
Command ships, submarines and aircraft in the South Pacific during WWII.
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I like the game mechanics so far (I have only played for 3 hours). I watched wolfpack345 on youtube and liked the game as he played for us to watch. I do look forward to more game play and getting the mods for additional campaigns. My only concern is that the last update to this game was 2023, so I guess it is not getting developer support anymore.
One of the few games where you get to play as Imperial Japan. Many World War II games focus exclusively on the Allies, predominately as Americans. Frankly, I'm tired of being strictly confined in war games to one side, so I avoid them when they do. However, War on the Sea does an admirable job at being fair at representing each side. I respect game developers that treat us with respect by not relegating us to one side. As for the UI, well, I've seen many more functional, and a much better user-friendly, framework. It's awkward, and I find myself clicking way too many buttons. They could've streamlined the functions, and disentangled the unwarranted confusion, without detracting from its strategic complexity. It took me multiple attempts to finally commit to learning the game, and now that I have, I can say that the unwieldy UI holds the game back to a small extent. In a way, it's much like Graviteam Tactics' UI--a somewhat bizarre translation of functionality. However, they both work, and they work better after you have broken through the strange wall that was constructed around it. Besides the eccentric UI, the game is arduous and challenging, and on occasion comes across as unfair. I do believe, at times, the AI does cheat. The game has a deeper layer than at first blush, and represents a generally healthy historical overview of events. It's a joy to play as Imperial Japan, to watch the Zero, Kate, and Val tear through one American ship after another, as my subs hunt around them. However, I'll pay with a few planes shot down and ships sunk, as well. The game has its awkwardly peculiar construction, and to give it a negative review because of this I'd be remiss in giving the game what it truly deserves: a loving thumbs up. Honestly, this game is frustratingly fun, it'll make you work, and think, and feel exasperated, but you may find yourself coming back to it, time and again. I luxuriate in its game-play, as so few games represent the war in the Pacific, and even fewer so, Imperial Japan.
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Half of your playtime is spent battling submarines that are impossible to detect with sonar and have torpedoes that detonate no matter what angle they hit at. The other half is spent sitting there and waiting for the timer to leave the combat area because the AI sent a single squad of zeros to MG your ships over and over again.
I wanted to like this game, gave it a lot of chances over a fair bit of years but its just not good, just plainly bad. You will spend 90% of your time fighting the same 5 aircrafts attacking you nonstop. As in it will take you an hour to get a ingame day to go by cause of enemy aircrafts attacking random ships and just not giving it a rest. It gets so repeditive and boring you just sign and alt +F4 after plane attack nr 1230 that day. Id not use more than 10 € on it, at the absolute most so wait for a sale or just trust me when I say its not worth it, it will drain you.
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its very repetitive, ai is a mess (both yours and the opponent's), and frustrating. the fact that at there's a kernel to it that could lead to something really cool almost makes it more annoying. def not worth $40
There's a good game hidden somewhere beneath the pile of garbage that is the UI and controls.
HAHA!! GAME AIN'T DEAD! IT LIVES!! I'm glad the devs are still working on it, it's a great game if you love Sea combat with Air battles that sometimes turn into Dogfights! I've had many great memories with this game! Highly Recommend!
The graphics on this game are good. The explosions are nice. It's fun to see WW2 era ships and planes in action. BUT the campaign game play is not good. It improved once I understood that any enemy planes or ships vanish for a fairly decent amount of time after any encounter. At such times, you can fly right over the fleet and the fleet remains invisible. It doesn't mean the fleet isn't there. It just means you can't see them. So you have to wait an appropriate amount of time, THEN search the area and RE-DISCOVER them. Never mind if you had planes or ships that weren't involved in the battle at all other than being on the tactical map. Never mind that they were miles away and were literally on the edge of the tactical area. Those ships and planes can't see the enemy. And never mind that the computer has a mind of its own when deciding what the tactical area will include. It's not a simple radius around the units involved. But the game has even greater problems. Instead of creating an AI with any kind of intelligence, the AI simply gets free ships. You start off with enough command points for just a handful of ships, but the AI gets new fleets spawned every day. No matter how many ships you sink, it doesn't matter. The enemy gets more. However, since the AI doesn't use the ships with any kind of intelligence, those ships become so much cannon fodder. And that's where the fun of the game comes in. You sink a bunch of ships. I mean, many dozens of ships. You shoot down planes left and right. But the campaign part of the game is not good other than that. Also, the naval battles are questionable. The enemy can pinpoint you with precision whereas you are lucky to get in a hit every once in a while. If you have battleships going against their destroyers, this will still work, but evenly matched ships mean you need to take manual control to have a chance. The submarine play is completely pathetic. Also, you have no control of resources. They trickle in a little at a time. You can't fly planes from one base to another--all planes must return to their point of origin. Subs are way too powerful (on the enemy's side, as they can spot your fleet no problem, but you can't find the enemy fleet to save your life despite filling the air with planes from carriers and a nearby base in perfect weather. The graphics are good, but the game play has all kinds of problems. With the pathetic AI, I can't recommend this game other than as a very casual and somewhat fancy game of Battleship. It should be noted that the game also has a decent number of bugs. One such bug has ships on a plotted course simply stop moving--and as slowly as they move, it's hard to notice they stopped. Re-plot the course and they move again, but you've lost hours of movement by then.
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