Heroes of the Pacific

by UBI Soft

Product Features

• 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

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000B88O7C
• Item Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: October 25, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,589 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #38 in Video Games > PC Games > Racing & Flying

Product Description

Platform: PC

From the Manufacturer

Experience the most famous air combat of WWII's Pacific theater. Heroes of the Pacific begins December 7, 1941, with the attack on Pearl Harbor and allows players to live the most memorable battles of the Pacific campaign, including locations such as Wake Island, Midway, and the Coral Sea. Players will experience realistic and historically accurate planes and environments along with an epic scope of battle. Both arcade- and professional-style controls and a variety of game modes allow the player to live the greatest air battles of history.

Features:

• Fight the Pacific's most epic and action-packed air battles: including Pearl Harbor, Wake Island, Midway, and the Coral Sea, the campaign covers the entire course of the war in the Pacific with up to 150 planes on-screen at the same time.
• Multiplayer action with up to eight players online: engage in head-to-head dogfights or cooperative team play.
• Six different game modes: including Campaign, Instant Action, Single-Mission, Historical, Training, and Multiplayer.
• Compelling and dramatic wartime storyline: covers the entire Pacific campaign and features missions based on true events and accurate historical footage.
• Command a total of 36 authentic-looking and fun-to-fly WWII aircraft: including all major U.S. and Japanese models with bonus planes from the U.K., Germany, and the USSR.

Product Description

Rain hell from the skies!Product InformationBeginning with the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbour the epic story unfolds through 26 missions taken from real events of the U.S. Navy's campaign in the Pacific. Battles take place in hotspots such as Midway Island Iwo Jima and Guadalcanal. Featuring 35 authentic military aircraft plus more to unlock prepare to pilot an incredible line-up of US and Japanese planes including the Grumman F4F Hellcat and F6F Wildcat the Douglas SBD Dauntless the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk and the Chance-Vought F4U Corsair.Players will also be able to switch between the pilot’s and gunner’s seats and experience first-hand what it’s like when it’s just you and your plane against a relentless enemy that just won’t accept defeat. Heroes of the Pacific features airborne battles with up to an awesome 150 planes in the sky at one time. This is the first time a flight combat game has featured skies so filled with aircraft AA fire smoke and pieces of blown-apart airplane. This is war gentlemen and it’s going to feel like all hell has been let loose in the skies! Product Features Fight to the death in incredible aerial battles from WWII’s Pacific Theatre. Over 35 playable aircraft including Fighters Dive Bombers Torpedo Bombers and more to unlock. Up to 150 planes in the sky at one time each with full AI and physics. 26 compelling and dramatic missions taken from real events of the Pacific campaign. Incredibly detailed plane and ship models with complex lighting and environment effects. Player controllable wingmen through a fast and innovative menu system. Two-player split screen multiplayer.# Online play for up to eight players. Realistic environments including dynamic 3D water.Product Reviews"Classic arcade dogfighting where every battle is against the odds."     - PC FormatSystem Requirements Windows Me 2000 XP Vist

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Want to have fun?, July 14, 2006

By 

Michael A. Blanchette "Little Canuck" (New Hampshire) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Heroes of the Pacific (CD-ROM)

I know that choice of game is highly subjective. But I happen to love this game more than any other WWII flying game. The graphics are great, and the fun level is superb without being ridiculously difficult. You don't need to read a 700-page manual to get these planes off the ground. The game is intuitive and pure raw fun to fly these babies! I also find the game to be solid, with fewer bugs than most games I play. If you like Crimson Skies, then you may also love this one.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great Fun...if you like the genre, February 1, 2006

By 

Horst Kraft - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Heroes of the Pacific (CD-ROM)

Ok, so I've played this game for a little while and I will just give it a 3 out of 5. THe game is good, personally I liked a lot more Combat Flight Simulator 3, great graphics for the time, a wide selection of planes, German, British or American, including "secret planes" or planes that never reached WWII. But in this game, it seems that they focused more on a less realistic experience, and go straight for the action instead. It could have been a fantastic game, if they just added nicer graphics OMG we're in 2006! . If you can spend the money, and you like the genre, give it a try!

11 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars hated it, January 23, 2006

By 

Robert P. Gendron - See all my reviews
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= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Heroes of the Pacific (CD-ROM)

I don't understand why Upisoft is marketing this game when they have Pacific Fighters and IL-2. The later two games are far superior to Heroes of the Pacific. HoP has a squirrely flight model and in every other way is inferior to Pacific Fighters. It's not worth the trouble at half the price!

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