

Players can also control a variety of World War II fighters and bombers, navigate warships, submarines and aircraft carriers, defend coastal artillery, drive tanks, APCs and vehicles jeep, while controlling anti-aircraft guns and mounted machine guns. The players in BF1942 assume the roles of one of five infantry classes: Assault, Anti-Tank, Medic, Engineer, and Scout. For example, on the Wake Island map, the available forces pitted against each other will be Japan and the United States. Each battle takes place on one of several maps located in various historical locations and battlefields in all the theaters of the Second World War: Pacific, European, North African, Eastern and Italian fronts.ĭepending on the location, the nation-specific armies that are available for play will change. Compared to its contemporaries like Medal of Honor and the later Call of Duty (which focused more on the infantry).īattlefield 1942 is set during World War II in the Pacific, Europe and North Africa. One of the big selling points for Battlefield 1942 is the relatively prevalent use of vehicles in combat.

Also known as BF1942, the game is the first entry in what would become the Battlefield series. Battlefield 1942 is a military themed first-person shooter video game developed by DICE and published by Electronic Arts for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.
