EA Rolls Out Secret Weapons of WWII Demo
Demo for Battlefield 1942 Expansion will be
Available Friday, August 8
Get ready for a World War II experience like
you’ve never imagined. Weapons and vehicles from the Allied and Axis
laboratories are about to see combat for the first time in the stand-alone
multiplayer demo for Battlefield 1942™: Secret Weapons of WWII, the incredible
new expansion pack for the 2002 Game of the Year.
Prepare yourself for all-out war in the
Battlefield 1942: Secret Weapons of WWII demo, available August 8, 2003 at the
official BF1942 website:
www.battlefield.ea.com.
In 1944, the locals of a small Dutch town named
Hellendoorn witnessed an odd site on an almost daily basis: a huge missile
rising from the forest on a tower of fire and smoke. The Germans had aimed most
of these powerful V2 rockets at Antwerp, but now they have a new target: the
bridge at Remagen, Germany. If they can destroy this bridge, they can slow down
the Allied advance across the Rhine River and into the heart of Germany. Can the
Germans launch its missile in time to defeat the Allied campaign? In the all-new
Hellendoorn mission, just one of eight new campaigns in Secret Weapons of WWII,
the fate of the war is in your hands.
The demo also unleashes the power of ten of the
16 new weapons in Secret Weapons of WWII. Fly and fight at the same time with
the experimental German rocket pack, or buzz the skies in one of the new compact
dynamo fighter planes-the Axis Natter rocket plane or the Allied F-85 Goblin.
Both the Axis and Allies also have new motorcycles with machine gun-mounted
sidecars, as well as amphibious assault vehicles: the German Schwimmwagen and
the American LVT-2 Water Buffalo. The new Axis Flakpanzer, a T-38 tank with an
anti-aircraft gun mounted on top, is a nasty beast-but it looks tame compared to
the Allies’ Sherman tank with a T-34 Calliope rocket launcher.
With all this plus new hand-held weapons such as
silenced SMGs, new assault rifles, and deadly throwing knives, become a deadly
force on the most intense virtual battlefields ever created.
The retail version of Battlefield 1942: Secret
Weapons of WWII is scheduled for release for the PC in early September.
