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Battlefield 1942 Secret Weapons Demo Released

Posted by simoniker on from the luftwaffe-want-their-secret-weapons-back dept.

Thanks to Blue's News for their post indicating that the playable PC demo of Battlefield 1942: Secret Weapons of WWII has been released, "offering a sample of the upcoming Battlefield 1942 add-on that plays 'what if' with experimental weapons." You don't need the original title to play, and there are mirrors of the 165 MB download on 3D Gamers, Gamer's Hell, BF1942files.com, and a BitTorrent link via 3DGamers.

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  1. Better then the first expansion? by Mostly+Monkey · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It'll have to be pretty nice before I spend another $30 on an expansion especially with the kick-butt Desert Combat and EOD mods that are available for free.

    I felt ripped off after buying the first one once I realized that there were only 6 new maps and a couple of new vehicles and weapons.

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    1. Re:Better then the first expansion? by Grand · · Score: 2, Insightful

      I also felt ripped off buying the road to rome. I bought the game and the expansion at the same time. So far I have played R2R about 10 times. As you said it was more vehicles and more maps. That is exactly what Secret Weapons will be. I think the 1942 mod community is big enough to actually hurt sales of the new expansions (SW and Vietnam). There are some very well made mods out there. Hell, one of the very early playable releases of the GI JOE mod was fun as hell even though it only had 4 different kinds of vehicles. The best mod out there IMO is EoD. It breaks up the norm of 1942 and puts the player into actual infantry combat. So instead of spawning and sitting in a line to get into a vehicle, you get to actually walk around with a gun in your hand. And as a soldier on the battlefield your actually useful NOT in a vehicle.

  2. Free promotion by superultra · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Ok. This is a good time to point out that the companies, in this case EA, ought to be the ones hosting these files and providing them for download. Demos are promotional material, and yet I don't even see EA hosting the file. How sweet of a deal is that for EA? At some point in the near future the gaming enthusiast community ought to demand respect from gaming publishers. From testing unfinished games (aka patches) to promoting *their* material (demos), the fan community takes up a huge amount of responsibility that the company ought to be the one bearing.

  3. Insulting expansions by Mike+Hawk · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I dont appreciate them listing new vehicles as new features. From my experience with BF1942, the vehicles are no more than one of the features of the map it is in. Correct me if I am wrong, but its not as if the admin can drop the jet pack in Wake Island now. This goes for the character models and available weapons too, all map dependent. They might as well list the new types of buildings as features. I have serious problems with the concept of expansions in relation to BF1942. It seems to me that it would be more appropriate to call them map packs since that is all they are. They make the game intentionally difficult to mod, then release extra maps and call them expansions. FU too EA.

  4. Re:Anyone tried it yet? by neostorm · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "I mean how many expansions are they gonna make?"

    As many as they can get you to buy...
    (See: Sims)