Battlestations: Pacific Trailer

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coonce online on April 27, 2009

first!

Ineedaname on April 27, 2009

That was just the same clip over and over from different angles with different text at 20 second or so intervals.
Terrible ad for a game imo.

Sweep on April 27, 2009

Battlestations Midway was so convoluted and slow, I really hope they can simplify this enough for people to understand/enjoy.

Having said that, scoring a torpedo hit with you submarine was awesome =D

Jimbo online on April 27, 2009

Hmmm, that's one of the worst trailers I've seen for a long time. Last Battlestations game was pretty enjoyable though.

vanfarley on April 27, 2009

Am i the only one who thinks this is in poor taste. Having japanese planes slam into battleships only to see a unrealistic split down the middle? The enthusiastic Japanese man shouting "BANZAI" at the end of the clip? I have played (and enjoyed) WWII games before but the way this is depicted makes me cry foul. I also believe that if you are going to let the player actually perform a kamikaze attack, you shouldn't let the player jump to another plane right away, or else it loses all meaning.

TatoBins on April 27, 2009

not so sure I'm cool with that trailer.

MagikGimp on April 27, 2009

Not sure about this myself but then again nothing is sacred these days and the limits are pushed more and more as time goes on. That said, anyone else think the graphics look really sub-standard compared to other recent releases?

Media_Master on April 27, 2009

Looks terrible and not a fan of bombing innocents

Subject2Change on April 27, 2009

that looks so boring and awful...

Metal_Mills on April 27, 2009

The plane models are bad. :\

Meatsim on April 27, 2009

The first game wasn't very good, did it really sell well enough to warrant a sequel?

FireBurger on April 27, 2009

I don't mind them making kamikaze attacks part of the game because they did in fact happen. However, I find it rather distasteful how they basically tout it as the stand-out feature of the game. Especially, the comic, over-enthusiastic guy at the end screaming "Banzai!".

I don't usually think too many things are "in bad taste," I've played my fair share of war games and GTAs, but the way they hype this as "Look, it's awesome, you can fly planes into ships!" and don't really convey the severity of it is just weird.

It's a weird line to find something "distasteful" in a medium where it's entertainment value comes from killing people in the first place, but there is some sort of line.

DiGiTaL_SiN on April 27, 2009

Somehow I find that offensive, to both Americans and Japanese people.

Jaxboy on April 27, 2009

Hehe! I get a huge kick out of all you people that cry foul at a game for being "distasteful". Ah, the joys of killing hundreds in one afternoon, of driving over pedestrians, of having shoot-outs with cops. All pretty distasteful if you saw it on the evening news, but standard fare in games - not to mention fun as hell. If you find it distasteful, don't buy it, don't play it. But please, don't try to make me feel guilty for buying it and enjoying it. And definately don't try to prevent its appearance for sale at my local store.

Rudy on April 27, 2009

Although I see people's opinions on how this trailer can be seen as distasteful I simply took it as the developer making it known to players that the realism in Battlestations: Pacific is taken up a notch from Midway. It always urked me in Midway how crashing your plane into a ship caused no damage. For me, that hurt the game's realism effect. I'm happy that they are making it clear they corrected this issue in Pacific. I'm just treating this game like a game, not a portrayal on the brave men that fought on either side of that war.

giyanks22 on April 27, 2009

Shitty trailer..

twstdsniper on April 27, 2009

what was the point of the guy in the bomb at the end?

Jimbo online on April 27, 2009

What you have to realise - which this trailer totally fails to convey - is that you can control the ships / subs etc. etc. It's more like an RTS where you can jump into the units, which is why individually they appear so simple and arcadey.

This trailer just comes across as a really bad flight sim.

cyrax on April 27, 2009

*ehugs Jaxboy and Rudy*

dagas on April 27, 2009

I don't understand the why kamikaze attacks are so controversial anyway. At the end of the war, the odds for survival for a Japanese pilot was so low anyway that it didn't make much difference and one fire bomb raid over Tokyo killed about 10000x more people than all the kamikazes.

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