Heroes of the Pacific

by Ubisoft

Product Features

• More than 150 planes fighting on-screen, each with full artificial intelligence and physics
• 10 campaigns, with 26 missions taken from real events of the Pacific campaign including Pearl Harbor and Iwo Jima
• Six game modes - Campaign, Instant Action, Single Mission, Historical, Training, Multiplayer
• Fierce online multiplayer support for up to 8 players
• Compelling and dramatic story featuring historical footage

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000BC2FD2
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: September 8, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (42 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,489 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: PlayStation2

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

Product InformationHeroes of the Pacific dramatically recreates the largest aerial battles of theSecond World War. Relive the greatest moments of the Pacific Theater includingWake Island Midway and the Coral Sea. Experience epic scope of the battlesplacing hundreds of planes on the screen in a single confrontation. Fly thelatest designs that American ingenuity has to offer the Hellcat and Wildcatthe Dauntless and the Corsair -- while facing the fast and deadly JapaneseZeroes. Player-controllable wingmen through a fast and intuitive menu systemHighly detailed plane and ship models with complex lighting and environmenteffects Varied mission types - Ground attack ground support escort defensepatrol torpedo and dive-bombing Unlock bonus planes from the U.K. Germany andthe U.S.S.R.Product 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.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

31 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very fun arcade/sim mix, January 22, 2006

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BasinBictory "Mister Basin to You" (Nowhere in particular) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Heroes of the Pacific (Video Game)

I have been waiting a long time for a WW2-based aerial combat game. Rather, I've been waiting a long time for a REALISTIC one. Many of these purported WW2 games go the fantasy route and have Mustangs and Corsairs armed with lasers and other such nonsense. This one is right on the money, with period-accurate weaponry and flight characteristics.

In the campaign mode, you play the role of Lt. William Crowe, USN. You are in flight training during the attack on Pearl Harbor, and proceed to fight your way through all the famous campaigns and battles of the Pacific war, including Guadalcanal, Coral Sea, the defense of Wake Island, the Marianas, the Philippines, Leyte Gulf, Midway, and Iwo Jima. You are able to fly a variety of aircraft, from nimble fighters such as the Hellcat, Corsair, p-38 Lightning, as well as dive bombers like the SBD Dauntless and torpedo bombers like the Devastator.

The gameplay is very fun, although at easy levels the enemy AI is very, very stupid. Enemies will fly as though they just graduated from flight school (which, in a historical context, was pretty close to the truth after Midway) and are easy to shoot down. There's quite a learning curve involved for those who are used to combat flight sims which are more jet-and-guided-missle oriented, since you have to line your enemy up and lead them with your machine guns or cannon. However, once this is learned, combat becomes easier and more fun.

As you advance through the missions, you unlock various airplanes which can be used once the game has been completed on any difficulty level. It's fun to fly as a Zero or even a German Me-262 sometimes! This isn't a highly realistic simulator, however - you basically have unlimited fuel and ammunition, and some things which would normally cause you to crash (like ramming another plane) simply cause damage. However, none of that detracts from the fun factor of this game, which is very high.

In addition, I was very impressed with the ship models used for the game, as well as the realistic-looking landmasses when attacking islands. Iwo Jima really looks like Iwo Jima, with Mount Suribachi at one end, and Wake Island and Pearl Harbor is accurately modeled as well. The Japanese carriers look just like the real carriers did, and aren't just generic representations. The carrier you fly off of in most missions is the USS Enterprise (CV-6) and it too, is accurately modeled, even if it is sometimes inaccurately called the Saratoga.

In summary, this is a very, very entertaining game with good replay value and I highly recommend it.

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Looks great, flies poor, February 4, 2006

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muspench (New Orleans, LA USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Heroes of the Pacific (Video Game)

I'm a big fan of WWII aircraft and combat, so I had to get this game (the only one of this kind that I'm aware of). Graphically the game looks beautiful, but the controller configuration is difficult to use for several reasons. There are only 2 variations with no ability to customize. Most flight sims use the L or R 'shoulder' buttons for rudder control but HotP has unwisely eschewed that almost "given" configuration in favor of the right analog stick (assumedly to give more precise control of the rudder), but said stick also serves as the throttle control (you can see where this is going). Trying to pull off a tight turn can and often does result in unwanted throttle adjustments - you either stall or overshoot your target. On the subject of stalling, it is a far too common attribute of this game's flight psysics and almost impossible to recover from. Your plane literally drops like a stone the second it stalls (the term "glide ratio" is non-existent), and as much of the action takes place just a few thousand feet up there is little or no time for correction. But like I said, I'm a sucker for WWII aircraft and this game has them to spare. There are close to 150 planes that can be unlocked and upgraded through gameplay. Arcade fun, but not exactly a WWII flightsim.

PROS: Beautiful graphics; unlockables keep you coming back for more - vast number of aircraft available; missions from the pages of history; challenging, but more so because of the control configuration; multi-player dogfighting online

CONS: No customization of (poor) control layouts; stalls are way too easy resulting in crashes; long load times (every menu screen has a load-time - ridiculous when you are changing settings)

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Arcade dogfighting fun!, October 17, 2005

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Junior Gamer - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Heroes of the Pacific (Video Game)

Intense gameplay and exciting dogfighting! What I wonder is why there isn't more marketing on it. It's such a great game!

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