Battlefield 1942: Secret Weapons of WW II

Flight Journal, Feb 2004 by Marks, Bob

If you've played Battlefield 1942 online, then you've played a lot of BFl 942 online. That's just the way it is. It's so addictive that the FDA should put a warning label on the box. However, after you've spent the calendar equivalent of your senior year of high school on the Web shooting at strangers, the old formula can get a little tired.

Electronic Arts knows this, and it has produced yet another add-on to the franchise: secret Weapons of WWII. New vehicles, maps and types of soldiers add new flavor to the same old, WW II run/drive/ fly/shoot game, but the aviation enthusiast will be most interested in the new aircraft. secret Weapons of WWII offers up the Horten Ho-229 flying wing and an Armstrong-Whitworth tailless bomber for the British teams, and oddly, the American XF-85 Goblin parasitic fighter for the Americans. If you seek a realistic representation of these aircraft (or anything else in the game), you had better look elsewhere. The aircraft all fly with a flight model approaching whatever it was that crashed in Roswell circa 1947, but hey; it's all in good fun. No improvement has been made to the original game's rather stilted and limited offline play, but that's beside the point. Getting online with SW of WWII is like playing paintball with jet airplanes and tanks, and what could possibly be wrong with that?