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A great game with a few minor issues

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Overall the game is excellent. The missions and the plot is intuitve and the ingame controls are alright. The menu system has some issues. It takes several seconds to go from screen to screen in the menus. I also found that I could shoot easier when all the planes crosshairs were set to ground. Not a big deal, but I had to do it every mission with every plane.

Just yucky

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 15, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I am no stranger flight games, both arcade and simulation, and this is a complete waste of money. Extremely high learning curve, it's impossible to control your plane, and unless you have a very big TV you won't ever even see the plane that kills you...again...and again...and again. It's not realistic and not fun. If you must have WW2 dogfighting, find a copy of Microsoft's Flight Combat Simulator, the first or second one will run on any PC made in the last ten years. You can fine-tune the realism from instant arcade action and immortality to a realistic 20 seconds of bullets and several hours of travel.

Best Game played

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 19, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The HOP is one the top games I own and played - very interesting once you understand the way of the controls. Tough game but once you learn you never want to stop playing. You must take the time to think while playing this game.

Hard to play

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is difficult in controlling the airplanes. Unless you are a very good gamer you will be discouraged.

Let the good times fly

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 08, 2008
Author: Amazon User

There is some very realistic flying done here and plenty of action for all fliers. So, start the engine and load up the ammo and get the torps and bombs ready. The enemy is looking for a fight so take it to them.

Its a good challenging game..

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 20, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Its a good game, challenging some which is good imo, and thats more about getting used to the controls and learning how to fly your plane, but its just a little practice and learning how to do things.... you'll notice your rate of take out planes of your enemies going higher and you getting better manuvering skills as time goes on...

Nice game for WWII plane lovers and battles of the Pacific during that time...if you like the land games of Call of Duty and Medal of Honor ect..as i do, this is a MUST!!! and good game for the Flying war part of the collection...

What choice do we have in this genre?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 11, 2008
Author: Amazon User

It's either "Heroes of the Pacific" (HOP) or "Secret Weapons over Normandy" (SWON). Both have plenty of weak points. HOP has more realistic control of your airplane than SWON, but some of the missions are just ridiculously huge. It's like taking on the entire Japanese air force on your own in a few of them. One mission's secondary objective is to shoot down 100 enemy planes! And of course you have an unlimited amount of ammo, rockets, bombs, fuel, and torpedoes. And the Japanese (and you) are flying some aircraft that never saw actual action, but were just experimental prototypes at war's end. Not realistic.

I also found some glaring errors in the airplane capabilities in HOP. For instance, the P-47 Thunderbolt had 8 .50 caliber machine guns in real life, and the P-51 had 6 .50 caliber machine guns, yet the game gives the P-51 more firepower than the P-47. Wrong!

Nevertheless, on the plus side, it is fun on an arcade-like level. It does have pre-determined save points throughout the missions, so that is helpful. You can turn the annoying dialog off and just hear the battle sounds too. SWON has an absolutely idiotic storyline embedded that is really lame. HOP overall is a much harder game to complete because the missions on ACE level can be extremely tough. SWON is not really all that difficult by comparison.

Which is better? I have both, and the decision would have to go to HOP definitely because the control of your plane is much closer to the truth. You can actually loop, barrel-roll, and stall out. No way with SWON. SWON has two or three missions that are just shooting enemy airplanes with antiaircraft guns with no flying involved--just point and shoot. Moronic. SWON control of airplanes and dogfighting is a bit fun at first, but it is so utterly unrealistic that I no longer play it, now that I have HOP.

Way Too hard!!!!!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I agree with all who said that the game is WAY TOO HARD! I hold a private pilot license and have also flown radio control planes for over 25 yrs so I know what I am saying when I say that the flight charateristics AND the campaign goals are rediculously difficult even in the "rookie" mode. The game may have some possitive value for those who know where and how to get cheats or who enjoy doing the same level 25-30 times and still not advancing but I am not one of those. I had a successfull career as a watchmaker and jeweler so patience and precision are not problems for me but enough is enough. Also there is little or no instruction on how to accomplish any of the goals in each scenario. I was initially pleased with finding a WWII flying game but now very disapointed and have quit playing it since the idea is to have fun not to get so completely frustrated that you want to throw the controller through a window.

Great Game & Great Service

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Fun game and great service that amazon provided. I got this on time. Free super saver shipping ROCKZ!

would have been 6/5 stars if it had worked

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I paid about 20$ for this game brand new in the case sealed and i was practricly standing on my mail box waiting for it. When i got it, to my suprise, instead of playing for hours without blinking, it did not work...... it loaded up to the menus and that alone was why i gave it 1 star... before the campaign it just stayed on the loading screen for maby an hour and i just gave up on it.....dont buy this game! save yourself the hard earned dowe and buy san andreas and shoot down jets with the "rustler" instead.

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