Oh yeah, I got that the day it was released! Damn impressive game- it has been quite a while since I actually went out and got a game the day it was released! Actually kind of suprised I didn't pick up the original BF1942 earlier- I've only bben playign for about a month now.
Totally agreed on the single player. The "bots" are nice- in that most games like this don't include "bots" (like WWII online, right?), so single player play is impossible. SO the bots do provide some decent practice- but boy are they DUMB!!! Maybe single player AI will be improved in later patches. All I use single player for now is basically flying practice.
But BF1942 is GREAT FUN online. Don't have access to any LANs, but my dsl handles all the servers fine. I even get good pings from servers in England!
And there do always seem to be some retards in the online servers (pub OR clan), but rarely to the point where it is not fun to play.
And... there is
www.bfstats.com. Unfortunately, a very addictive site- it tracks certain servers and the players on them. Tracks a ton of stats on your play- points, Kill/Death ratio, maps played, and overall ranking amongst monitored players.
Neat stuff!
http://www.bfstats.com/player.php?pid=220622
my stats... not too bad! Top 20% or so...