![]() There’s a good amount of base to the big guns here, which makes them rather satisfying to use against the enemy. You would expect a battleship giving a broadside to sound beefy, and it does. None of this would really be a big issue, were it not for the fact that you’ll spend a lot of time watching cutscenes in this game. In static shots, or when you view action happening in the distance, things tend to look really good, but the animations for the human characters are stiff and robotic, and there are also some clipping issues. The cutscenes are a bit more of a mixed bag. The same can also be said for the terrain, it might not look amazing if you zoom in too much, but from the distance, you’ll view it, it looks nice, particularly the beaches. ![]() While the ship models in particular might look a bit simple if you zoom in too far, from the distance you’ll view them most of the time, the units look nice, in large due to the textures being quite well made. Turn based tactics games of this type are not really known for their amazing graphics, but Strategic Mind: The Pacific actually looks quite good. The cutscenes do look pretty good in still images like this, but a bit worse in action Graphics & Sound ![]() So seeing people like Nimitz and Yamamoto being portrayed as humans is fun. It’s rare for there to be any human drama at all in these kinds of hex-based tactics games, with the story usually being told through text between each level, and possibly a cutscene showing some stock footage, and maps with a voice explaining what’s going on. The way the story is told is really something that sets it apart from other, similar, games. The portrayal of the Japanese army as rather incompetent might be a bit unfair, but it makes for good drama at least, even if it’s something that’s mostly enjoyed in an ironic way. There were a lot of rivalry between the Japanese navy and army during this time, and that’s played up here. Through the campaigns you’ll get to see some of the most important battles of the war, like the Battle of Midway, as well as some less well known ones.īefore and after each battle there’s a lengthy cutscene, usually involving the upper brass of each side talking to each other, although there are scenes showing other things, like the bombing of Tokyo, and these cutscenes have enough drama in them to almost be a soap opera, particularly on the Japanese side. The game has two campaigns, showing both sides of the conflict. Depending on which side you’re playing as, Japan or the US, you’ll either get to play this battle yourself, or get called in to deal with the aftermath of it. In December of 1941 Japan launched a surprise attack on Perl Harbor, sinking 4 battleships, further damaging 4 and also sinking and damaging several smaller ships. The Japanese campaign opens with the attack on Pearl harbor.
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