- Developed with The History Channel
- Play through the eyes of an American GI
- Authentic WWII missions and weapons
- Cinematic war experience
- Play online as an American or Japanese soldier
History Channel: Battle for the Pacific X360
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(out of 34 reviews)
List Price: $ 29.99
Price: $ 13.99
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Review by Walter Skinner for History Channel: Battle For the Pacific
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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.
Review by Toby M. Edwards for History Channel: Battle For the Pacific
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As my title indicates…this game is a joke. There are five main scenarios: you run through the jungle…shooting Japanese, you run through the trenches…shooting Japanese, you run through the caves…shooting Japanese, you run through the beach…shooting Japanese, and finally you run up the mountain path…shooting Japanese.
You have to continually follow a guy that basically keeps saying the same 3 or four phrases (over and over). For the most part he shoots all the Japanese before you get there because he is faster than you. There is no real difficulty to this game and no strategy. Each mission ends and you feel you just got started. I think the designers of this game were on a low budget because each scenario is the same except for the scenery. They could extend the game by letting you run through the desert…shooting Japanese.
Sure it has good graphics if you like trenches, beaches, jungles, caves, and a single mountain path and you buy games for the graphics only. The guns are somewhat unrealistic and the sounds they make is poor. In one scenario there were three Japanese sharp shooters you had to eliminate…all you have to do is just stand there and shoot them. They are sitting together in plain view and my grandmother could do it.
If you have ever played games like Halo (1-3), Call to Duty (2-4), etc… you will find this game a waste of your money. I wish I could get my money back. Don’t buy it if you are use to playing exciting games. I went through it in about 2 hours total in normal mode. I guess the vetran mode would have more Japanese for the guy who runs in front of you to shoot….woopee.
Review by Chares Pierre for History Channel: Battle For the Pacific
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For all of those people who say that this game gives you a realistic and historical way to play through the Pacific Theatre, I say nay nay. You are basically a one man army, you can drive a PT boat by just entering it and getting on the MG and you can take down the WHOLE Japanese Army. The graphics are terrible with no depth or detail, all the enemys look alike and all the look alike too. The missions are terribly repetitive, with basically every level having you take out an MG nest or shoot down a couple of Zeros. You can take a shotgun blast to the face while holding a knife and still be able to kill the guy. This was developed by the same people who developed “The Civil War”, a crappy way to make a buck. This is a crappier way to make a buck. A cheap cash in which could have been made into a great game if it had been made by someone who knows how to make a game. On another point, the weapons kinda suck. They are general on the wepaons they have in the game(the same in every WWII game), but in those games grenades go more than 3 feet in front of you. It is a barely enjoyable title, and I would not recommend it to anyone except for those who like crappy games.
Review by Nitesh Ghavri for History Channel: Battle For the Pacific
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this game downright sucks. the gameplay is extremely poor, the graphics look like something straight out the ps2 and the sound is very basic. most frustrating aspect of this game apart from what i have already mentioned is the truly cheesy way all the soldier’s speak to one another. very unrealistic and tough to believe. if you are looking for a great 1st person shooter i would highly reccommend you avoid this and go for titles like – COD4,MEDAL OF HONOR AIRBORNE,COD3 AND TIMESHIFT (in that order). when i think about the potential the ps3 has as a great gaming console and then play games like battle for the pacific it just makes me wanna throw the machine out the window. thank god for games like COD4 wich is in a class of it’s own. this game in my opinion would’s even get 1 star but it is compulsory to give a star. activision should hang up their gloves and call it a day. what were you guys thinking when you got this game together ?
Review by J. Brennan for History Channel: Battle For the Pacific
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Try as I have I can not see any good things to say about this game other then if you are a history buff it might be nice to see the authentic video footage from the History channel. I am 59 and have seen most of it. The game is simply boring walk and shoot each mission lasts about 20 minuets. If you could run it would only be about 10, but the controls only allow you to walk or crouch. The game, its graphics’, and controls are about 10 years behind the times. I felt it was more of an advertisement for the history channel then a game. As has been said before, a total waste of money