So I've been playing a lot of Battlefield: 1942.
It's a very solid multiplayer experience. I absolutely love the simplicity behind the operation of just about everything within the game. With very little training, you can jump right in. Run your infantry ass over to that Jeep and drive it to the Tank and use it to bombard the enemy or shoot down enemy planes with the machine gun on top. Or dive that Submarine just to periscope depth and fire off torpedoes to sink the enemy battleship. Desert, island, and city maps.
There's so much to do, and so little time to do it in. I haven't had it long enough to fully explore all the maps. If you're into this kind of thing, you're actually hurting yourself, by not rushing out and buying this game. I kid you not. At the very least, you should jaunt over and download the multiplayer demo. Do it. Now!
Don't get me wrong, I have my grips. You can't enter any structure that's not open (e.g., you can't open closed doors), and flying the planes take a lot of practice. Weapons, do not cause damage to buildings or terrain. It would be groovy if a building could be leveled with tank fire, but it can't. And I don't quite have the feeling my machine gun is actually hitting the enemy sometimes (It could be a range-issue. I don't know for certain, but they could be trying to somewhat accurately portray the weapons of the time and that would mean I'm not getting the same range as weapons in Team Fortress. Or it could just be that I suck.)
However, on the whole, it's completely taken over my on-line FPS fix. Hell, it's taken over almost all my computer time. I'm spending way too much time on it and, consequently, not getting near enough sleep at night. Because I always have to see what the next map is. And it's usually one I haven't played yet, so I want to run around a bit and check it out. Last night it was "Berlin". Those smashed cities maps, with scant areas to move in, piles of rubble and half-building facades are some of the best I've played so far. Some have tanks (Oooh Russian tanks) and those look downright scary when you run yourself around the corner and there's one sitting there. Plus all the great sniper and ambush positions. Fantastic.
So all this got me to thinking about WW2 and how there's always this idea of What If Germany Won WW2. It seems like a cliché. But, as I dwell on it, I can't ever recall actually reading any alternative-history books where that was the premise. I know there is the Philip K. Dick story, The Man in the High Castle, but seriously, beyond that, what is there?
I've got a hanker-for-a-hunker to see something. I know I've watched a few things on TV, mostly the Twilight Zone, where Germany or Japan wins WW2, but that's not what I'm looking for. Or maybe it is. I wouldn't mind seeing either fiction or non-fiction possibilities on how the war could have gone differently. I know it's all speculative, but I'm interested.
Can you point me to book or short story where this is the case? Something?
posted by Evil Wayne @ 2:56 PM
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