Pacific Theater

Pacific Theater
by Abacus

Pacific Theater
List Price: $29.99
Category: Video Games
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Product Summary

Brand: Abacus
Format: CD-ROM
Platform: Windows 2000, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT
Model: 201316
Publisher: Abacus
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Video Game Reviews of Pacific Theater

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

I just bought the pkg, right now on Amazon it is a total steal! It's.. just to download a single nice F4U corsair from abacus internet...so this is good bang for the buck! It's worth it just for the Hawaii scenery, let alone for 12 new planes & new ship objects, plus missions in Pearl Harbor!! I'm ordering Battle of Midway also, to round it out & get more planes.

.., 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

Ability to fly 12 of the most famous US and Japanese planes that fought over the Pacific. Pacific Theater showcases detailed scenery of 1941 Pearl harbor and the Hawaiian Islands. New missions on actual 1941 events at Pearl Harbor. Origina missions, accurate scenery, beautifully detailed aircraft and jolting combat experience.
Combat Flight Simulator provides a set of authentic military scenarios in Pacific Theatre. This add-on is the first to include new classic aircraft, new scenery, and new missions based on historical fact.

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