History Channel Battle For The Pacific 3

Relive history’s most unforgiving battlefields!Product InformationThe History Channel takes you to the Battle for the Pacific where you willexperience history brought to life in one of the defining campaigns of World WarII.  Relive epic land battles fought on galore of the most brutal andunforgiving battlefields in recorded history.  Retake strategicallyimportant locatings all around the Pacific Theatre that are critical to the allieson the Road to Tokyo.Play through the eyes of an American GI as you experience intense no holdsbarred action versus an contestant for which surrender isn’t an option! Fire authentic allied and axis weaponry including sub-machine guns sniperrifles anti-aircraft guns pistols and grenades Relive History – each levelbegins with a documentary video featuring actual battle footage key facts andstatistics and the importance that the battle ultimately played in the alliedvictory.Fight from Guadalcanal to Iwo Jima as you experience savage battles versus anenemy for which surrender isn’t an option! Product Features Authentically modeled WWII weapons Actual battlegrounds including Guadalcanal The Philippines Iwo Jima and more Heart-pounding missions that changed the face of the globe Fight from Henderson Field in Guadalcanal through the Philippines to Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima. Experience a heap of of the most exotic and forbidden battlefields including dense jungles and barren volcanic islands. Face the harsh realities of war as you engage the enemy on the frontlines. Fight alongside squadron members reacting to the events of the battlefield where fighting is ofttimes hand to hand and your goal to be attained is simple – defeat the enemy at all costs. Based on actual battles including storming the beaches in an amphibious assault recapturing a strategic airfield defending versus an enemy assault going on a search and demolish mission fighting through fortified caves and scaling Mount Suribachi to plant the American

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34 of 35 people found the following review helpful.
Very, very dispointing/Complete Waste of Money
By Walter Skinner
This game was extremely disappointing. It sounded like a good idea, pairing up with the History Channel to create realistic battles from the Pacific theater. However, this game is quite lacking in many areas.

The game-play started to get repetitively boring and pointless on the first level, and stayed the same throughout the entire game. Most frustrating was the lack of freedom your character actually has in the game. You are forced to follow a computer controlled leader that can never die. If you you don’t keep up with him, the game ends, and it says “Mission Failed.” If you take too long fighting some Japanese after he and the other computer GI’s have run off, “Mission Failed.” If you do anything except stay next to him the entire time, “Mission Failed” regardless of whether or not there has been a single shot fired yet.

You also have to stay on only one path throughout the game. It looks like the area of play is really big, and you could go anywhere, but it’s just an illusion. You have a very narrow strip of area to play in, and you can hardly spend any time in one area, because you are being dragged along this little narrow path.

The graphics are nothing to be excited about either; if this game was released 4 or 5 years ago, that would be different. Every single Japanese soldier was exactly the same. What happened to the different kinds of soldiers, the uniforms, the officers with their swords? That got really boring after a while. One of the worst aspects of this war was the civilian casualty rate on these islands. Yet not one civilian is to be seen anywhere during the entire game; not people, no villages, or anything.

The AI of the enemies is terrible as well. While the Japanese were famous for suicidal bayonet charges and such, they were also brilliant at land combat strategy, and jungle-warfare, and are horribly misrepresented by the terrible AI in this game.

And lastly, most dissapointing for me was that the entire Battle of Okinawa was left completely out of the game. Okinawa had the fiercest and worst ground battles of anywhere in the Pacific, with the Japanese dug into the island’s castle ruins as command posts; and yet it was left out completely.

The game was easy to beat in about two days of playing a couple hours each day. And there’s not much point and playing it again after that, since there’s nothing that you could have missed the first time around; nothing new to discover because of the game’s stupid restrictions.

In closing, I feel that this game is a complete waste of money.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
The fun war game
By Kenneth E. Sutphin
I does not know why in this game is not more popular. It is hard to find other people on the Internet to play against but I am fortunate that my grandson has a copy so we battle. I think the game is fun can you get a large variety weapons. Maybe not as much fun as call of duty 4 but it is good sometimes have a little change. He did not have all the bells and whistles is some of the more expensive warnings that if you’re just into shooter fun I think you would like this.

0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
The most linear game ever.
By J. Lundberg
Battle For The Pacific has got to be the most linear game I have ever played. The freedom is completely and totally taken away from you. I can’t actually believe they made a game this way. You are literally forced to follow a leader the entire game. You want to stay behind a little just to finish off some enemies? Mission failed! You take a little longer than the rest of the troops to follow the leader? Mission failed! This is totally unacceptable for any game. The leader calls out “you will follow me and that’s an order” over and over again until the level ends and the same thing starts all over again.

Don’t get suckered in by the screenshots you see of this game. The graphics are the best thing about the game but you only get seconds to enjoy them because if you don’t stay right on the leader’s butt the mission will fail. You can’t get out to explore the graphics at all because you are being roped along a very narrow linear path of the leader.

The game itself is short….very short. Each of the linear levels is only minutes long. You could easily finish this game in one day if you wanted. As far as bugs, sometimes the leader will get stuck and just sit there until you move ahead a little too. There’s also a bug that I encountered with the options in the pc version. No matter what I chose as the “interact” key, it would not work in the game unless I set it back to the default “E” key. This game has console port written all over it.

The enjoyment factor is completely ripped away from you by forcing you to follow a leader. Just check the major gaming reviews of this game. They are terrible and mainly because of how linear this game is. Battle For the Pacific should be listed as “unavailable” here. No one should ever pay for a terrible game like this.

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