Pacific Storm

List Price: $39.99 Discount Price: $5.89

Features:

• You are completely free to take whatever strategic or tactical decisions you consider best
• Abandon strategy and tactics & inhabit any of your units so as to take part in the fighting personally
• Gameplay combines exceptional depth and scale of the strategic mode, superior authenticity of the tactical mode and exciting dynamics of the simulator

Accessories:
PC Gamer (1-year)	Games for Windows: The Official Magazine

Customer Reviews:

Too many crashes [Posted on 2006-10-06]
This game has serious potentional, but it crashes too much. I have the latest video card and no other game I have ever played before has this many problems. It has outstanding graphics, but even on minimal settings, it still crashes before a battle or during one. I would be careful before buying this one. Find someone who owns one first and try it on your computer and see if it works first. I am both a simutaltion and strategic game fan, this one has them both, but I am putting this one on the self until the designers update it and make a few patches. So buyers beware. see if you can rent or borrow first.

Problems with the game [Posted on 2006-10-20]
This game crashes to much to be of fun. I hope the developers issue a fix soon.

Very cool game, but super unstable even after patch [Posted on 2007-02-14]
The Russians invented the superbly reliable AK-47, now if they could only do the same with software. This game is very promising even though the graphics leave something to be desired. It is alot of fun though when it doesn't crash every 10 minutes. The strategic lvl is a little tedious but still fun. The tactical lvl is very cool using and controlling ships. Allies expansion will make this even more fun since you will be able to control the big guns on ships, and have location based damage. I will be getting it and seeing if it is anymore stable. Also, I have passed along some patch ideas to Buka so I will update this when I hear back.

Ridiculously unstable [Posted on 2008-01-09]
The PC game "Pacific Storm" jumped out at me because I'm fascinated by the Pacific Theater of World War 2. It claims to be a grand strategic simulation of that theater, complete with the ability to manage the logistics and tactics of the war. A strategy Sim game that explored that realm of the war seemed to be a wonderful find, and so I bought this game.

Unfortunately, I barely was able to play it.

I installed this game without a hitch, and then installed the latest patches. Upon running it, I went into the display setting to set it up for my particular monitor set up (1680x1020). Upon applying the settings, the game crashed. Not only did it crash, but it took my whole system with it, rebooting the computer entirely. I haven't had that happen to me in years, so I thought it a fluke and tried it again. The same thing happened.

I was eventually able to get the game to run, partially by dialing down the display settings and running it at a lower resolution. Even with that done, the game still crashed to the desktop while playing it.

I have a computer more than capable of running this game, and I just recently updated my display driver with the most recent version. I do not believe this issue is one with my computer. As an avid gamer, I've played hundreds of games over the years and none of them have displayed close to this level of erratic behavior. Given that I'm not the only one who has suffered from these issues, it is clear to me that the problem is with the game and its lack of bug testing before being shipped out to the consumer.

It's a real shame too, because from what little I played, this game has real promise. There's astounding depth there, and it's clear a lot of research went into developing it and creating the grand scenario it fits within. Clearly there were historians and naval experts involved in building this. If only there had been more playtesters and troubleshooters too.

After a ridiculous number of crashes, I gave up on it. I play games to have fun and relax, not to tear hair out over crashes. I do hope that the developer keeps working on fixing the issues, because I still would like to play it when it's gotten clear of its instability.

As a result, I have to give it very low marks.

For the record, I have:
Processor: Intel Quad core.
Ram: 4 gb
Video: Nvidia 7600GT
OS: Windows XP

poor quality [Posted on 2008-04-29]
lets look at the track record all the way up to patch 1.6. one patch made all the guns shoot backwards. Now if you update to version 1.6 all of your text turns to german. There is a work around fix for this but it's just another sign of really poor quality control to actually release patches like this to the public. after all of these patches the game still crashes usually when leaving a battle and going back to strategic.

the biggest problem is there are no other games out like this to play right now. if there was then this game would be in the recycle bin. I do play this game though and get some enjoyment out of it(between crashes).

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