Battlefield: 1942

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Take part in the wing, wheel, wind and willpower battle of WWII.

By IGN Staff

Stephen "Cheeks" Butts was the man in charge of reviewing Codename Eagle for the PC, a first person shooter that put you in the belly of tanks, in the lap of dogfighters, and on the soles of your aching feet in an alternate history involving a 1920s Russian conquest of Europe. While he liked it, and enjoyed the concepts behind the game, he ultimately felt that the mixture of gameplay styles just didn't come together.

What's that got to do with Battlefield: 1942? Both games come from European bigwig Digital Illusions, and one is the natural progression of the other. Battlefield may not be a sequel in technicalities, but it certainly is in spirit. WhereUpdate at 2:43 p.m. ET. No Pope Today: Black smoke just poured from the chimney above the Vatican. That means, as was expected, the cardinals did not choose a pope on the first vote of their conclave to name a successor to the now-retired Pope Benedict XVI.

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