BATTLEFIELD 1943 REVIEW PC
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These maps have been reduced in scope accordingly, but that brings its own problems - the epic naval battles in the PC Pacific maps are reduced to two static aircraft carriers acting as glorified spawn-points.

What Battlefield was to me was the battles, rather than an elaborate team deathmatch, and by limiting the player count to 24 there is much lost in this console transalation. Even better is the sound-design which complements the intense local battles with muffled sounds from the wider conflict.īut none of this matters.

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This time DICE have lifted the Frostbite engine from their current Bad Company series with all its destructible scenery goodness, and it looks a treat. 1942 was never a looker and suffered from some limited draw-distances and low-fidelity models. It also helps that the 3 provided are arguably some of the best in the series, and the Pacific setting's Sega-esque blue skies certainly allow for a graphical showcase.Īnd a showcase it most-certainly is. This limitation isn't the handicap you might think, as the maps merely provide a backdrop to a massive array of different experiences thanks to Battlefield's scale. Which brings us to the present day (well, a couple of years ago).īattlefield 1943 is ostensibly an HD version of 1942, limited to three maps from the Pacific theatre: Iwo Jima, Wake Island and Guadalcanal. It is truly the closest the PC had to an arcade game, and was just screaming out for a console conversion. It was World War II, as imagined by 9 year-olds in their back-garden.Īs serious as I began to take it (clans matches and the like), it retained this air of unpredictability where you were never more than a minute away from a Zero falling out the sky. Up to 64 players scrambled to reach the nearest vehicle before ploughing it into the side of a mountain tanks rolled across the desert, only to get blown up by a kamikaze jeep, laden with C4 pitched navel battles took place with marines falling off aircraft carriers only to be scooped up by a surfacing submarine. A PC-only release back in 2002, Battlefield 1942 was a big ball of stupid fun amongst a plethora of po-faced twitch shooters.

Battlefield 1943 review