BATTLEGROUP42 PACIFIC: ISLAND ASSAULT
COMPLETE WORLD WAR TWO PACIFIC ACTION COMES TO THE BFV ENGINE!
It's time to fight the bloody Pacific campaign from the skies over Pearl Harbor to the tunnels under Iwo Jima!
At long last the eagerly awaited opportunity of fighting WW2 with wide ranging accurate U.S and Japanese weapons, tanks and planes on the currently most advanced Battlefield engine has arrived! This Friday, Battlegroup42:Pacific is released for the Battlefield:Vietnam engine. This is the first release of the Battlegroup42 Historical Accuracy and Teamwork Mod on the BFV engine, and this release concentrates on the Pacific theatre. Besides content from BG42 and specially built items for this release, it not only includes all the DICE BF42 Pacific maps but also converted Battlegroup42 BF42 maps, community BF42 maps and a bunch of new BFV WW2 maps. It also incorporates content from the Battlegroup42 (BF42), The Lost Battalion and Operation Anubis mods.
Highlights include:
* Maps include Midway, Coral Sea, Gavutu, Angaur, Pearl Harbor, Iwo Jima Tunnels, Tarawa, Peleliu and Philippines Liberation.
* 3D ironsights on small-arms.
* New US small-arms including the Grease Gun, M1 Carbine and deployable Browning HMG.
* New Japanese small-arms including the Katana sword, Arisaka, MP18 and deployable Woodpecker HMG.
* New US vehicles including M3 Stuart light tank, Sherman Ronson flamethrower tank, LVT4 amtrac, LVT(A)1 amphibious tank, M3 Scout car,
M50 Quad 50cal, M16 mobile quad 50cal, M3 tank destroyer, Long Tom coastal defence gun, Jimmy truck, open topped M3A1 halftrack with
sidemount 30cals.
* New Japanese vehicles including Ha-Go light tank, Ho-Ni tank destroyer, Te-Ke tankette, 8inch coastal defence gun, Ho-Ki personnel carrier, Isuzu truck.
* New aircraft including F4F-3 Wildcat, rocket firing P-38 Lightning, B5N Kate and G4M Betty. Also napalm-carrying Corsair on Iwo Jima
(one of the first combat uses of the bomb).
* New ships including the Essex and Taiho.
* New effects including vehicle exhausts, tank flamethrower, vehicle headlights on night maps, breath condensation on cold maps, smoke grenades,
smoke columns from burning vehicles, and dogfighting smoke trails.
Your country is calling you!
Enlist at 1800GMT on Friday 6th May 2005 on a server near you.