Battlefield 1943 (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3)

Its OK, but on most islands you have to swim about 10 miles to get to the action, and theres no escape once someone starts shooting you, since you have VERY low health. But if they just fixed those two things, it would be great.

you are fighting for america

I started playing tis game's prequel at age 10, there is no blood and the gore is not excessive. My only concerns are nasty choking sounds that enemies make when they die, and the immorality of playing as the axis,which can be encouraged, because they have better weapons

Battlefield has always been a great series, and this is the best yet. Some things are really glitchy, like the Sniper Rifles being VERY underpowered, or random air raids that have almost no escape. Its probably still the best in the series, but not quite as good as Warhawk or Conduit though. One other thing is that its probably the closest to WAW you can get without all the blood and cussing, so get this or any Battlefield before you get COD.

This game is just awesome. you fight historical battles online with other people.So you can talk to people.but you dont have to. there is constant violence, but nothing you wouldnt see in a war movie. the graphics are top notch too.

I had a lot of fun playing BF 1943, and it doesnt have blood or language so it might be a good game for people who aren't allowed to play COD. There is some violence (which you should probably know just by seeing the title) where you kill enemies with rifles, machine guns, grenades, turrets, and bayonetts, and you can also use jeeps, tanks, and planes to kill people. Also some parents might be concerned that online you can play on the japanese side and kill americans.

Battlefield: 1943 is one of the best games around. It combines fascinating settings, a variety of weapons and vehicles and the good, plain fun of randomly blowing things up with a rocket-propelled grenade. Deaths are not by any means scary; players fall to the ground when shot, and are flung a few yards when killed by an explosion. Blood is absent. Soldiers will sometimes shout mild curses, but they are hard to hear with the whole 'war' thing going on in the background. If your child wants a violent game like Battlefield: Bad Co. 2 or Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, ask them to consider this instead. They'll probably like like it. DISMISSED!

First of all I don't think this game should be 'iffy' for 13 year olds. There is no blood, but the battles are epic, so it's mostly the parent's call and based on the kid for that one. The game is a very high quality game as downloadable games go. It puts you right into an up to 24 person battle complete with tanks, planes, jeeps, transport ships, and air raids you can call in. Like the other battlefield games there are bases to capture across the map, and as you capture bases and kill enemies the opposing team's team life bar thingy decreases. The game has three great island maps: Wake Island, Iwo Jima, and Guadalcanal. There is also an Air Superiority one which is a dogfight and that is a separate option. You may expect with such big maps that you might find yourself far from the main battles and just running across the map trying to get to the battle. That is not the case with Battlefield 1943. When you are choosing where to spawn it shows crossed rifles on the base in question, so you can spawn there and fight. That icon is also sort of like a gps thing you get when you are running around. Another thing that helps you get right into the battle is the squad system. When you join you may join a squad and when you die you can choose a living squad member to respawn next to. To add to the great action, the buildings will blow up or catch fire when it makes sense, just like every other part of the map. No longer will tanks have to carefully weave around trees and fences. In Battlefield 1943 you can barrel them down, or bazooka them down. And say you're driving a tank and someone steps out of a building, shoots a shell at you, and then ducks back into the building. No problem, just blast the wall and it will collapse, revealing the player or killing them. There are three classes, none of which are overpowered. Another thing that makes the battles epic is if you control a base that has a radio dish pillbox you can use it to control a formation of three bombers and do a whole wave of bombs over the battlefield. Now for the small problems with the game. First of all, I still don't know if it's the game or my wifi but I've been having lag issues on and off. One day it's running fine, then the next morning my guy is running past the same rock three times. The other problem is I hate the controls on the jeeps. On the Playstation 2 X has always been gas, but now somebody decided L1 could be gas and L2 is brakes. This is fine with the tank because if you're using X to speed up you can't use that thumb to aim the turret, but there's no point to it with the jeep. Lastly the tanks are WAAAY overpowered. I know tanks are supposed to dominate a war realistically but I don't think it's fair that these tanks have 360 degree rotating turrets with not only a shell launcher but a machine gun, both of which are controlled by the driver. If another person goes on top, it is virtually unstoppable because I think it takes more than 2 bazooka hits, but I'm not positive because I never get a second one in! The scouts have the ability to plant remotely detonated charges so they should be able to run up and do so while the main gun is reloading but really if they try that the driver-controlled secondary machine gun gets them.