History Channel: Battle for the Pacific for PlayStation 3 Reviews by Gamers

this game is "nasty, brutish, and short". To start things off I'll say this game took me just over 2 hours to finish. Granted that was just on easy/solo (perhaps there is more to the multiplayer which I don't really get into), but 2 hours is incredibly short for any game.

The graphics were decent, had this been a game for the PS2. Considering this is going up against things like COD4, GRAW2 and pretty much any of the newer shooters, this is a step backwards. The sound was ok, but frequently everything was drowned out by the consistent artillery (this is probably very realistic I imagine, but not very helpful in a game). I don't know the history of this game but I see it was a PS2 release not too long ago so I suspect this was just a direct port without any sort of update.

As far as the game play itself, there are 10 levels covering various parts of the pacific campaign of WW2. In reality though there are only 2 settings, the landing beach/trench and the jungle level. No matter the setting you are following someone who constantly tells you to keep up, until he randomly decides to stop and wait and wait... until you decide to go on and then he'll complain that you're not following orders and finally start moving again. Regarding combat, the aiming was very generous on your side. The enemy however can't aim, I never had to seek cover and the one time I died was from an artillery shell. Also frequently, you may find yourself in a hand to hand situation because your allies and the enemy would just run into each other (sometimes even ignoring each other until they were close together).

The one interesting thing about the game was the intermix of color documentary footage from WW2. Frankly though there are enough other ways out there to get access to this it's not worth it for that alone. Considering it's a History Channel game I would have thought there would be more special features/info about the settings/battles but none was to be found.