I have recently bought Battlefield 1943 off of the PlayStation Store and I think the game is great! It’s a nice, small, multiplayer-only, downloadable title that’s easy to just pick up and go. There is a tutorial level, but you can probably get the hang of the game by just playing it. The main way of getting into a game is using quick match, which automatically finds an open game and puts you in it, but you can also start a private match, or go to a match a friend is in.

The game is played in a conquest mode where you try to capture as many bases on the map as possible. Each team has a healthbar at the top of the screen. Each time someone respawns the healthbar decreases, when it reaches zero the other team wins. The more bases you have captured, the more points that come off of your enemy’s healthbar when one of them respawns.

There are 3 normal maps that are played in conquest mode, Wake Island, Guadalcanal, and Iwo Jima. There is also special fourth map, Coral Sea, that gets unlocked when the total number of kills for everyone on your console reaches 43 million(this is already unlocked on Xbox 360). Coral Sea is played in a special gametype that is only dogfighting instead of conquest mode.

The game also allows the map to be destroyed in various ways by the user, such as driving jeeps through wooded areas and taking down the trees, driving tanks through buildings, dropping bombs to destroy buildings and dent the landscape, and sending rockets through fences and walls or blowing them to parts with grenades. This can alter gameplay dramatically by allowing you to have lots of cover to use in the beginning of a match but being an open target in a shooting frenzy by the end of the match.

The PS3 version of the game seems to have voice chat problems but it is supposedly being looked into.

Overall I think it is a very good game at only $15.