The Bottom Line
For online warriors, it's a good, but not essential, expansion. If you have played the original maps and the free Desert Combat mod to death, Road to Rome is a reasonable expenditure.
Pros
- New maps, vehicles, weapons, armies.
- Mountain terrain is very cool.
- Improved AI.
Cons
- Fighter-bombers are a little too deadly.
- Some in-the-open spawn points are easily camped.
- Still no custom scripting capacity.
Description
- Released Feb. 4, 2003. Published by Electronic Arts.
- This is an expansion pack for the game Battlefield 1942. Battlefield 1942 is required to play.
- 6 new maps featuring battles that took place in Italy.
- 8 new vehicles, including the German BF 110 and the British Mosquito fighter-bombers.
- French and Italian forces have joined the fray, which is nice but it has little impact on gameplay.
- Engineers can mount a bayonet on their rifle for hand-to-hand combat.
- The Italian Breda Modelo .30 and the British Sten SMG have been added.
- There are a new set of multiplayer game filters which are quite helpful.
Guide Review - BF 1942: Road to Rome
With Battlefield 1942 dominating the market for war-themed multiplayer shooters, it's no surprize to see EA releasing timely expansion packs, the first of which is The Road to Rome. Expansions are usually a good idea, except that, in this case, the mod community surrounding BF is already doing an admirable job of expanding the game, and mods like Desert Combat are giving RTR some stiff competition. It does, however, make some nice additions to BF and the mountain terrain of the Italian maps is welcome. The new fighter-bombers drop a cluster of bombs, making them ridiculously lethal in the hands of a good pilot, and defenses against them seem inadequate, but that aside, there is definitely some solid new content in RTR for Battlefield fans.
