Eidos Hungary have provided numerous different modes that cover all the material within the game, including Island Capture, Domination and Escort. However, perhaps the most intriguing thing about the game is the great potential the multiplayer has. The meat of the offline game is in the two campaigns, one featuring the usual US post-Midway missions, and the other allowing you to fight for the Japanese forces, perhaps screaming "For the Emperor!" and "You build bridge now!" at the top of your lungs.Įach campaign is set up with a particularly rousing (and long) cinematic, before you head into each mission, which could involve bombing the US troops at Pearl Harbour or eliminating waves of Japanese Zeroes as they attack your bombers. With over 100 air, sea and undersea units to unlock there's plenty for the obsessive to aim for. You can dive straight into the action yourself, dive-bombing dreadnoughts and carriers, or take a step back and issue commands either in-cockpit or using a relatively clumsy tactical map. It allows you to control planes, boats, short-mounted artillery and flak cannons and submarines. Set in the Pacific theatre of World War II, the game is nothing if not ambitious. So, while it does appeal to adrenaline whores, it also has a deal of depth to it that will surprise many. It falls between that particular stool and the one marked "Incomprehensible PC simulation".
While it's tempting to dismiss it as a bland arcade fly-fly bang-bang game, this would be doing it a great disservice. Due To The arcade nature of its combat and presentation, Battlestations: Pacific screams "average!" at you from the off.
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