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Pacific Fighters 
| 60% Recommended by our customers. Publisher: UBI Soft Catalog: Video Games Release date: 2004-10-26 Audience age target: Teen Suitable before (months): 240 Media: CD-ROM Format: CD-ROM Ean: 0008888682073 Upc: 008888682073  Tip: compare prices with similar computer games |
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Compatible with: Windows 98, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows Me |
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| Pacific Fighters is an accurate and action-packed recreation of the epic battles of the Second World War's Pacific Theater. Encounter hundreds of targets on the ground and at sea and get into dogfights with your enemies in the name of glory and freedom! Be a part of massive multiplayer dogfights on the same dedicated server for up to 128 players |
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 Written on October 4, 2005 Summary: Why don't people RTFM? This is a first class game. It has its faults, all minor, which can be fixed with patches. Some aircraft are missing from the game due to licensing issues, Pearl harbor is present and has been from the start. Since release the game has been frequently updated with aircraft and new maps as well as a new more realistic Flight Model. Some of the reviews here are hopelessly inaccurate. For example a reviewer criticised the inability to tip the wing of a V2 Rocket ??!! Please I ask you! You CAN tip the wing of V1 flying bomb which is historically accurate. In case you still dont get it the V2 was a rocket, flew approx Mach 5, no plane could catch it. Although copy protection is used it is not 'Starforce' The game can be run by following a few simple instructions available on the forums. If you are going to review a game please ensure you can run it properly by: 1. reading the readme file 2. RTFM!! 3. Visit the forums which will help you iron out any problems Written on September 30, 2005 Summary: This is an awesome game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't see why anyone would not like this game.. The only reason that I can think of why you wouldn't like it is if you look down on life. It is an overall GREAT game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Written on September 19, 2005 Summary: Hopelessly incomplete OK, I've waited until patch after patch, listened to the people saying that 1C gives more than expected in continued product support, but now I have to rate this. Pacific fighters is exactly what one expects ,, simply an add-on for their russian front game. It adds "Pacific fighters" to the eastern front struggle, with the added bonus of limited carrier operations. That is also what's wrong with this product. Advertised as a stand alone game, it doesn't have the aircraft, ships, or terrain to recreate even a single battle historically. Pearl Harbor is "simulated" by using british or russian battleships, anchored along aan "Oahu" with no diamond head, but you can't fly a Kate against them, in fact, you can't fly any carrier based torpedo planes! I'm not talking about just missing sub-types either, although those exist (F4F-3A?), but where are the late war japanese strike planes? Or the SB2C, the major dive bomber of the last two years? What about the TBD's at Midway? It can't be simulated, they don't exist, and neither do three of four kido butai carriers! As for ships, probably the critical aspect to simulating any pacific theater combat, you get an essex, a repainted essex, a pre-war Lexington, a cheesy knock off Saratoga, in an incorrect configuration for any period, and an escort carrier in two paint schemes. Missing are all US battleships, all but one US cruiser, and all japanese cruisers and battleships. Japanese carriers are shorted as well, with a zuikaku class, and an Akagi, that's it! How can you release a pacific theater game without the Enterprise? Really, who wouldn't notice? Terrain is also poorly, almost insultingly done, no slot, no Phillipines, no Java area, and Oahu has already been covered as a poor representation. On top of all that is missing, one must wonder about the vaunted flight modeling, when an A6M2 zero outruns an F6F-5 in level flight. Radial engine planes suffer catastrophic engine damage, while the inlines seem invulnerable. Also completely missing is weather. Oh, be sure, you can select varying levels of single layer cloud cover, but wind makes an appearance in only the heaviest overcast, and only as some sort of turbulence factor, no where is it singly selectable, nor are speeds and directions at altitude configurable. That makes what few opportunities for carrier operations exist limited to the speed the ships can generate. I've heard the developers' sycophants tell me that "is plane game, not weather or ship game" but it still feels like a tank sim done in a parking lot. Add to that, the AI (which isn't very I) doesn't use the adverse effects of clouds and darkness, they have super-vision that sees through those. I wonder if the combination of a russian developer, and a french distributor will ever make for good gameplay in a simulator focused on a singularly american theater. I've had it, really, and if I could return this thing I would. Rest assured Maddox' games upcoming Battle of Britain won't be on my hard drive. If not for what will undoubtedly be poor execution and gameplay, then for the copy protection, that makes running the game a real gamble, and introduces the possibility of actually damaging your hardware..(google "Starforce", "Securom") Pass it by.....unless you are one of the "Air Quake" sycophants that seem to rabidly enjoy this stuff....re-spawn indeed...  Written on August 13, 2005 Summary: could be better the graphics are awesome the gameplay is great. the only thing that I want Ubisoft to change is I want to fly more bombers. they say you can fly what you can't Written on August 3, 2005 Summary: a good game, but it's predecessor is better i found that this game can be quite fun, but not nearly as fun as IL-2 Forgotten battles, the expansive ocean is just not as visually attention grabbing as the olling plais and hills of russia, granted, the graphics are awesome, and the pacific theater is fun and taking off of and linding on carriers are challenging and fun, this game just didn't holed my interest like forgotten battles did, and even Combat Flight simulator 2 was more fun, but not nearly as good looking, simply put, this is a great game for aviation fans with GeForce 6 (and late FX series) and ATI X(and 9700 and above) series cards, the graphics are the best on the market,however the fun factor is a bit lacking |
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| Our price | - | - | $19.99 | - | - |
| List price | $19.99 | $19.99 | $19.99 | $29.99 | $29.99 |
| Lowest used price | $1.25 | $7.89 | $12.94 | $13.75 | $18.00 |
| Lowest new price | $4.25 | $3.95 | $18.49 | $28.89 | $29.63 |
| Catalog | Video Games | Video Games | Video Games | Video Games | Video Games |
| Release date | 2004-10-26 | 2005-03-15 | 2007-03-13 | 2005-06-28 | 2004-03-02 |
| Audience age target | Teen | Teen | Teen | Teen | Teen |
| Suitable before (months) | 240 | 240 | 240 | 240 | 240 |
| Media | CD-ROM | CD-ROM | DVD-ROM | CD-ROM | CD-ROM |
| Format | CD-ROM | DVD-ROM | CD | - | CD-ROM |
| Model | - | - | 68361 | 26675 | 008888681809 |
| Ean | 0008888682073 | 0008888681953 | 0008888683612 | 0740569000409 | 0008888681809 |
| Upc | 008888682073 | 008888681953 | 008888683612 | 740569000409 | 008888681809 |
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