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A warm welcome to you once again . As mentioned in my Start blog, I am an avid fan of Pc games, The game that I will be blogging about is Battlefield 1942 multiplayer. (Particularly the Wake Island map). The blogs are mainly about my experiences in the game, yes, the way my character went through the virtual battle. I would like to add that the blogs of mine are not exactly reviews, but I will be covering them in a decent and appreciable style. ;). I wish to convey info as a blog as not as an article. Before I proceed with the interesting nail biting action, I wish to give a small introduction to this game. Well for people who are new to it , Battlefield 1942 is a 3d World War II FPS computer game developed by Swedish company Digital Illusions CE and published by Electronic Arts for Microsoft Windows and the Apple Mac. Each battle takes place on one of s several maps located in a variety of places and famous battlefields in all of the major theaters of World War II: the Pacific, European, North African, Eastern , and Italian Fronts. Combat is always fought between the Axis Powers and the Allies. The location determines which nation-specific armies are used (for example, on the Wake Island map, it is Japan versus the United States, while on the Battle of Britain map, it is Germany versus the United Kingdom). The maps in Battlefield 1942 are based on real battles and are somewhat realistically portrayed. The game seems real while playing, but I feel it is not very realistic either, on the whole , decent looking graphics.
I am sure you will be waiting to get into the action right away, but I wish to convey the basic units used in the game, so that when you go through my descriptions, you will be having fun.

Welcome to the Wake Island map. The battle here is a digital recreation of the war fought in the Pacific front in World War II. The Wake island map is a very popular map that is currently being played. This map recreates digitally the war between the American and Japanese forces in the year 1942. ‘Wake Island’ is a corel atoll in the Pacific Ocean with a coastline of twelve miles, or nineteen kilometers. It is about 2/3rds of the way from Honolulu to Guam. (This is the real fact about Wake Island,info: Wikipedia).
The battle takes place between the ALLIES (USA) and AXIS (Japan) . You can choose to play either as an American soldier or as a Japanese war man. The player can choose any one of the following five roles: Scout, Assault, Anti-Tank, Medic, and Engineer. I’ll tell you more about these soldier types a bit later. On the Wake island, there are five different posts or positions. (or rather bases, as it is like to be called). They are:
(in the order of North to south):

• The village
• The North Base,
• The Airfield,
• The Landing beach, and
• The South base.

At the start of the game, each Team is assigned a number of tickets. A team wins when the opponent’s ticket count reaches zero. A team can do this either by killing the members of the opposing team , or by capturing bases. The bases are also known as ‘Control points’ on the map.
I would like to use the word ’Japs’ or ‘Americans’ instead of team. The Japanese forces can defeat the Americans by quickly holding all the control points on the map. The American forces can defeat the Japanese by gradually but steadily holding all the control points the island offers.
At the beginning of the game, enter your user name, rather ‘Game name’ as you would like to be called and then choose the server in which you would like to start playing.
After that, you are presented with the choice of either playing for the Japs or the US.
(in the example in the picture above (in the menu), I chose US).

(Pic #1)

There is another menu with a display of the various weapons available.You can either choose to play as a Scout, Assault, Anti Tank, Medic or Engineer. I’ll cover these types shortly, as the choices you make at this stage will determine to a large extent your experience in this game.
In the pic, you can see a map. Well, that’s the ‘Wake island’ map.
(I have put the map pic separately for your convenience).


(Pic #2)


I would again like to emphasize that knowing this game’s rules will definitely help the reader to have fun when going through my blogs. Yes, moving on, (I have explained the map in pic #3 (I’ve made the marking)




(Pic#3)

There are in all 5 control points by default in the game’s map. The map which I am showing you here is the original map(without mod) ,and is the most played by players. Any other maps, too, I will be covering in my later blogs.
Near the south base, you can see an arrow mark(with a blow arrow inside). Well, that is the player’s current position. That is your position when you’re playing the game. I was at the south base when I took this snapshot. ;)
The white circles with the flag indicate a Control point, and the Flag beside it indicates that either the Jap or American team has taken it. According to the sample map which I have put in pic #3, I can spawn in any of the Control points. I can only spawn as an American soldier (ALLIES). The Team’s flag will be next to the white circle, which means he/she can spawn there and play for his team. Whereas if you opt to play as a Jap soldier and try to spawn then search for the white circle near the Japanese flag to spawn and play.
Two squares with a small line indicate Tanks, the plane is shown by the ‘Plane icon’ and a smaller rectangle indicates the armored vehicle, and a still more smaller rect., indicates a jeep. The ALLIES team appears to the respective team members in Blue. That is all scouts, vehicles and planes appear in Blue on the map. In the case of the AXIS, the color is Red.

Thank you for reading., (but don’t go away yet), in the next blog I’ll be telling you about the weapons available and the type of soldier you can opt for while playing this map, so that we can get ahead with the hair raising action ..


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