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Quick Look: Battlestations: Pacific

Brad and Vinny dive-bomb bamboo huts into submission in this WWII strategy game.

Sit back and enjoy as the Giant Bomb team takes an unedited look at the latest video games.

May. 1 2009

Cast: Brad, Vinny

Posted by: Drew

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Battlestations: Pacific

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Edited By Fallen189

WW2 Strategy <:

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Edited By Fritzerbacon

looks interesting

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Edited By mackgyver

The gameplay is a welcome change from anything that's out there. They need to update the storyline to a modern setting and I'm set.

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i'm on a boat!

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Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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Edited By benjamimmy

feeling a bit dizzy now lol

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Edited By MeatSim

I got to the part in the demo were you have to torpedo the battleship and the game froze on me.....

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Edited By Sarumarine

Rockets... not very effective on boat hangars. But a couple of your plane moves were Michael Bay approved so... I guess you could chalk that up to breaking even. But hey man... don't mess with those mountains. Don't do it. They'll make you sorry.

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I thought the multiplayer demo of the first game was really fun, I never played the actual game though.  16 people fighting in a somewhat realistic naval battle is pretty darn cool.

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Transform into a robot and smash it, lol.

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Edited By JunkanooPunch

I loved part 1, will be getting part 2 :D

Multiplayer was actually pretty fun in part 1 as well, so looking forward to the improvements for part 2.

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You learned that mountain real good.

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This looks like a Borefest.

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Oh my god, brad, stop accelerating towards everything, slow the hell down!!

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Edited By FLStyle

I'll have to pass, thanks anyway.

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Edited By mrsmiley

it sure looks pretty. but damn looks hard to control. or maybe brad sucks.

yeah probably that. :)

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Edited By dagas

Battlestations Midway was quite good. Too short, but what there was was great. Looking forward to this.

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*Yawn*

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This looks like a PS2 game.

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Tale Spin reference!!

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Edited By Hairydutchman

Inverted controls suck!

Maybe that's why you always die Brad.

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Edited By singular

Who decides who plays which game? Poor Brad ;)

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Edited By nekoNari

Quick Look's alternate title: Watch Brad Die In This Game! :D

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Edited By FuzzYLemoN

People in the comments are acting like such assholes. The first one was awesome, and this looks awesome as well.

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Yeah, stop being assholes, assholes!

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Edited By Scratch

I played the demo yesterday and the controls are fucking hard. I honestly could not manage to complete the demo. That said, I never played Battlestations: Midway...

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looks pretty cool

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Edited By ahoodedfigure

This looks cool.  This is probably one of the first WWII games in a long time that actually piqued my interest, and I'm not even a big RTS person.

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Edited By solviper

Just finished playing the demo, I thought it was really amazing and a great improvement from the first, the controls are not hard and its a demo so it only allows you to do so much. Its called strategy games kids, their a time of the past unfortunately.

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Edited By Alwaysrun

looks like poor jerky controls but the game looks decent enough.

Brad WTB QL prep time?

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Ugly, man. Really ugly.

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Boring... sweet Tale Spin reference!

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Edited By English

Definitely a game you'd want to play on PC, the controls look as though they haven't been "optimized" (dumbed down) for consoles.

Some of the textures don't look too good, though as long as you don't spend too much time crashing into the ground it looks nice.

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Edited By MasterChief360

not intense enough.

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You can tell this game is old because it has film grain on it.

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Thank you Giantbomb for educating me about WWII :D

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Looks ok, but I think I can get my fill with Battlefield: 1943, and that is only going to be $15.

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Why do they do QL's of these games none of us have ever heard of?

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zzz ...zzzzzz..... what?

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Brad, you made this a really rough QL to watch... in no mean way, but a little practice before taping?

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Looks cool.

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the first one was Battlestations Midway, which was IN the Pacific. Now there doing another one based on the same campaign. Why do they alsways make WW2 games based on American campaigns, they weren't even the ones who won the war for us.

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not too bad of a game. i think ill pass though

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Nobody likes inverse controls

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I'm on a boat!

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i find it terribly ironic that brad fails to kill himself when he tries to in this

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I'm from the future :3

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@toma said:

the first one was Battlestations Midway, which was IN the Pacific. Now there doing another one based on the same campaign. Why do they alsways make WW2 games based on American campaigns, they weren't even the ones who won the war for us.

It is where most naval battles were fought I think

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A QL of a demo, huh?

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Brad: "'This mode provides up to 2 hours of gameplay'... man we can't sit there for 2 hours and do a quick look."

Lol