Battlestations: Pacific

[Flawless]

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Battlestations Pacific demo dated

Eidos has wired to tell us that Battlestations: Pacific demos for Xbox 360 and PC launch on 30th May. The game isn't coming out on PS3, in case you're confused.

The samplers offer one mission from the US campaign, in which an unlucky American carrier fleet is being bombarded by fearless Japanese kamikaze pilots.

Two multiplayer modes - Island Capture and Siege - are also bundled in, although both will only be playable offline against AI bots.

Battlestations: Pacific launches on 15th May, two weeks after the demo.

[Flawless]

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Demo is up.

[ChubbyBanana]

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Demo is up.

Downloading now

Impressions when I can post, probably this evening.

[Skerik]

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7/10 from Eurogamer.

Encouraging:

More impressive, however, is Island Capture. This new mode takes advantage of one of the game's new features - the ability to send landing craft to capture ground installations - and the result is fantastic. Played on large, generous maps, these matches can be epic, with up to eight players battling to take and hold key locations, each of which bestows a gameplay perk. Take over a radar outpost, for example, and you get the option to recon the entire map. It's in this mode that the game's future potential seems to lie, offering a compelling naval complement to the sort of air and ground action found in DICE's Battlefield series.

Not so encouraging:

This rather obtuse nature was another of the original game's sticking points, so it's a shame that all the progress made in enhancing the options available hasn't resulted in a more obvious gameplay overhaul. In pure play terms this is, more or less, the exact same game as last time and the learning curve goes through the same awkward trajectory. First there's annoyance and confusion at the lack of guidance and the multitude of things you need to keep tabs on. This melts into grudging admiration once you get a handle on things and realise that there are some seriously cool ideas at work here, even if the execution sometimes seems to be going out of its way to stop you noticing them.

In summary:

Battlestations: Pacific still has much to recommend underneath the flaws, much like its predecessor. It's an often clumsy and over-ambitious enterprise, one that can wow you with a pirouette and then slip over on a banana skin in the same mission, but the pleasures it does offer are enhanced by the knowledge that it's still the only game offering them. For all the dozens of gritty, growly WW2 shooters, this is still the only one that seems interested in the fascinating and unique challenges of naval command. It may not deliver those challenges with the aplomb and polish you'd hope, but it's hard to begrudge the attempt.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/battlestations-pacific-review

[ExtremeGamer]

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I want it really bad, but had a hard time getting into the demo at all. Eh

[ChubbyBanana]

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I want it really bad, but had a hard time getting into the demo at all. Eh

Same here.

I felt like I just couldn't get excited for the demo. I played the crap out of the first one, but for some reason this one doesn't excite me as much.

Probably will be a used pickup sometime in the future for me.

[mkharsh33]

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Same here.

I felt like I just couldn't get excited for the demo. I played the crap out of the first one, but for some reason this one doesn't excite me as much.

Probably will be a used pickup sometime in the future for me.

my sentiments too...

[SportsAce]

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Has anyone actually picked the game up yet and played it for some impressions?

[ExtremeGamer]

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I'm going to get it despite what I said earlier. I suck, I shouldn't have said anything. Is it terrible that the achievement "Surprise Attack" got me more interested in the game?

The achievement is for using Japan and attacking Pearl Harbor. Not sure why that is interesting to me, maybe because never got to play a WW2 game like that before. Cool that you can play it from both sides.

Again, I suck, but I'm sure Skerik was already 100% sure I was getting it anyway, he knows me about as good as anyone. LOL

[Matt Diesel]

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Ill probably get it. The more I played the Island Capture mode, the more I liked it. Its just a little rough getting used to.

[ChaseB]

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I'm going to get it despite what I said earlier. I suck, I shouldn't have said anything. Is it terrible that the achievement "Surprise Attack" got me more interested in the game?

The achievement is for using Japan and attacking Pearl Harbor. Not sure why that is interesting to me, maybe because never got to play a WW2 game like that before. Cool that you can play it from both sides.

Again, I suck, but I'm sure Skerik was already 100% sure I was getting it anyway, he knows me about as good as anyone. LOL

So EG, why do you hate America?

Terrorist SOB.

[ChubbyBanana]

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So EG, how about a mini write up?

I would love to know what you think.

[ExtremeGamer]

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I only played one mission, the bombing of Pearl Harbor using Japan. It's very similar to the first one control wise, now when you attack ships you can attack different parts, fuel, hull, etc.

The attack wasn't nearly as massive as I'd hoped it to be though. You get to sink the Nevada, destroy a bunch of planes on the runway and that's really about it besides other random destruction.

It's fun though, still not overally in love with it, but like the first one, it'll be fun to play online and to pick up here and there to play.

[SportsAce]

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Beat the U.S. campaign a couple nights ago and now just starting on the Japanese campaign. Good game.

[Laettner32]

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Is it complicated? Can I play the game within 30 min. to an hour and know what I'm doing for the most part?

How long does an online match take? Are they hour long campaigns or more around 30 minutes or so?

Looks interesting, I like WW2 stuff, so thought I would ask.