Battlefield is a hugely successful pedigree of gaming brilliance. With huge, open maps that are filled with players, tanks and jeeps that are all under a dogfight-dominated sky, it's easy to see why the game was so successful. Who doesn't want to bomb people as they're taking the flag? Who doesn't want to parachute onto a capture point, skillfully take out the enemies guarding it and secure yourself 30 points, whilst looking awesome and feeling like James Bond's slightly more badass son?

Well, if you do (and who doesn't?), BF1943 is the game for you. At just £10/$15 on the Playstation Store, this game is an absolute steal, despite it's flaws. Just like other Battlefield games, the maps are huge and, if you've played Battlefield online before, you'll probably recognise the maps. It comes with 3, Wake Island, Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima, plus Coral Sea, which was unlocked after 43 million kills was reached and is an Air Superiority only map. Air Superiority is exactly as it sounds - everyone gets in a plane and dogfights. Meanwhile, the usual mode is the zone capture affair you might expect from Battlefield.

The game runs, for the most part, perfectly. There hasn't been a single crash whilst we've been playing it, though there are a few bugs. Voice chat doesn't work properly, which will hopefully be fixed at some point in the future, and black rectangles continually flash on the screen over some objects and behind your plane - it doesn't happen often, but when it does it's a little distracting and can obscure your view of some enemies, which can obviously be fatal. Other than that, the game looks great; the graphics are bright and vibrant in a way that suits the setting (Pacific Theater), and the draw distance is, as you'd expect from Battlefield, huge, enabling you to snipe people from the other side of the map (provided you're very, very good with a sniper rifle).

There are three classes; Rifleman, Infantry and Scout. The Rifleman has, well a rifle, grenades and rifle grenades for the secondary weapon, which are grenades that you shoot off the end of your rifle. When you've used them all, there's a short cool down time until they simply respawn in your inventory, ready to blow someone up. Choosing Infantry will give you a machine gun, an anti-tank rocket launcher as secondary and grenades, whilst the Scout has a sniper rifle, remote-detonated TNT (perfect for laying traps) and a pistol. Primary weapons have infinite ammo, so you only have to worry about running out of ammo in your clip in the middle of firefights. Which will happen. Multiple times.

Vehicle controls are a little strange at first, with L1 being accelerate and L2 being brake/reverse, but you get used to them quickly enough. Planes can take a little longer to get to grips with, but the controls themselves work fine. You can choose between either an in car/cockpit view for all vehicles or a third person (third vehicle?) view, though if you're using a machine gun on the back of a jeep the third person view is a little useless, as there's no aiming reticule. Planes are equipped with machine guns and what must be the least effective bombs in the history of the planet - it is incredibly hard to actually kill someone, even when you get a dead on hit it doesn't always kill them.

Overall, the BF1943 is well worth the price of admission. It could do with a few more maps, for which we will cross our fingers, but £10/$15 is a steal that just can't be ignored. If you like FPS games you owe it to yourself to get this game.