This sometimes negatively affected reviews. Nearly six months later Battlefield 1942: Secret Weapons of WWII began to be sold at stores for thirty dollars, ten dollars more than the originally conceived twenty dollar price tag. The expansion pack was officially announced at E3 2003 although, there was significant speculation preceding the announcement that Electronic Arts was making a second expansion pack to Battlefield 1942. However, there are only four maps which have the Jet Pack in them. As opposed to other weapons, the Jet Pack is not unique to one faction, and instead, it can be found at one or more locations throughout a particular map as an item that replaces the player's current equipment. To maintain gameplay balance, the Jet Pack is very susceptible to blowing up while under fire, instantly killing the player. Īlso of special note is the Jet Pack, which allows players to fly in the air while firing a weapon. Even with the creation of these new factions, all the maps in the expansion pack are Axis versus Allies, as is the custom in the Battlefield series. They also have unique vehicles that are only available at their bases. Each faction has unique weapons to their faction that can only be obtained by playing as that faction or picking them off a fallen enemy soldier. The accompanying update package 1.41 introduces an additional three new factions, USMC, RAF, and Luftwaffe. The default Allied (US) Army and Axis (German) Army have received new weapons and vehicles in addition to the creation of two entirely new factions, the SAS ( British Commandos) and the German Elite Troops (the Waffen-SS and the Fallschirmjager). If the Allied forces successfully fulfill these objectives, the German tickets are drastically reduced, usually winning the game for the Allies. For example, on Essen, the German forces must prevent Allied forces from destroying key portions of a weapons factory. Ī gameplay mode introduced in Secret Weapons of WWII is an objective-based mode in which players focus on accomplishing specific objectives to win the battle. (A team loses tickets when its members are killed, but also when the other team holds a majority of the capture points on a map.) Even more so than in Battlefield 1942, the weapons in Secret Weapons of WWII are designed to be used in unison with other weapons to compensate for weaknesses and maximize strengths. Usually, the team that works together more effectively wins by reducing the enemies tickets to zero in a classic 'Conquest' mode.

As in Battlefield 1942, players play the role of a soldier in a two-sided battle and can choose which weapons and/or vehicles they want to use in accomplishing this task of victory on the battlefield.

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