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The Rat Patrol (1966)
Doesn't take it for me
I first saw the Rat Patrol when I borrowed season 2 from my Uncle. To put it in plane words, I don't really like the show at all. Why don't I like it? Most of the plots are weak. They are resolved way to easily. Even though they are often assigned challenging missions 90% of the time they pull through quite easily. The acting is OK, Troy however bothers me. His character isn't consistent. He'll lay down hard on his men but when it comes to himself he often does what he tells his men not too. I think his sternness or tough guy attitude is somewhat fake. And I am just personally annoyed by him too some extent. Well then there's Moffitt, he is much better then Troy, in my opinion a much better actor. The only flaw I have with him is his bad jokes get annoying at times. Tully and Hitch are OK. Dietrich is in my opinion the best part of the show. His character amuses me. He is perfect for the, bad guy who is not so bad, character he plays. The one thing that really ruins the show is; Captain Dietrich, who seems to be an intelligent man, is defeated again and again by the Rat Patrol. The show would be much more amusing if The two enemies had more challenging battles, where both would have to use there heads instead of the Rat Patrol super-manning through all their challenges and slaughtering their stupid Nazi counterparts. As for authenticity well it is poor. The uniforms have the WWII Look and are OK for most people but as a Reenactor I can pick them apart. First off the tan uniforms they wear in each episode would not be worn in combat. They look like Summer Khaki Dress Fatigues. The proper uniform would be Olive Drab Wool pants and shirts. Troy wears some kind of tall jack boot. Tully and Hitch wear German Low Quarter boots, with British Gators, and Moffitt wear US rough outs. Well all the US guys should be wearing low boots and leggings and Moffitt should be wearing low boots and gators. The worst thing of all is the bazaar guns they carry in the First season. They seem to be some kind of MP40 or MP41 with a custom wooden stock, and with a weird looking barrel added on. I think the Rat Patrol would be much better if they had done these three things: Made them into 45 minute episodes so the Plot could develop more. Strengthen the tension between Troy and Dietrich. Get rid of most of the Jeep battles and have more Guerrilla, Sabator type fighting. Yes I know a big part of the Show was the Jeep battles but they are just a bit corny. The German bullets just seem to completely miss the Rat Patrol's jeeps completely every time. Also I don't think a 50 cal machine gun can blow up a Half Track. My little brothers like it but it just doesn't take it for me.
Battlefield: 1942 (2002)
A good fun game.
Battlefield 1942 is not like the regular WWII FPS(First person shooter).
Single Play:
In single play there are 16 maps you can choose from: Pacific Maps:
Wake Island, Iwo Jima, Guadalcanal, and Midway Eastern Front maps: Berlin, Stalingrad, Kharkov, and Kursk North African Maps: Gazala, Tobruk, El Alamein, and Operation Battleaxe Western Europe maps: Omaha Beach, Bocage, Battle of the Bulge, and Market Garden
Some have more Aircraft based fighting, some have more tank based fighting and some more ground troop fighting. Most of the maps are reasonably big, they feature hills, cities, water, bridges, trees and houses. You can concentrate on your mission or just go around racing in jeeps or doing stunts in your plane. You can do a wide variety of things, shooting, knifing, flying, driving, swimming, planting mines or explosives. The AI look very stupid as in the way they move there bodies. When they walk they often move there heads and arms all around making them look very dumb. You can set the AI on easy, medium, hard, or impossible. On each of the settings they move there bodies stupidly but are still deadly. They can strafe you in planes, shoot your plane down on flak guns, snipe you, plant mines and many other things. When the enemy AI come close to you they will crouch or go into prone. They are very accurate when you set them to hard or impossible. Graphic wise the game is OK. The terrain is very flat looking. You can usually go inside of most buildings but they generally look very simple. On my windows XP the BF1942 and runs very smoothly. One of its expansion packs "Secret Weapons" is glitchy on many maps. Authentic wise its OK. Tanks, weapons, and uniforms are mostly correct. There are some issues such as: The British have Thompson's as their SMG's and BAR's as their assault weapon when there SMG should be a sten and the assault weapon should be a Bren LMG. The US have a Lee Enfield as their main rifle when it should be an M1 Garand or Springfield. The Russians also have the Lee Enfield as their rifle when they should have Mosin Nagats.
All the weapons sound and look fine except the M1 Garand has the bolt on the wrong side. Tanks, planes, and cars are easy pretty easy and simple to use. One great thing about BF1942 is its is easily MODed and there are tons of mods out that you can download. I suggest this game if your looking for a change in pace from the COD and MOH Style game play.