Battlefield 1942 Expansion: The Road to Rome
Product DescriptionThe War Is Far From Over . . Product Information [Requires Battlefield 1942 to play]This multiplayer-focused expansion pack gives you more of what you demand fromthe original Battlefield 1942, including more maps, more vehicles, and morefighting forces. The Road to Rome focuses exclusively on the key Italian and Siciliancampaigns of WWII. Each map comes with highly detailed environments suAmazon. com ReviewFor fans of large-scale team-based first-person shooters, Battlefield 1942 scratches precisely where we itch. The game comes with sprawling maps, massive teams, and a huge assortment of player-controllable vehicles up to and including battleships, tanks, and fighter planes–all wrapped up in a World War II setting with authentic voices, phrases, and uniforms. To be honest, I didn’t think that Battlefield 1942 could get much better. Being wrong has never felt so good. The Road To Rome is virtually a Platonic example of what an expansion pack should be. The six new maps are set in Italy, and include the Battle of Anzio, Operation Husky (in Sicily), as well as conflicts at Monte Cassino and Monte Santa Croce. Most of the maps tend to be hilly, which makes for exciting play and presents great opportunities for surprise attacks. There are eight new vehicles, including a tank with two turrets, a large bomber, and a new APC with a heavy gun turret. The expansion pack includes a single-player mode with nonscripted AI, which is useful to practice against when you’re learning the new maps and vehicles before heading online–but there’s no question that multiplayer is where Road To Rome shines. It’s hard to identify any weak points in this expansion pack. If I had to nitpick though, the multiplayer network code, though improved, still remains a little flakier than it should be. And there are one or two maps that have capture points that one side or the other will be mysteriously unable to recapture once they’ve been lost. It would help if there was some word from EA on whether those points are set to remain uncapturable by design or are the result of a bug. There’s no excuse for any self-respecting Battlefield 1942 owner to not pick up The Road To Rome. It has more of the elements you enjoyed in the original, conveniently condensed into solid, CD-shaped form. RTR is a shining example of what an expansion pack should be. –Jon “Safety Monkey” Grover Pros: Great new maps are both a hoot and a holler Tons of cool new vehicles Really, really fun Cons: Net code could still use a little work A few capture points on some maps inexplicably seem to be unable to be recaptured once one side has them
Battlefield 1942 Expansion: The Road to Rome
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If the expansion is anything like the original then this game will kick some serious . . . . Battlefield 1942 is one of those hidden gems of a game that people have never heard of but once they play it, they are hooked forever. BF1942 has been voted Action Game of the Year by many sources and this expansion is looking to really take its place next to its bigger sister.
Rating: 5 / 5
Two of my favorite types of games are First-Person Shooters and Flight Simulators, naturally this game grabbed me right away and I bought it. I thought it was the greatest thing out there. . . for the first two weeks then I went back to Day of Defeat . . . The Good:This is a one of a kind game, in the fact that it is the first WWII online game to let anyone pilot or drive any vehicle you can get your hands on. This is also one of the first games to let you play with 64 people at the same time. That is about were the good goes sour. The Bad:Yeah vehicles are a good idea, but the physics of the Jeeps, APCs, Planes, tanks. . . and every vehicle in the game seem skewed. The land vehicles slide all over the place making it tough to manuver on treacherous terrain. After some getting use to it though, you can manage. Playing with 64 people is great, except finding a server with that many people playing is difficult. I have seen maybe 3 or 4 64 player servers with A: maxed out people or B: a good pin,g in the months I have had this game. If you are one of the few gamers without a broadband connection, don’t even bother, you don’t stand a chance online and the single player AI requires a monster machine to run if you want them to be the least bit challenging. Also, the difficulty levels swing from every bot seeming to have a labotomy, to now they are all suddenly Rambo and you get sniped from all the way across the map by some bot with a pistol named Henry Weiner. The weapon models are all pretty ugly, especially the BAR, which looks like something you’d see in your nephews toy chest. The other thing that irks me about this game is it is a WWII simulation with no M1 Garand. . . just pitiful. Buy this game if:-You have a 2. 0+ ghz machine, at least 256 megs of RAM, a 64mb video card, a broadband internet connection, you enjoy poorly done vehicles and physics, and you are a glutton for punishment. Don’t buy this game if:-You want to have fun. Your better off getting the Day of Defeat mod for Half-life . . .
Rating: 2 / 5
This expansion adds a few new vehicles (which play like the old ones) and French/Italian troops (which play like the old ones). I’ve played through the new maps and they look and play a lot like the original ones. In my opinion a good expansion is one that I can’t stand to play the game without. With Road to Rome, I really couldn’t care less. I enjoy many of the original maps better.
Rating: 3 / 5
This expansion, is good, don’t get me wrong. But it seems very lacking. There are very few things which are actually new. It just feels like it wasn’t completed, every new map seems easily recreated if there were a map editor. And most of the weapons and vehicles, while true to their history, seems gameplay-wise, a remodelled version of what was already there. They also did not see fit to add in any sort of single-player campaign option for the new maps. Overall it’s pretty good, it does expand the map repertoire of the best multiplayer game available, but it just leaves you thinking they should’ve done more for the $. . .
Rating: 3 / 5
It simply doesn’t get any better than this. Graphics are superb, sound is superb, and the content variety alone is enough to make you drool. Pilot a WW2 bomber, blast away with machine turrets, crush your opponents with a tank, launch an assault on a battleship, get somewhere quickly and easily with a jeep, and take any of the classic FPS roles. Well worth the money. And don’t forget the expansion!
Rating: 5 / 5