List of Battlefield 1942 Mods - Selected Releases

Selected Releases

• Action Battlefield (ActionBF), placed second in FilePlanet's Best New Mod of 2003 awards. First official mod publicly available after the release of BF1942. Was known for its original new gadgets, classes, weapons and "hollywood-style" gameplay tweaks. (Also beloved by BF1942 stuntmen) Ceased operations in 2005, but many of its features, such as the commander class, the disposable medpacks and the ability to call air strikes, to name a few, were later an inspiration and reborn in successors BF2 and BF2142. Mentioned in 1UP "Free PC Games" December, 2003 article and on various gaming web sites around the internet as well as distributed on DVD-Roms with various European and American magazines during the year 2003.

• Battlefield 1861

• Battlefield 1918 was noted by Tor Thorsen of GameSpot, and was part of a presentation with the official EA Community Team at GetBoinKed mobility 1.1 in 2005.

• Battlefield 1941

• Battlefield 40k was released in the January 2007 issue of PC Format magazine. It is based on Games Workshops Tabletop Game, Warhammer 40,000

• Battlefield Interstate 1982, mentioned in 1UP "Free PC Games" December, 2003 article. (Free PC Games "1UP.ORG" December 2003.)

• Battlefield Pirates team leader Lawrence Brown of Scurvy Cove Productions was hired by Electronic Arts as Mod Support Coordinator. It was described as a pointed as having an original theme. Am I Mod or Not? (Nieborg, 2005)

• Battlegroup42 was reviewed by Mark Sutherns in the January 2004 issue of PC Gamer UK Edition.

• Battle G.I. Joe was reviewed on About.com, by Michael Klappenbach. The mod was also contacted by Hasbro for IP issues, as noted in Am I Mod or Not? (Nieborg, 2005)

• Desert Combat, produced by Trauma Studios, was winner of FilePlanet's Best Mod of 2003 Award' and many other reviews and awards, such as the March 2003 PC Magazine. PC Gamer described it as "Desert Combat is set in the white-hot conflict zone of the Middle East and pits the United States against Iraq." Articles noted it was helped by the Iraq War, which increased the number of page views to approximately 15,000 per day, or even between 20,000 to 70,000. Desert combat was pointed out as having two mods of its own, DC Extended and Desert Combat Realism in Am I Mod or Not? (Nieborg, 2005)

• Desert Combat Extended

• Desert Combat Final

• Desert Combat Realism

• Eve Of Destruction was winner of PC Gamer 2003 Mod of the Year. They also won FilePlanets Best New Mod 2003. Dan Morris of PC Gamer noted in the March 2004 issue of PC Gamer, "While Battlefield Vietnam was still a twinkle in its developers' eyes, this standout mod debuted to a rapturous reception from the Battlefield 1942 faithful."

• Experience WWII was described in PC Gamer as having substantial changes to be historically accurate that directly impacts gameplay.

• FinnWars was featured in Pelit magazine in issue 9/2005, and PC Pelaaja in 2007. FinnWars is based in Winterwar of Finland and Soviet Union, and it contains new sounds, models and maps.

• Forgotten Honor

• Forgotten Hope, a 2003 mod that aimed at a high degree of historical accuracy, was noted for including over 250 new pieces of authentic equipment (at the time more than any other WWII-themed FPS). The mod attained 14th place in ModDB 2005 mod of the year, and won a ModDB Players Choice award in 2006. It was also awarded the Macologist Mod of the Year Award by Inside Mac Games in 2006 after the mod was ported to the Mac. It directly preceded the 2006 sequel, Forgotten Hope 2.

• Forgotten Hope Secret Weapons

• Galactic Conquest was noted for it being allowed to blatantly use Lucasarts Star Wars universe material in Am I Mod or Not? (Nieborg, 2005). Also it appeared on Slashdot twice and was mentioned in Edge Magazine in April 2004. Galactic Conquest was reviewed on TechTV's X-Play show in 2004

• Homefront, was mentioned in the March 2004 issue of PC Gamer, the article noting; "Although the site describes Home Front as a sci-fi-themed mod, make no mistake - it is Battlefield Halo."

• HydroRacers was reviewed PC ZONE magazine (UK) in 2004 by Tony Lamb, and also the Madison Courier in June 2004.

• Siege was pointed out in study by Utrecht University, both for its original concept, and its medieval warfare theme. Am I Mod or Not? (Nieborg, 2005)

• SilentHeroes won the PC ACTION-Super Mod Award in edition 07/2006 of the German gaming-magazine PC ACTION. Also, it was featured on many Norwegian and Swedish media websites, including VG, Aftonbladet and IDG.

• Stargate: Battle for Mankind, was also introduced in 2004

• Transformers

• Who Dares Wins, was reviewed in the August 2005 UK edition of PC Gamer magazine, and a copy of version 0.2 was distributed with the magazine on DVD-ROM to its readers.