History Channel: Battle For the Pacific

by ACTIVISION

Product Features

• 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

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000TTIWD4
• Item Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: November 20, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 1.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #23,402 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

Platform: PC

History Channel: Battle for the Pacific

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

34 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Very, very dispointing/Complete Waste of Money, December 23, 2007

By 

Walter Skinner - See all my reviews

= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: History Channel: Battle For the Pacific (Video Game)

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.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The fun war game, June 1, 2009

By 

Kenneth E. Sutphin (The Friendly City, WV) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: History Channel: Battle For the Pacific (Video Game)

I does not know why in this game is not more popular. It is hard to find other people on the Internet to play against but I am fortunate that my grandson has a copy so we battle. I think the game is fun can you get a large variety weapons. Maybe not as much fun as call of duty 4 but it is good sometimes have a little change. He did not have all the bells and whistles is some of the more expensive warnings that if you're just into shooter fun I think you would like this.

1.0 out of 5 stars POS, December 30, 2011

By 

Gustav W. Gere (Saskatchewan) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: History Channel: Battle For the Pacific (Video Game)

Gee, this might have been an OK game...IF THE VIDEO WOULD WORK AND I COULD SEE ANYTHING!

Don't bother trying to get a fix, they don't have one, and Activision could now care less about it on PC. I had another Activision game for PC, same BS. No picture and I've got WAY more than the specs call for, including a 500 mb video card. "Civilization" works just fine on my PC.

I got this game and the Activision Civil War game on sale for five bucks each...now I know why.

Complete waste of money. I can't give it a zero or negative rating so one is as low as I could go.

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