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History Channel: Battle for the Pacific

The History Channel: Battle for the Pacific isn't necessarily an atrocious game, but it just isn't that fun and brings so very little to the table. As we mentioned at the beginning of the article, there are numerous FPS games out there now that are highly worth your time. Try them. Leave Battle for the Pacific on the shelf, unless you're legally bound to own every World War II-related videogame ever made. If that's the case, we feel bad for you.

I didn't have any luck finding more than two people to play with online, and since some of the modes require at least four people, so I didn't get to try them all out. And I certainly have no desire to check it out again. I might actually find some people online and then end up having to play some portion of this game again.

The disappointing fact is, if you want to play a good WW2 FPS, you’ve no end of choice in both the budget and full price sectors, most of them better than this. I can’t even recommend you give Battle for the Pacific a try, because it would be far more enjoyable – and cheaper – to revisit Call of Duty 2 or any other number of superior games. Battle for the Pacific tried to add the documentary footage to provide some value to a bad game but if you want to watch a documentary, you’d be reading reviews for World War 2 documentary DVDs.

Gamers seem to be tiring of the World War II scenario that has become so common to the first-person shooter genre. There are only so many times you can shoot Nazi soldiers before you begin to yearn for something more. Whether that happens to be tentacles or nuclear weapons, most people would argue that a change is in order. At this point, the only effective way to produce a WWII-era title is to approach it from a fresh angle or just do a phenomenal job with the production values. History Channel: Battle for the Pacific, though it makes attempts in each area, falls short in both.

The History Channel : The Battle for the Pacific coûte 40 €, soit deux Bioshock. On vous conseille d’acheter deux fois le jeu de Ken Levine plutôt que de dépenser le moindre euro dans ce qui est en passe de devenir le plus mauvais FPS de 2008. Qui sait, l’année n’est pas encore terminé et Cauldron est capable de nous sortir quelques chose de bien pire avant les fêtes de fin d’année…

Battle For The Pacific fait probablement partie des FPS les plus barbants de l'histoire. Ses missions sont terminées avant même qu'on ait eu le temps de comprendre qu'elles avaient commencé, ses niveaux sont une incessante répétition des mêmes décors et séquences - quand on ne tourne pas carrément en rond sur une carte de 800 mètres carrés - et on boucle la chose le temps de prendre un gros repas. Pfiou, ben vivement la suite ou mieux, un Thema Arte : Battle For Corsica.

Zusammen mit dem Privatfernsehsender The History Channel schickt Activision einen optisch und akustisch gelungenen Ego-Shooter ins Rennen. Das war's dann aber auch schon auf der Habenseite. Ohne Story-Zusammenhang stolpern Sie auf pazifischen Schlachtfeldern wie Guadalcanal oder lwo Jima meist stur Ihrem Vorgesetzten hinterher, um hirnlose Japaner am laufenden Band zu erschießen. Viel schwieriger ist es jedoch, mit Ihrem Offzier Schritt zu halten. Da es keine Sprintfunktion gibt, kommt es mitunter vor, dass eine Mission nicht weitergeht oder sogar scheitert, weil Sie zu weit weg sind und dadurch Skripts nicht ausgelöst werden - blöd.