Battlefield 1942 Secret Weapons Demo Released

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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supersecret

[TurtlesAllTheWayDown]

I haven't played Battlefield 1942, and suspect that the major focus of the game is NOT what I'm thinking about anyway, but I would *love* to see a WWII era strategy game with a focus not so much on battlefield tactics, but on research- toward development of The Bomb.

In conventional history, the Allies hurt the Axis nuclear efforts early on with sabotage of their heavy water processing plants; but if the raid hadn't worked, if Germany had applied more resources to nuke-building, or of others (Japan, USSR) the WWII endgame might have been much more interesting. Even the primitive "dirty-bomb" style devices the German team had been considering could have significant impact, under the right conditions.

A game where you have to balance resources expended on conventional forces vs those spent on research into exotic technology (Hell, you could even throw in a few Philadelpha Experiment style duds; the player ideally should NOT know which technologies would pay off in advance). Spies, and counterspies. An expansion pack could cover Cold War era nuclear research/espionage toward a Super, and Soviet dominance of Europe)

Is there anything like this out, today?

If not, would *you* buy it?

Re:supersecret

[Anonymous Coward]

Check out the strat from the creators of Europa Universalis. The game is called Hearts of Iron and is almost exactly like what you described, you can pick it up sub-$25 also, so ENJOY!