Anybody Playing Battlestations Pacific?

I bought the DVD version of this month's PC Gamer magazine (I usually just buy the mag without the disc), and it included a demo for something called Battlestations Pacific, which I felt compelled to try since I had paid extra for the stupid disk.

Holy mackerel, what a fun demo.

It's an arcade-like flight simulator, of course, and within minutes I was flying about the island like a real fighter pilot - it was a total blast, no pun intended. Also, the last flight simulator I played was probably from back in the day when flight simulators ruled the gaming world - I think my last flight sim might've beenFalcon 2.0. Like a lot of people I stopped playing them because they became too difficult, and also because I got tired of flying over a landscape which resembled a patch-work quilt. The graphics of flight sims couldn't keep up with the graphics of FPS games.

But this Battlestations Pacific is visually stunning - and smooth. You can actually see detail on the land as you're flying about, and the water from high above is amazing. Are there any other flight sims on the market that look this good?

The thing that looks really interesting here is that there's a strategic element to the game as well - because of the battle map, which has icons moving across it in real time. It just looks like it's a really fun and well presented game. Try out the demo if you haven't already. I have a Core i7 with a GTX 275 - I don't know what my frames were, but they were well over 60.

Do you mean battle stations pacific, and yes its good.

Yeah, that's what I meant, Battlestations Pacific. I don't even know the name of the damned game.

Easy mistake there is a game coming out soon called battlefield pacific.

Are you saying you can't download the demo?

You could always buy this month's issue of PC Gamer - it's a pretty good issue too. I always buy the non-DVD version of the mag, but they had run out of copies, so I was forced to buy the DVD version, and I'm glad I did. I never would've tried Battlestations otherwise.

I actually bought the game last night. It was a whopping $49.99 - but man was the demo ever fun (and surprisingly beautiful). If the game lives up to the demo then I'm going to be spending a lot of time with this game. I've been reading the manual, and the game is actually a lot deeper than I had originally thought.

i was going to rent it for ps3 but if its good i will probably get it for the pc

i was going to rent it for ps3 but if its good i will probably get it for the pc

duxter1

If your PC is state of the art, or near state of the art, then buy it for the PC - it's an incredibly beautiful game to look at, and really, really fun to play. This is what fifteen, twenty years ago I had hoped flight simulators would one day look like. Controlling the ships is fun too. What gives the game that little extra lift is that you also have a strategy mode, and that you can shift between these different modes at the touch of a button. It's just really well done. This game deserves way more attention than what it's getting.