Topic: Battlefield 1942 For Gamecube!!!

[akdaman1]

link - http://www.gamecubeland.com/index.php?page=news&news_id=1671

i never played this game b4 cause i hate comptuer games , but if its on the gamecube ill buy it.  

[Cap]

well its possible since nintendo made that deal with ea to bring 20 games to the gc, but i'll hold out for an official announcment.

edit: ea did make this game didnt they?  

[AManatee]

Isnt that the online game?

[mouse_clicker]

EA did indeed make it, and I think it just has a very popular online portion, although the entire thing could be online, I'm not sure.

[d_bomb_23]

that would be really really good

altho it is best online,im pretty sure its still good offline

[d_bomb_23]

would there be any chance that this would be online for the gamecube?

[Stewpot]

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Originally posted by: mouse_clicker
EA did indeed make it, and I think it just has a very popular online portion, although the entire thing could be online, I'm not sure.

I have spent a lot of time playing this game along with the subsequent expansion pack.  It has a single player story type mode, but the real great part of this game is the online play and especially the Lan play.  I am lucky enough to have friends that get together to Lan.  We play this game for hours on end.  It would be interesting to see how this game would translate to the cube.  There many different vehicles you can control from subs to tanks to airplanes.  We will have to see if this is only a rumor or not!

[Mannypon]

since online is prob not goin to happen for it on the GC I hope we at least get LAN options for it.

[Fish]

Lets asssume for a second it indeed is coming for Cube, then would it be console exclusive? Is it planned fo some other console?

[Infernal Monkey]

It was planned for the Xbox, but I believe they canned it. I'll be a happy camper if it does indeed make it to GameCube. I've tasted the game on PC in a LAN. I'd like to see how single player holds up.

*Crashes planes into own team mates*

[rpglover]

i have played the game for a while too- it is one of my favorite online shooters right now
the real fun in the game is the online aspect- you can join which ever side you want to in an online war- it truely is fun
basically each side in an online battle starts with 100-200 men on the side, and in the online mode, you can join either side to destroy the enemy- once you die, you can take control of another soldier untill there are no more to control or none left at all- it is very fun because it is not just shooting- you can take control of any vehicle- from boats, planes, tanks, and transport vehicles- and it is a hell of a lot of fun doing it- i love the game very much- it is very fun to play- the single player on the other hand is not much- its alright to play, but the game's fun truely lies within its multiplayer i would say- if it is indeed coming to gc then shooter fans are in for a real treat

[dmcollin]

100 to 200 players, and you can switch??? I dont think you have been playing bf1942.  Its a max of 64 players.  Yes the game was supposed to be ported to the xbox but since ea and ms have been on bad terms and the port was canned so they could work on the expansions (road to rome, and the up coming secret weapons).  Personally I doubt that ea will put the game out on the gamecube for a couple reasons.  First, the lack of internet/online games for the gamecube.  Second, the game requires a lot of graphics/cpu power and I would doubt that even the xbox could really handle it.  Just for reference the game requires a geforce 3, 1.2GHz cpu, and 512MB ram for the game to run smoothly, without serious slowdowns.

Now if EA could pull it off I would hope somehow it would be compatible with the pc version at least.  I also think that this would be a perfect game for launch of the next nintendo console.  It would help nintendo in the online arena and would show Nintendo's interest for online and help get ea sports titles to support online for nintendo platforms.

[Griffin]

Yeah, he should have said each side has 100-200 LIVES shared among the teammates, but only up to 32 players per side (on fast servers, of course).

[rpglover]

sorry- griffin has it exactly right- thats what i should have said

[Cap]

it appears that nintendo messed up. heres part of the reply that cube-europe got to their inquiries about the game:


"Unfortunately, I can confirm that due to a production error while compiling the video for the show, the logo of Battlefield 1942 slipped into the line-up of EA titles. There is currently no GameCube version of this title planned or announced. "

good job nintendo.

[Mario]

Huh? How did Nintendo mess up?

[akdaman1]

i think that thats just an coverup and that it will soon be announced

[Cap]

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Originally posted by: Mario
Huh? How did Nintendo mess up?

nintendo made the video that featured a game that isnt coming to the system. why not throw in videos of halo and grant theft auto while they were at it?

theres always the possibility that nintendo and ea just arent ready to announce the game, but i'm doubtful after reading about the online aspects of the game.