Looking for fruitful entertainment, ended up with a lemon.
User Rating: 7 | Pacific Storm PC
I purchased the game for the price and the advertised features. The game delivers in many ways. Resource control, construction, all the neccesities of a Turn-based. The Real time combat, and what I would call "hero mode" going in the cockpit of bombers, figthers and other aircraft, or even taking control of the various weapon systems on ships, was awesome. Made the monotony of chugging convoys around the pacific worth the time. The resource management and unit management started to become a little tedious. If your trying to take the entire map, the logistics become a nightmare, units get lost in port, and keeping everything running smoothly between turns is time consuming. The detail and micro-management of the resource and logistics control was a bonus, but again, very tedious. Installing base upgrades and technology tree is good, even if the tech tree moves slowly.
The biggest and, in my opinion, only problem with the game was spending 5-6 hours on a good campaign, and suddenly getting a crash at a particular time. This seemed to happen over and over again, and the same number of turns during the game, and even with a save, would still crash after a certain number of turns. So even though I spent days on end playing and trying to win the war in the pacific, I never did finish the campaign one time. With the issues of the bugs and crashes aside, this game actually becomes quite addictive, and begins to become as long, and thought provoking as a chess match with a skilled opponent. I would reccomend it, and writing this review makes me want to go play it again, and put some big coastal guns at Panama.
