Pacific Theater
by Abacus

List Price: $29.99
Category: Video Games
See more product details and other editions

(Click here)

Product Summary

• PC Gamer (1-year)

Video Game Reviews of Pacific Theater

Customer Review: Great cheap way to expand CFS1: Hawaii & Pearl!
Summary: 4 Stars

.., you get 6 US & 6 Japanese flyable planes, 6 missions (3 US, 3 japanese) re the attack on Pearl, and a whole bunch of "what-if" missions re further japanese attacks. The scenery is pretty detailed, but not photographic like CFS1 Europe- eg, better than FS98 level, esp. the mountains (guess that is the mesh 3D scenery.) This version is the "enhanced" version also, w/ fixed enemy planes & improved scenery, and has japanese accents for radio.

You get LOTS of ships in Pearl to blow up, the Japanese fleet incl. the carriers to blow up (or TRY to land on, good luck)... how can you lose for this price?

I only played briefly so far, but the planes look & fly well- they are partly animated (flaps, gear up/down, propellor speed- but no aileron/elevator control movement), have good exterior detail (the guns & cannons are there & match the muzzle flash). Cockpit detail seemed OK.

It's a lot of fun to have such a "target-rich" environment, eg playing Japanese and attacking Pearl, w/ all the battleships to strafe and bomb (or attack the Japanese fleet & carriers at sea). Playing over Hawaii coastline & mountains is more interesting for me than playing over generic scenery in Europe, but then, I was born in Hawaii so it's a bit nostalgic :-)

There are plenty of planes flying about in most of the missions, so it tends to be a "furball", w/ planes flying every which way, more realistic & chaotic than CFS1 Europe missions.

I wish they had included lots of US planes on the Pearl runways, to match history better, but there are already so many destroyable & flying scenery elements, more would probably slow the game too much.

On my PIII-800 & nVidia TNT2 system, it plays very smooth in fullscreen, though w/ the cockpit graphics on it gets a little choppy sometimes.

Probably is still faster than CFS2, just not as good graphics & missing the damage detail etc.

If you specifically want the better graphics & damage in CFS2, and are willing to pay much more for that, go ahead... but for someone already owning CFS1, and who wants to get Hawaii/Pearl scenery & objects...

Description of Pacific Theater

Flight Games

• Video Games > Categories > PC Games > Simulation > Flight
• All Games
• Kids & Family