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Battlefield 1943 Launch Trailer

Tear it up in the Pacific on XBLA and PSN starting today.

Jul. 8 2009

Posted by: Brad

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Battlefield 1943

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Looks good!

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Edited By vibratingdonkey

More like "starting tomorrow", hopefully. Server problems.

Oh dear god, after 50-ish tries a map is finally loading. Bet I'll get disconnected. Just shot a dude in the face with a bazooka. Off to a good start.

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Yeah, due to high demand they don't have enough servers, and are adding more.

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Edited By Pie

This game is unplayable at  the moment

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As soon as my girlfriend gets up from her nap I am gonna go get this for 360.  Can't wait, hope it is as good as I am imagining and that it retains players.

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Looks like a good game. I might want to buy it once people say the servers are fixed

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@Crono: I hope your talking about getting it on XBLA , it sounds like your going to go somewhere.
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This game would be great if the servers worked...

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I didnt plan on buying this game at all...then I caved as soon as I heard the theme tune. It always gets me..

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@phlegms: Yes. I love the Battlefield signature theme. It is epic in it's total epicness. Did I mention it is epic?
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"A full retail experience for a DLC price"

3 maps is a full retail experience? Anyway, I can't wait to play it tomorrow.

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Does this game have an offline mode to play against bots?

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Played for a couple of hours, absolutely thrilling.  The planes flying over at low altitudes really make you want to jump for cover.  Great sound effects are just the icing.

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more ww2 coming

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Alright, I'll bite.

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game looks pretty aweseom...

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Yeah this game still isnt working for me...

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God, I love this music.

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One of my favourite games.

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Would be great if my 360 hadn't red ringed today.

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Edited By insanejedi
@Hairydutchman said:
" "A full retail experience for a DLC price"3 maps is a full retail experience? Anyway, I can't wait to play it tomorrow. "
Hey, Left 4 Dead came in with 4 maps for 60 bucks.
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dun dun dun dun DUN DUN. dun dun dun dun DUN DUN.

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Just wish it was on the PSN store..

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Edited By Oriental_Jams

Downloaded it four hours ago. Succeeded only in playing the tutorial, otherwise there were 'no games available' or the game would get to the joining stage and it just timed out.

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Not finding it on XBLA. Not available in Canada yet, or was it pulled?

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@kerikxi said:
" Not finding it on XBLA. Not available in Canada yet, or was it pulled? "
nope should still be there. I bought it about 3 hours ago
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Edited By egads

Its available in Canada, but isnt on the XBLA page yet (or at least it wasnt this morning).  I found it in the news section or whatever (where you would see the deal of the week and such).

Earlier this afternoon the servers were overloaded and it took me about 30 minutes to join a game that was super laggy and kicked me after about 15 minutes.  Then, after another aggravating 15 minutes, I was able to join a second game which was lag free and didn't kick me, yay!  At times our numbers were low, but they improved over time, I just waited it out.  I had a blast.

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@egads: Yeah, it doesn't have a listing in Arcade or even the All Games tab, it's only showing up on that front page. Someplace I never really look for things, honestly. It's downloading now, but sounds like it's still a little bit before it'll be reliably playable.
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It looks good, but I don't have the money to shell out for it right now.

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I really want to get this. But I'm short on dough.

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Damn and I just spent all my Microsoft points on Fallout 3 DLC looks like I might have to spent some more cash sooner then I expected.

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the music brings back memories.

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If it wasn't for the matchmaking being totally brokenn, I would be utterly enamored. With the servers in the state they're in though, I havent played too much. What I have played has been great though, classic battlefield point-capture, great-feeling weapons, and awesome intensity

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Damn thing won't even log on to the EA Online service, I'm starting to get frustrated...

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Edited By Renegade

This trailer just screams 'We want to feed off nostalgia and pick up sales for a game that's already existed for years'. On top of that, they have diluted the original game, and this is a case where addition by subtraction does not apply.

But if that's your cup of tea, then so be it.

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Edited By leeto

Gosh I still love BF1942's score, pretty nostalgic listening to this trailer.