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An exciting hybrid title, Pacific Storm mixes the strategic elements of RTS titles with the action of an arcade title. RTS fans will enjoy classic strategy elements including resource management, unit and building construction and unit deployment, while action fans will be happy to take to the skies or seas as they directly control units in intense combat. Main Features of the Game - Engaging WWII action in the Pacific combat theater, viewable in both a strategic map and tactical battleground mode. Pacific Storm organically combines three genres into one coherent whole in one game: strategy, tactics and aircraft simulator. After attacking your enemy on strategic level you may switch to tactical level and if you want you may inhabit almost any of your units.
- Classic RTS elements such as technology research, unit development and deployment combined with gripping white-knuckle player-controlled combat action.
- Huge variety of historically inspired units with focus on naval and air units, including bombers, fighters, battleships, aircraft carriers and other power hitters of the Japanese and U.S. Pacific fleets.
- Beautifully rendered landscapes and bodies of water provide stunning backdrops for both in-flight and on-the-ground action.
- Special unit editor where you can create new units as well as modify old ones is available on strategic level;
- Large-scale naval and air operations on the global map of the Pacific including Australia, Eastern part of North America, Oceania and part of India from 1940-1948. Possibility to change history during the Historical camping;
- System of experience gain the crew now become more and more experienced with every battle. New possibility of forming elite squads has also been introduced in the game;
- Stunning special effects including nuclear bomb explosions, and astonishing ocean backgrounds;
- A large amount of tactical missions with the possibility to choose the side to play for: Japan or the US. Tactical battle deployment mode in which one can create any battle on one of the 40 tactical Pacific maps, choose weather conditions and the time of day, as well as units and ammunition;
- Ability to develop new technologies including increasing the power rating of aircraft engines to guided missiles technology, biological and nuclear weapons;
- Switching from strategic to tactical level (and back) keeping all battle parameters: units' number and their ammunition and characteristics, time of day, weather conditions ;
- Improved game control in the strategic mode allowing effective base management, mission planning and supply management; Rich time control options (slow motion, acceleration and controlled pause);
- A Multiplayer for 8 players with 3 game modes: tactical battle deployment mode, simulator mode, and cooperative mode where two players can join forces in a mission.
Your fleet in Pacific Storm includes battleships, aircraft carriers, destroyers, cruisers, missile cruisers, submarines and torpedo boats as well as tankers and transports. The aerial war is conducted using fighters (at first piston-powered and in later stages jet fighters), attack aircraft, torpedo bombers and strategic bombers. There are different types of units, all carefully modeled from WWII-era aircraft and ships, in the game. Also, you can develop new technologies and create new weapons systems, which may almost instantly overturn the global balance of power. About 100 technological improvements (upgrades) enhancing combat effectiveness of warships and military aircraft are available. In addition to the strategic mode with its 127 different Pacific zones and 40 naval bases, you can play 20 historical battles, including the Battle of Midway, the attack on the Japanese admiral Yamamoto's plane and the battle for Guadalcanal.
Pacific Storm is all about battleships and aircraft carriers — the giants of naval warfare during WWII — about captains and admirals, as well as rank-and-file soldiers and sailors of the two great military powers locked in a life-and-death conflict. In Pacific Storm you can become the Commander-in-Chief responsible for the lives of thousands of servicemen and the destiny of his country; or the commanding officer of a small squadron; or even an ordinary military pilot fighting in the sky over the Pacific. Gradually, as you play, from all these separate bits and pieces will emerge one impressive picture of the great and fierce battles fought in the Pacific during WWII. |
