1942: The Pacific Air War

The game is well designed, so I recommend it

Alright, well, it's a DOS flight sim from a day after 1993. I've never played it before, I just own this game for some reason (Nightdive releases quality stuff) and I decided to buy it and play it. I was kind of not disappointed. I basically just flew a couple of missions and shot down a few F4Fs or whatever, it's hard to even tell because of the graphics, but I saw blue paint which means US Navy. I was pretty satisfied with the controls and the flight model. Although... this game feels a lot like Super Nintendo Pilotwings. So uh yeah. It's a little more advanced, but it's still a relatively primitive simulation. It still gets a lot of stuff really right though, so it's definitely a good game. Anyway, more important to talk about is the release. It worked for me via the Linux or Windows packages, but I noticed that the Linux package was missing sounds, and presumably the Windows package too. Which is a shame, but you can just mod in the correct sounds - someone in the Steam Guides section has figured it out, so if you really want the experience to be as authentic as possible you can just go check that out. It's a shame you have to do that, but it didn't really trouble me. And the game does work, which is the important part to me. I'm comfortable with games requiring a little bit of tinkering if they are, nearly 32 years old. I'm comfortable with it. Although, I did have some trouble with the controls, mostly just to figure out views and such. I could not at all find a way to get the camera to behave in first person view, and aim forward, so I just played in third person view. It still worked fine, although you don't get crosshairs, so you have to just guess where the enemy is. I think the game defaults to infinite ammo though, with limited ammo as a toggle, sooo, it's not so bad. Also, once I had sorted out the view controls, everything else is fairly intuitive - plus and minus to set engine throttle, spacebar to shoot, arrow keys to turn or go up and down. Very typical stuff. And that's all you really need to fly and blow up other planes. Anyway, do I recommend it? Sure why not. It's a flight sim, though, so you're going to either be a person who likes flight sims or a person who does not, and this game is not going to change your mind one way or the other - this is the definitive ur-example of a flight sim. It looks, feels, plays, smells, and tastes like a flight sim. The smell is thick attic dust, and the taste is tinned rations. If you do like flight sims, then it's probably worth picking up on sale just to give it a shot and be pleasantly surprised by the graphics (press F9 to adjust) and the surprisingly intricate plane details and loadouts. They clearly put a lot of work into this game before the internet even really existed, which means it was made by nerds who bought and read a lot of books, and I have nothing but respect for that.

Tato hra je sice už stará spustitelná pod režimem DOS a proto ta grafika na dnešní dobu nepůsobí lákavě a to nepočítám jiné funkce, ale na tu dobu a i dnes se mi líbí děj hratelnost je velice promyšlená ať už je to pro samostatnou misi, kariéra pilota anebo přímo bitvu. Velice dobře promyšlené mise a i práce s mapou , to je to co mi dneska v nových hrách chybí, u nových her je sice grafika nádherná , ale místo místo simulátoru je to pouze střílečka, arkáda a ta reálnost simulátorů chybí (jsou výjimky, ale bohužel jich moc není) tahle hra by si zasloužila nějakou podobu remastru , ale né arkády prostě vylepšení grafiky , zvuku a pod. věcí, ale ten děj a kampaně nechat jak je to by bylo velice super, kdyby se toho někdo ujal. Akorát aby to nedopadlo jako u remastru Wings Of Glory to mě hodně zklamalo kdy ze simuláturu z WWI DOS udělali arkádovou střílečku ... ale to je jen můj názor.

Nostalgic =)

same your money

Eu vi esse jogo pela primeira vez no shopping Iguatemi em Campinas em 1995, era tão caro que só pude joga-lo dois anos depois quando um amigo abastado me vendeu sua cópia usada, porém completa, com caixa grande, disquetes, manuais e folhetos, ainda a tenho até hoje. É um jogo muito realista para sua época, o modelo de voo é caprichado como tudo que a Microprose fazia, seu sucessor (European Air War) é considerado uma obra prima. Infelizmente esse jogo sofre de sérios problemas na emulação do som digital (metralhadoras por ex) no DOSBOX. Dá para resolver, mas é preciso recorrer a um programa externo gerenciador de memória (procure nos comentários em inglês um passo a passo). Achei que por ser uma cópia legalizada vendida nas plataformas digitais, a Retroism teria resolvido esse contratempo, enfim, parece ser uma falta de esmero com todos jogos de MS-DOS que necessitem do DOSBOX. É um jogo antigo, os jovens certamente devem passar longe, os mais velhos que queiram reviver os bons tempos de jogatina nos PCs amarelos tem que estar prontos para alguns ajustes braçais para deixar o jogo "jogável". Simuladores de combate aéreo para PC eram muito populares até o começo dos anos 2000, 1942 PAW certamente está entre os top 5 da primeira metade dos anos 90.

Broken out of the box. Could not get sound and music to work no matter what solution I tried. As a result the game has horrific garbled sound that replays over and over and makes it impossible to hear anything. Sorry, but 'turning the sound and music off' is not a solution.... that's just absurd.

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