1942: The Pacific Air War

Ну,она работает. На этом плюсы и все. А вообще это просто порт на досбоксе оригинальной игры, без локализации, без туториала в самой игре - не очень то весело. Сама игра похоже породила серию подобных игр, где с годами меняется графика, но весь принцип остатется тот же, что и в игре 94 года. Для коллекционеров и любителей постарше

1942 The Pacific Air War is a very very old game, from the 90s. It has that good old pixelated graphics, weird sound effects, no tutorial, I don't even know how to look at my keybinds I figured them out by simply pressing ♥♥♥♥ and finding out what it does. Its obviously not modern at all. So why should you buy this instead of a modern flight sim? Well the answer is simple: You shouldn't. I bought like a package that came with a lot of old games and this was one of them, I thought they would be very fun. They are not, they are very hard to figure out because the essential things that we find in every game nowadays wasn't a thing back then I guess. +Quite a lot of planes with cool looking cockpits. Wildcats, Zeros, B-17s, Catalinas, P-40s... There's a lot more fighters in both the Japanese and the American side, there's like 1 flying boat for each team, a few bombers. Still very good. +I do really like the graphics and the noises in these older games. They're just so weird which makes me love em. -As usual with these old games no tutorial. Good luck figuring out what button does what. -There is honestly 0 reason to buy this over a modern flight sim. This applies to most of these very old, 90s games. Am I sad that I own it? Not really. Will I play it again? Not really. Would I recommend it? No. That applies to most of these older Microprose sim games. They're cool looking and because they're super old in my opinion that makes em even cooler but they're honestly a torture to play.

A classic Microprose game that stolen hours of my childhood. Graphics are obviously outdated after a quarter of century but still enjoyable to play. Zeroes are the more fun to pilot.

As you can imagine the main obstacle to play the game is its age. There are 3 main game modes Single missions: Dogfights, bombing, torpedo attack, and ground attacks. Career Pilot: You create your character, flight missions and make yourself a name. Carrier Battle: You control the carrier and send air patrols, search missions and strike groups to enemy carriers and bases. This mode is kind of secondary given that the main point of the game is obviously the flight simulation. Its indispensable to check the manual (225 pages) for the controls list and interface explanation. The main fault of this game is that there is no tutorial nor in game nor in manual (unlike in Task Force 1942: Surface Naval Action in the South Pacific) I have not much experience with flight sims, but I find the controls confuse even after reading the manual, the old graphics and interface makes difficult to have situation awareness in the mission. Regarding the Carrier Battle mode, it feels too minimalistic, this is understandable given that this is a flight sim not a ship or strategy game.

spoiler alert not worth 7 dollars

Esse jogo é mais velho que eu, lembro que eu assistia meu pai jogá-lo no Compaq com Windows 95 dele. É um simulador sensacional e muito realista, apesar dos seus gáficos serem lamentáveis, pois se trata de um jogo do Windows DOS, antes mesmo do 95. Naquela época, ter um jogo 3D como esse era algo fora de série. Eu mesmo já gastei horas e horas nesse jogo no PC antigo, até que eu descobri que ele está à venda na Steam. Quando vi, comprei sem pensar duas vezes. Os gráficos podem ser ruins, mas se você não é um graphic ♥♥♥♥♥ e gosta de simulação de combate aéreo, vai gostar desse game com certeza.

The times before Steam were wild. I miss those days a little. Anyway, this is a Strategy game I played decades ago. Thankfully, in my ability to think ahead, I even wrote my own review of it at that time. Unfortunately that review was just some wildly ridiculously complicated recipe for a sandwich. I won't include that recipe, because it obviously has nothing to do with the game. I will tell you that I made that sandwich, ate the sandwich, and despite the complicated requirements in making it... It was delicious. What I had to say about the game is that I found the graphics to be really great at certain points, especially for the time period. What I didn't like is that the whole strategy element felt like you were so far removed from the process despite actively making choices. Perhaps it was watching dots move that I didn't like. I wasn't too clear on it. Essentially at this point in time, all the way here in 2026, I can honestly say I was unable to get into it now. I tried. I loaded it up. Relished a little bit on the nostalgia. Made that sandwich, ate it, and made a couple of decisions in game that had woefully slow results. I miss that sandwich now, but I do not miss this game.

Just to think back when this game first realest in 1994 it was considered a top microprose simulator! I believe I played it about 20 years ago and didn't get very far but now hate it. waste of time getting nowhere fast and low graphics and sound. Even for some sort of nostalgic kick it was too bad for me and ended up deleted. I guess the actual planes look good if you want a good point about it @)

I honestly did not like it and found it confusing on what was happening and the sound was buggy af.

還不錯，古老的遊戲，操控很靈活