Pacific Storm Allies

by CDV Software Entertainment

Product Features

• Diplomats, strategists and fighter jocks will all have a place in the game; seize the day from behind a deck gun, in a plane's cockpit, or as an admiral in the fleet's strategic planning room.
• Play as the United States, Japan, and now as Great Britain. Ally with the AI-controlled Soviet Union, Holland or Germany, using updated diplomacy features.
• Employ bombers, fighters, submarines, battleships, aircraft carriers and other power hitters of the Second World War. Go beyond the Pacific Theater and even command the Bismarck or HMS Hood.
• An updated 3D graphics engine beautifully renders units, including detailed damage modeling and persistent combat effects.
• Master grand strategy, new technology development or in-your-face combat with a newly updated control scheme that streamlines everything from resource management to dog-fighting.

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00125N8IS
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: January 22, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #28,735 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Pacific Storm: Allies is the latest title in the Pacific Storm series of WWII Pacific theater games which combine real-time strategy, resource management and exciting, in-your-face combat action. In Pacific Storm Allies, players jump into the thick of battle, playing as the United States, Japan, and a new playable nation - the United Kingdom. Allied nations, including the Netherlands, Germany and Russia, offer a new level of diplomacy and resource management to the game. An updated graphics engine brings to life new aircraft, naval ships and landscapes, showcasing them in lush, vivid detail.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An add-on with bugs, March 9, 2008

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Slider - See all my reviews

= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

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The AI is seriously messed up generating units and defense not possible using given economy. The game is also extremely buggy even after all the work done with Pacific Storm (I have Pacific Storm also). I've been waiting for a patch as the game is unplayable with constant crash to desktop errors when returning from tactical mode. The support site says one was on the way out for this a few weeks ago now.

Updated edit (5/29/2010)
CDV updated a workable patch (Pacific Storm Allies Pacific Storm: Allies Patch v1.52 (11.3MB, May 28, 2008)). It fixed the crash to desktops but made the AI even worse. I had the game shelved until now. Game modders have tweaked the game mechanics and units since patch v1.52 to make this game usable now. Luckily the game turns out to be very modable. A World War II modders dream in fact. Several years after buying this product (and several game player mods later) I'm finally enjoying this product emensly and have now just bought another copy. Another classic example of a game released which players fixed with mods. (updated the game rating based on player produced mods)

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't waste money on this crap, April 5, 2008

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Y. TAN "Ernie" (LA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Pacific Storm Allies (Video Game)

Just like the previous guy said. This game is half-baked. The feeling when you try to play this episode II is totally a mess. This is the first buggy game that attend unplayable level. Besides, even after four mothes since selling, there are none path for any bug. What can i say. Just try to download a cracked version through net. It's not hard to find and even less bug than official. You don't have to waste money on this crap.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Untolerable even for Pacific Strategists, April 6, 2009

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Dale C (New Hampshire) - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Pacific Storm Allies (Video Game)

I'm holding onto my copy in case I am desperate again, but next I am going to try some of the meatier titles such as Pacific War Matrix, War in the Pacific, War Plan Pacific or Uncommon Valor. I studied the rules for about a week and played through all the tutorials prior to playing a campaign game so I was well versed prior to playing.

I played only in a strategic mode and did not use any of the real time battles but the game feels detached in an arcade fashion. You have to click on your ships and then right click on the enemy stack much as you would do in Age of Empires when they appear.

One draw of Pacific gaming is an attachment to your named ships, althoguh they are there it seems a bit abstracted. Your stack of ships are in formations. You have to drill down about five levels to see that you actually have carriers in your stack. Even with carriers a strike force is actually called a Battleship expeditionary force (battleships have a higher heiracrchy). Launching carrier strikes seems a bit of a stretch. You right click on the stack and choose air strikes and at times your planes's formations will launch. You then repeat the Age of empires formula of right click the enemies, etc.

After action reports are difficult to read as the losses are in a xx/xx/xx format and are displayed differently for attacker and defender. Sunk ships are the second set of hashes for one side, then when you are on the other end it becomes the first set of hashes.

Positively you can hand over the logistics to the pc and automate this. It will move troops, resources and supplies around but not very effectively. I moved planes manually from the West Coast to the island bases only to have the pc move them from the island bases to stack on the US west coast again.

I think for myself a turn-based game with set static rules such as ZOC's, and easy to recoginze groupings of ships would be more my speed. For those grognards hoping that this real-time game would be a nice quick Pacific war simulation it might pass but will still leaves a bit of frustrating wanting.

Three stars only because it ran rock solid, is a novel idea and they are supporting the nich genre that is hard to find.