Pacific Storm
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| Pacific Storm | |
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| Developer(s) | Lesta Studio |
| Publisher(s) | Buka Entertainment, CDV |
| Engine | OGRE |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows |
| Release date | US: September 28, 2006 |
| Genre(s) | Real-time strategy |
| Mode(s) | Single player, Multiplayer |
| Rating(s) | ESRB: Teen |
Pacific Storm is a strategic and tactical game of the Pacific war set in World War II, released by Buka Entertainment.
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[edit] Gameplay
In the game, players are able to act as a supreme commander, which handles research, ship and plane design, production, troop deployment, and many other things. As a real-time strategy game, players are allowed to control individual ships and planes. Furthermore, players can also act as an ordinary sailor, who can man various anti-aircraft gun positions on a ship or man various gunner positions in a heavy/medium bomber plane, turning the game also into a first-person shooter.[citation needed]
[edit] Patches
It was released under 1.2 version and plagued with various cases of instability, which causes the game to crash. Patch 1.3 has been released to partially solve the problem of instability and memory leak. Patch 1.4 has been released to fix problems on Windows Vista. It is up to 1.5.
[edit] Reception
This game has been criticized by many gamers due to some historical inaccuracies, mostly due to limited types of ships and aircraft available in the game, for example the presence of two US Colorado class battleships in Singapore at December 7th, 1941, instead of HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse.
[edit] Expansion
The standalone expansion Pacific Storm: Allies involves Britain as an additional playable faction. It also introduces non-playable nations such as the Netherlands, Germany, and the USSR. Like the original game however, Pacific Storm: Allies is also plagued with severe stability problems.
