Heroes of the Pacific
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- Fight the Pacific's most epic and action-packed WWII air battles
- Missions based on true events and accurate historical footage
- Command a total of 36 authentic-looking and fun-to-fly WWII aircraft
- Arcade- and professional-style controls; 6 different game modes
- Multiplayer action with up to 8 players online
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impossible to customize or adjust sensitivity and thus not playable
Rating: 1 / 5
Overall I gave this game a generous 3-4 stars. The graphics are great, the games are great, cool missions. My 15 yr old easily mastered the flying and coordination required on the controls. Even my 4 yr old was able to fly the planes w/o crashing and is starting to get the hang of firing missles.
My BIG OBJECTION is the FOUL LANGUAGE both on the audio and the printed commentary -this is clearly R-rated and unnecessary unless part of the objective is to learn to swear like a sailor. Words like: G__D___, D___, A__, Bast____, and “mother” fly nearly as fast as the bullets. We were able to turn off the commentary in audio options, but cannot clean up the on-screen words. There is something lost when you can’t hear radio communication and have to read the screen instead. Is there a way to play w/o being bombed by offensive language???
Also the blood spatters on the canopy are a little gross butyou can almost ignore them because they go away and are not in your line of vision. And they’re not coming from a body. I thought it was oil at first…
Though the writers may have thought these things make the game more realistic, it took away some of the fun-factor for us.
Rating: 3 / 5
This game is a WWII flight sim similar to Crimson Skies. The action is fun and well paced, taking you through missions involving dogfighting against hundreds of planes at a time. Attacks against ships and ground targets will show a fair amount of variety.
As missions are completed, new planes are unlocked. The planes can be upgraded. Each upgrade introducing better weapons, armor, and/or agility.
You plane will fly with wingmen and as part of larger attack forces. In some cases, the battle will go on around you while you complete your specific goal. The difficulty is such that you will easily become the hero of every battle and you will feel as though you are single handedly winning every battle.
The computer AI is fairly predictable. As you fly over ground targets, you will be shot at. Enemy bombers will fly straight to their target, even when you begin strafing their formation. The only time they will take evasive action is when they begin the bombing run. Enemy fighters will scatter as you approach, and will manuever for a good shot.
The game can be completed in less than 10 hours. Their are enough missions to have some replay value, but most people will play it once through.
The game does have xbox live capability and will allow up to 8 online players in a match.
I’d recommend this game for a rental first.
Rating: 3 / 5
This is actually a very fun shooter-type game. I wouldn’t call it a flight simulator as the physics don’t feel too realistic, but nevertheless, it’s very fun. In a videogame, what more could you ask for?
The missions are actually somewhat engaging – the cut scenes are nice and add some historic background to what you’re doing. It would’ve been nice, though, to have some kind of pilot interaction between missions like you did in the Wing Commander series.
Anyways, I only have a few complaints:
1) Of all the planes you can unlock, why isn’t the Me-109 an option? The 109 was the backbone of the Luftwaffe, and a very beautiful machine to look at. Some of those planes they added in the game never saw action in the war.
2) There’s not much room for maneuver. Although the flying isn’t as restricted as Star Wars Battlefront, you still have to turn your plane around because of the limited flying space. Also, your plane stalls before you can reach a nice altitude. If you try a split-S, you’ll barely clear the ground as you pull up.
3) You should have way more options for Instant Action. In all of the flight games I’ve played, you could always tweak the number of opponents and what kind of plane they fly in. Here, you can only pick your plane type, the map, and the difficulty level. I wanted to setup a few sorties where I fought Yak’s in my FW-190.
4) The game is a little too user-friendly for beginners. On Ace Level, the computer is still pretty darn easy. You have to fly on Professional Mode to add any sort of challenge for newbies.
5) It would’ve been nice to see a limit on ammunition. This would prompt gamers to be more accurate with the trigger. If there was a cap on ammunition, I never noticed it.
Rating: 4 / 5
The multiplayer is this titles saving grace. compaired to IL=2 Sturmovic: Birds of Prey this game is sub-par amatuer hour.
Rating: 3 / 5