first-person shooter
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Electronic Arts
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. The game can be played in single-player mode against the
video game AI
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or in
multiplayer
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mode against players on the
Internet
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or in a
local area network
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. It is a popular platform for mod developers, with many released modifications that alter the gameplay and theme.
In-game, players assume the role of one of five classes of
infantry
Infantry is a military specialization which engages in ground combat on foot. Infantry generally consists of light infantry, mountain infantry, motorized infantry & mechanized infantry, airborne infantry, air assault infantry, and mar ...
: Scout, Assault, Anti-Tank, Medic, and Engineer. Players also have the ability to fly various
World War II
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bomber
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s, navigate
capital ship
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Strategic im ...
coastal artillery
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defenses, drive
tank
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anti-aircraft guns
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and mounted
machine gun
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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
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,
Eastern
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, and
Italian
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Fronts. Combat is between the
Axis Power
The Axis powers, ; it, Potenze dell'Asse ; ja, 枢軸国 ''Sūjikukoku'', group=nb originally called the Rome–Berlin Axis, was a military coalition that initiated World War II and fought against the Allies. Its principal members were Na ...
s and the Allies. The location determines which nation-specific armies are used (for example, on the
Wake Island
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United States
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Germany
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versus the
United Kingdom
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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
A battlefield, battleground, or field of battle is the location of a present or historic battle involving ground warfare. It is commonly understood to be limited to the point of contact between opposing forces, though battles may involve troops ...
'' game series.
Gameplay
The gameplay of ''Battlefield 1942'' generally has a more co-operative 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
In video games, spawning is the live creation of a character, item or NPC. Respawning is the recreation of an entity after its death or destruction, perhaps after losing one of its lives. Despawning is the deletion of an entity from the game ...
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: Scout, Assault,
Medic
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Among physicians in the UK, the term "medic" indicates someone who has followed a "medical" career path in postgra ...
, Anti-tank, and
Engineer
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.
Each role has its own strength and weakness. For example, the scout role has long-range surveillance, high stopping power 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 sniper rifle is not designed to be used in close-quarter combat and players frequently treat this role as just a plain sniper 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 sub-machine gun 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 explosives, which are highly effective against both enemy infantry and vehicles, and lastly,
land mine
A land mine is an explosive device concealed under or on the ground and designed to destroy or disable enemy targets, ranging from combatants to vehicles and tanks, as they pass over or near it. Such a device is typically detonated automati ...
s, which destroy enemy vehicles on contact.
Development
In 2000, DICE acquired Refraction Games (developers of ''
Codename Eagle
''Codename Eagle'' is a first-person shooter video game developed by Refraction Games and published by Take-Two Interactive and TalonSoft. ''Codename Eagle'' was released initially in the United Kingdom in November 1999, and later in North Amer ...
'') and inherited the in-development ''Battlefield 1942''. The game was originally proposed by DICE as a GameCube 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 Digital Illusions. ''Battlefield 1942'' was built on the formula of the less well-known and successful ''
Codename Eagle
''Codename Eagle'' is a first-person shooter video game developed by Refraction Games and published by Take-Two Interactive and TalonSoft. ''Codename Eagle'' was released initially in the United Kingdom in November 1999, and later in North Amer ...
World War I
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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 Aspyr Media in mid-2004. An
Xbox
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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.
Free French forces
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or as the Royal Italian Army. ''Secret Weapons of WWII'' focuses on prototypical, experimental, and rarely used weapons and vehicles (such as
jet pack
A jet pack, rocket belt, or rocket pack is a device worn on the back which uses jets of gas or liquid to propel the wearer through the air. The concept has been present in science fiction for almost a century and became widespread in the 1960s. ...
s), and added subfactions to the German and British Armies, the German Elite
Troops
A troop is a military sub-subunit, originally a small formation of cavalry, subordinate to a squadron. In many armies a troop is the equivalent element to the infantry section or platoon. Exceptions are the US Cavalry and the King's Troo ...
and
British Commandos
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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 '' Battlefield Vietnam'' 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
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'' 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
review aggregation
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website
Metacritic
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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
GameSpot
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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
IGN
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praised the multiplayer, but said that "the single-player game leaves much to be desired."
''
PC Gamer US
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'' and '' Computer Games Magazine'' 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 Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences awarded ''Battlefield 1942'' with four honors at the 6th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards (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
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'' series and would go on to spawn many sequels and spin-offs set in different eras of war. Releases included '' Battlefield Vietnam'' in 2004, '' Battlefield 2'' in 2005, ''
Battlefield 2142
''Battlefield 2142'' is a 2006 first-person shooter video game developed by DICE and published by Electronic Arts. It is the fourth game in the ''Battlefield'' series. ''Battlefield 2142'' is set in 2142, depicting a war known as "The Cold Wa ...
'' in 2006, ''
Battlefield 1943
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Battlefield 3
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In ''Battlefield 3''s campaign, ...
World War I
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based title, in 2016, ''
Battlefield V
''Battlefield V'' is a first-person shooter game developed by DICE and published by Electronic Arts. It is the eleventh main installment in the ''Battlefield'' series and the successor to 2016's ''Battlefield 1'', and was released for Microsoft ...
'', the first time since ''Battlefield 1943'' that the series saw a return to a
World War II
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theater of operations, and the first since ''Battlefield 1942'' set outside the
Pacific Ocean theater of World War II
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in 2018, and ''
Battlefield 2042
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'' in 2021. All of these releases have been overseen by DICE, with ''Hardline'' being developed by
Visceral Games
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, with additional developers like
Criterion Games
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An October 2004 public release from EA noted the game's modding community.
Like ''
Half-Life
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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
software development kit
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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 '' Battlefield Vietnam'' and '' Battlefield 2'', some mods have released a new version or have continued development with that game. ''Battlefield Vietnam'' uses an updated version of the ''Refractor 2'' game engine. Some mods have switched to the computer games '' Söldner: Secret Wars'', ''
Half-Life 2
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'' 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
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, by Michael Klappenbach. The mod was also contacted by
Hasbro
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for IP issues, as noted in ''Am I Mod or Not?'' (Nieborg, 2005)
* ''Desert Combat'', produced by
Trauma Studios
Trauma Studios was an American video game developer company founded in 2003. They were best known for having created '' Desert Combat'', a mod for '' Battlefield 1942''.PC Magazine''. ''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
Iraq War
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, partof = the Iraq conflict and the War on terror
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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
Winter
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and
Continuation War
The Continuation War, also known as the Second Soviet-Finnish War, was a conflict fought by Finland and Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1944, as part of World War II.; sv, fortsättningskriget; german: Fortsetzungskrieg. A ...
s between Finland and the Soviet Union, as well as
Lapland War
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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
''Inside Mac Games'' (''IMG'') started in 1993 as an electronic magazine about Apple Macintosh computer gaming distributed by floppy disk, eventually becoming a website.
History
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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
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* Edge device, an entry point to a computer network
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'' in April 2004. ''Galactic Conquest'' was reviewed on
TechTV
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's ''
X-Play
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'' show in 2004.
* ''HydroRacers'' was reviewed in '' PC Zone'' 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, Aftonbladet 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.