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Forgotten Hope is a computer game mod for the first-person shooter Battlefield 1942. It features expanded World War II-related content and more realistic gameplay balance. A version of Forgotten Hope has also been developed for Battlefield 2. It features roughly 260 totally new vehicles as well as 50 new maps. A mod called Pacific Shores merged with Forgotten Hope, bringing a host of extra World War 2 Pacific theatre content.
Though Forgotten Hope is a mod, mods of the game have been created. Norwegian Resistance, for example, is a partial conversion and content addition which adds the battles during in World War II that deal with Norway. Another major mod is a client-side, Forgotten Hope Realism Mod that is primarily a sound and texture pack, though later versions added some custom maps as well. One key feature is that it adds more historically correct skins, such as swastikas on equipment and uniforms.
Further add-ons include a sound and texture pack, which replaces large numbers of vehicle and soldier skins and equipment/weaponry sounds, as well as an unofficial, fan-made map pack consisting of several additional maps.
The current version of the mod for Battlefield 1942 is 0.70, which was released at the end of October in 2005. The developers have said this is the last major release for this engine, though another smaller patch was not ruled out. As with older versions, there will also be a number of fan-made map packs released as well. Right now the majority of efforts are concentrated on developing Forgotten Hope 2 for Battlefield 2, basing it during World War II, and, as of the first release, will be set only in the North African theater of operations, to ease the development process. The other fronts of the war will be added in later versions.