You will follow me, and this is an order!
The general theme is the American campaign to take various Pacific islands. However, there's no plot development, with missions ending suddenly. Fellow soldiers have no personalities, repeating the same dialogue endlessly. Draw distance is embarrassingly bad, with objects randomly appearing. One example is a section requiring the defusal of landmines, which pop into view mere feet away.
Level design is also horrendous. The opening level, Wake Island, is a tedious trawl through identical looking trenches. And things don't improve throughout the games incredibly short length. Every mission requires you to follow someone, somewhere. What makes this so frustrating is any variation leads to immediate failure. It also means exploration is impossible. Combat lacks any sense of empowerment. Animation is a joke; enemies all look and move identically. In fact the whole presentation is appalling. Controls cannot be altered, with only one scheme available.
In the saturated market of WW2 shooters, Battle For The Pacific is arguably the most shameless. Using the History Channel as a template, it claims authenticity. With quotes like, `Experience history brought to life', and `Relive epic land battles fought on some of the most brutal and unforgiving battlefields in recorded history'. Instead, its a shambles, with none of the scale or scope this flimsy marketing would have you believe. A terrible shooter.