I've heard great things about this game, I think I'll check it out through Steam if the servers are still active enough and there are no major gameplay balance issues.
I played BF1942 at a LAN cafe, then I bought BF:Vietnam and BF2, and BF2 was by far my favorite but I stopped playing in 2006. I haven't played a BF game since BF2, and I was really excited to find out that it had been revived through the Revival project. It's legally considered abandonware since EA stripped it of so much functionality by not replacing the GameSpy servers when they went down, so you can download the Revival Launcher and play for free now. They patched the dolphin diving out of the game and it's even more fun now.
Link to the Revival Launcher project:
Battlelog.co