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Title: Anyone tried Pacific Fighters? How is it?
Post by: Citabria on January 13, 2005, 10:29:34 PM

just wondering

Title: Anyone tried Pacific Fighters? How is it?
Post by: Bluedog on January 13, 2005, 10:37:53 PM

IL2 with Pacific maps and planes.

I personally love it, the RAAF New Guinea campaign is an absolute blast.
A lot of people complain about the lack of flyable torpedo bombers and there's plenty of the usual FM/DM pissing and moaning.

Carriers are great fun.

As a stand alone game, I wouldn't reccomend it, there just isnt enough game content to carry it, but if you allready have Il2 :FB/ AEP then it is deffinately a worthwhile expansion, in fact a 'must have' if you are into the Pac theatre air war.

Flight model/ damage model, it is pretty much the same as IL2, ditto for the view system.

Plenty of new maps, ranging from a million square kilometres of nothing but water, to Midway and Wake islands, which have buildings in their correct historic locations, paths in the right places etc.

The New Guinea map is cool, but not very realistic, the Owen Stanley Mountains, 11000 ft jungle covered monsters, is a small range of hills in PF :(

Graphics are excellant, AI is passable, online it is stable and fun with the right crowd.


If you haven't played since the IL2 demo,  it's definately worth grabbing a gold pack with the whole series.....if you have Forgotten Battles and the Aces expansion pack, it's just more of the same, slightly tweaked, in the Pacific with CVs.

Title: Anyone tried Pacific Fighters? How is it?
Post by: Pongo on January 13, 2005, 11:23:28 PM

great fun especially with Track IR vector.
But my campaigns lock up when the jap hoards show up over my CV group.

Title: Anyone tried Pacific Fighters? How is it?
Post by: Lizking on January 13, 2005, 11:26:41 PM

Is the B25J any good?

Title: Re: Anyone tried Pacific Fighters? How is it?
Post by: Russian on January 13, 2005, 11:36:07 PM

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Originally posted by Citabria
just wondering

If you never saw PF in action and you are on DSL/Cable, DL this video

http://www.virtualwarcinema.com/Movies/Pacific%20Fighters%2011.wmv

Enjoy.

Video made by THX-1138

Title: Anyone tried Pacific Fighters? How is it?
Post by: o0Stream140o on January 13, 2005, 11:59:22 PM

Did he ever finish "The Few"?

Title: Anyone tried Pacific Fighters? How is it?
Post by: JoOwEn on January 13, 2005, 11:59:28 PM

I have the game, havent even had the chance t play it.

:D

Title: Anyone tried Pacific Fighters? How is it?
Post by: Wolfala on January 14, 2005, 03:02:12 AM

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Originally posted by o0Stream140o
Did he ever finish "The Few"?

Not yet - i've been waiting on that forever.

Title: Anyone tried Pacific Fighters? How is it?
Post by: SunKing on January 14, 2005, 03:12:45 AM

Do a search. there's at least one thread a month on this game.

Title: Anyone tried Pacific Fighters? How is it?
Post by: BUG_EAF322 on January 14, 2005, 07:33:09 PM

The carriers are beautiful and the water is great. In the wildcat u have to pump ur gear manualy also u can fold the wing and open the canopy that is cool too.
when u smack on the deck of carrier wich rolls a bit it makes that sound and u can see the sparles coming from the hook

A must have for any combat sim lover.


go get it and upgrade to 3.03 thats alot of download.