Battlestations: Pacific for Xbox 360 Reviews by Gamers

Whether your into aerial combat or bombardment with the most well known sea born artillery platforms of WW2, your in for a treat. The game lets you play either as the American or Japanese in an RTS campaign that you can control from either the map or the hotseat of any weapon on the battlefield. I have played many RTS games but until this game most of my free time was playing turn based or shooters. When I played the demo on XBox live I was simply impressed and had to get my hands on a copy, which I don't regret because there is almost endless replay value with the campaign and skirmish mode.

Graphics are beautiful, controls are simple and the battles are won by a mix of strategy with skill. If your in the market for an RTS style game dont pass this one up.

This game turned out to be fairly fun. The campaign is fun to play through, although I doubt I would play through again. I would like to try to play with a team of friends online where I think this game would really shine.

Pro
Game creates a dynamic large mild simulation military battles with the option to jump into any vehicle or position and fight yourself. You can often do much better by controlling a unit yourself than letting the AI handle things making for a decent trade off in that you lose control of the over all battle.

Con
On any campaign mission in which your giving a large task force and island capture missions strategy often seems to break down. Either because controlling formations and moving with the AI in control often leads to slow clusters of ships slowing and stupidly grinding away at the enemy. Other times individual units like PT boats or smaller ships would perform sub par when given a simple task. Micro-managing becomes the norm to get the AI to do what your want.

I often found I could do much better by having most of my units back out of the battle and defend themselves while I devastated the enemy using a much smaller force under my direct control. You lose the engrossing large battles in what turns into an almost one man show instead of a coordinated large offensive with multiple intermixed confrontations.