and the 2010 sequel, '' Battlefield 3'' in 2011, ''

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'' in 2013, ''

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'', a cops-and-robbers spinoff, in 2015, ''

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'', a

based title, in 2016, ''

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'', the first time since ''Battlefield 1943'' that the series saw a return to a

theater of operations, and the first since ''Battlefield 1942'' set outside the Pacific Ocean theater of World War II in 2018, and '' Battlefield 2042'' in 2021. All of these releases have been overseen by

, with ''Hardline'' being developed by

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, with additional developers like Criterion Games,

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and Ripple Effect Studios providing additional development.

Mods

An October 2004 public release from EA noted the game's modding community. Like ''

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'' and some other popular FPS games, ''Battlefield 1942'' spawned a number of mods. Most did not progress very far and were abandoned without ever producing a public release. Some are very limited and just include some gameplay changes or even a different loading screen while others are total conversions that modify content and gameplay extensively. A few mods have become popular and are nearly games in their own right. Early modifications of Battlefield 1942 were produced without a

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. Later a "Mod Development Kit", Battlefield Mod Development Toolkit, was produced by EA to help the development of mods. With the release of the Battlefield 1942 sequel ''

'' and ''

'', some mods have released a new version or have continued development with that game. ''Battlefield Vietnam'' uses an updated version of the ''Refractor 2''

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. Some mods have switched to the computer games '' Söldner: Secret Wars'', '' Half-Life 2'' while others were releasing a standalone game after completed mod development for Battlefield 1942 (Eve of Destruction - REDUX and FinnWars). *''Battlefield 1918'', A mod set during World War I which was first released in 2004 and as of December 2022 is still in active development. Battlefield 1918 was mentioned as an inspiration for Battlefield 1 by key DICE employee Lars Gustavsson in a 2016 interview. * ''Battlefield Interstate 1982'', mentioned in ''1UP'' ''"Free PC Games"'' December 2003 article. (''Free PC Games'' "1UP.ORG" December 2003.) * ''Battle G.I. Joe'' was reviewed on About.com, by Michael Klappenbach. The mod was also contacted by Hasbro for IP issues, as noted in ''Am I Mod or Not?'' (Nieborg, 2005) * ''Desert Combat'', produced by

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''. ''PC Gamer'' described it as "Desert Combat is set in the white-hot conflict zone of the Middle East and pits the United States against Iraq." Articles noted it was helped by the

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, which increased the number of page views to approximately 15,000 per day, or even between 20,000 and 70,000. Desert Combat was pointed out as having two mods of its own, ''DC Extended'' and ''Desert Combat Realism'' in ''Am I Mod or Not?'' (Nieborg, 2005) * ''Eve Of Destruction'' was the winner of ''PC Gamer'' 2003 Mod of the Year. Dan Morris of PC Gamer noted in the March 2004 issue of PC Gamer, "While Battlefield Vietnam was still a twinkle in its developers' eyes, this standout mod debuted to a rapturous reception from the Battlefield 1942 faithful." * ''Experience WWII'' was described in PC Gamer as having substantial changes to be historically accurate that directly impacts gameplay. * '' FinnWars'' was featured in ''Pelit'' magazine in issue 9/2005, and ''PC Pelaaja'' in 2007. FinnWars is based in

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and Continuation Wars between Finland and the Soviet Union, as well as Lapland War between Finland and Nazi Germany. * ''Forgotten Hope'', a 2003 mod that aimed at a high degree of historical accuracy, was noted for including over 250 new pieces of authentic equipment (at the time more than any other World War II-themed FPS). It was awarded the Macologist Mod of the Year Award by Inside Mac Games in 2006 after the mod was ported to the Mac. It was followed by its 2006 ''Battlefield 2'' sequel, ''Forgotten Hope 2''. * ''Galactic Conquest'' was noted for its permission to blatantly use Lucasarts Star Wars universe material in ''Am I Mod or Not?'' (Nieborg, 2005). It was mentioned in '' Edge'' in April 2004. ''Galactic Conquest'' was reviewed on

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's '' X-Play'' show in 2004. * ''HydroRacers'' was reviewed in ''

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'' in 2004 by Tony Lamb, and also the ''Madison Courier'' in June 2004. * ''Siege'' was pointed out in a study by Utrecht University, both for its original concept, and its medieval warfare theme. ''Am I Mod or Not?'' (Nieborg, 2005) * '' SilentHeroes'' won the ''PC ACTION-Super Mod Award'' in edition 07/2006 of the German gaming-magazine PC ACTION. Also, it was featured on many Norwegian and Swedish media websites, including VG,

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and IDG. * ''Who Dares Wins'' was reviewed in August 2005 UK edition of ''PC Gamer'' magazine and a copy of version 0.2 was distributed with the magazine on DVD-ROM to its readers.

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