Pacific Heroes (PC)

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3D dogfighting done simply--perhaps a little too simply.

Specifications: Genre: Action; Number of players: 1 Player See full specs

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Reviewed by: Alex Navarro
Reviewed on: 08/25/2005
Updated on: 09/27/2006

City Interactive's Pacific Heroes takes the concept of a World War II-era flight combat game and simplifies it into a brief, fleeting shooter. Twenty missions are available in the game. Most of the time, you'll be controlling a small fighter plane, ducking and dodging around the skies over the Pacific rim, shooting it out with Japanese fighters. Periodically these fighting missions are broken up by more target-focused fare--where you'll be dropping torpedoes on aircraft carriers and such--as well as some solid turret shooting levels.

The controls aren't difficult to grasp at all. Your plane is always in motion, and all you need to do is use the mouse to steer, and the mouse buttons to use your machine gun and drop torpedoes. Targeting isn't overly challenging, though you will have to lead your shots ahead of enemy planes to hit them. Occasionally things can get confusing: The game automatically bumps your plane back into the proper playing field if you happen to get too low or too high, and sometimes this can be a rather jerky process.

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