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I remember asking my parents to get me this game for Christmas the year it came out because the commercials insinuated that they were going to depict the battle of Iwo Jima, which I hadn’t seen done before at the time. I remember playing the game and trying my best to like it so I wouldn’t hurt my parents feelings but god damn it was so awful.
Luckily I only rented it (on PS2). I remember being so pumped for the Iwo Jima mission, only to be really disappointed to find out that it was yet another mission where you're running around alone. And then as a slap in the face they show a single squad with a flag run onto the beach at the end. Wahoo.
There's a few other things that I think are worth highlighting to show how awful this game is. In the first mission you are tasked with using an AA gun to shoot down some Zeros. Both my friend and I tried and tried to complete this on every difficulty and could not shoot down a single Zero. I looked up a guide and the guide stated that it was almost impossible but if you wait long enough the game just automatically completes the objective for you anyway. Also, on the 2 missions that begin in landing crafts you can clearly see that the craft is already on the beach rather than approaching it. On the 2nd landing craft level you can clearly see a mountain on the island and it's not getting any closer.
No its not of the history Channel games the Civil War games are actually pretty good. They aren't going to win awards but they certainly are not horrible.
I actually really liked it as a kid it was one of the few fps games I had this was on ps2. It ran alot better then battle of the pacific and there's actually some missions I still rember like where you have to steal a hot air balloon. I'll be honest only reason I still think about it is because it's one of the few civil war games out there.
I only had The Civil War game from History Channel, but I remember it (I was young like 5 pr 7) but I thought it was a decent game at the time. Nothing that was like going to win GOTY or anything but a decent shooter set in the Civil War. not a lot games actually go back that far to that particular setting
@@greenlightstudio5302 I streamed both of them earlier this week. He's right, they're very very bad and I've already made a video ripping into them. It will go live next Friday.
Using real documentary footage as cutscenes was the reason as to why I love the Medal of Honor series. Props to Cauldron games for getting SOMETHING right, especially for a History Channel game.
Would you rather play this or World at War's campaign? Also some things to clarify: -The friendly NPC models are ripped from Call of Duty 3, they still have 29th Infantry badges (those blue and white yin yang things), which is a division that did not fight in the Pacific. -Multiplayer only works with LAN (as seen in Oboe's video). It's because the servers were shut down when Cauldron were bought by Bohemia (ARMA devs). And you just need Secret Service and the Civil War games to complete the Cauldron saga.
I'd say anyone and their grandma would rather play WAW than this game. But if you want, ask someone this. Would you rather play Vanguard or this game? Though I'd only stick to Vanguard just for shooting bad guys. There are Cod games with better stories, Infinite Warfare for example.
WaW's campaign was literally one of the most epic, historically authentic and downright awesome WWII stories I've ever played. Meanwhile, this "game" isn't even worth playing for free, let alone being worthy of being compared to WaW.
Except they look way better in COD3, and at 10:05 you can see a 90th ID patch, also from COD3 and yet another division that did not fight in the pacific which also makes the uniform they are wearing incorrect
This game is bad the guns don't work WAW is better becuase it has a better pacific campaign based on the island hopping campaign from making to pelelu to Okinowa to Shuri castle like one good thing very realistic and has a gritty atmosphere to it like in the later japanese missions the banzai charges get more frequent.
It's possible that Cauldron kept getting hired because they were so cheap and I assume really short dev time, which I assume led to profits despite bad quality.
Fun fact: This is one of the rarest Steam games that have ever existed, because of a probable license expiration of the History Channel license, it got delisted between 2010 and 2011. Until today, only a few users have a steam copy in their libraries and there are no CD KEYS or Steam Gifts of that game, and if they existed, they would probably cost more than 5000 USD.
This game will forever stick in my mind as the first game I ever beat on hard difficulty. and after beating the last level. it didn’t even give me the achievement. It was 8 years ago this month.
I hope you check out the Civil War shooters, Civil War: A Nation Divided and Civil War: Secret Missions. The first one was frustrating due to the enemies hit scanning/sniping you constantly, but the sequel was thankfully a better game. They're not the best games, but the Civil War setting and the guns you get to use(like the musket)makes them rather unique.
I loved Secret Missions, the historical weapons were cool and the missions weren't super thrash. However I cannot stress enough how much I hated that gunboat mission mid game that gave you no sights to aim with, that was pure torture to get through
Not sure if it was made by Cauldren, but I own a copy of a History Channel Civil War game for 360. Got it for free from someone a while back. Never really played it much as it was kind of frustrating from what I remember.
Both the Civil War games are made by Cauldron. Play them on easy, so they are not frustrating. There is fun to be had in those games, if you are a history buff.
Hey Jarek, thank you for doing this game review regarding battle for the pacific. Here are a few things I got to say about it: 1) this game came out a year before call of duty: world at war in 2008 and if you compare and contrast between them, WaW is better than BftP. 2) there are 10 levels spread out the whole game regarding the pacific (basically WWII in the Pacific): 1. Battle Wake Island - dec. 8-23, 1941, 2) battle of Bataan (Bataan is a region in the Philippines) - Jan. 7 - April 9, 1942, 3 and 4) battle of Guadalcanal- aug. 7, 1942 - feb. 9, 1943, 5 and 6) battle of Leyte (region in the Philippines) - oct. 17 - dec. 26, 1944, 7) battle of Luzon (region in the Philippines) - Jan. 9 - aug. 15, 1945. And 8-10) battle of Iwo Jima - feb. 19 - march 26, 1945. Now you check these battles out in Wikipedia, if you want more explanation about them, I’ll highly recommend you’ll check out kings and generals’ the pacific war 1941-1945 which they’ll give you week-by-week timeline regarding battles in the pacific which are informative and have interesting map animations to look at. Also, kings and generals’ Russo-Japanese war, sihang warehouse 1937, khalkhin gol 1939, battle of Taronto 1940 (Taronto is in Italy, not Toronto in Canada, lol), and battle of Hong Kong 1941. Again, i highly recommend you’ll check these videos out if you want context and explanation about them, which is better than this game. And 3) say what you will regarding this game, which I won’t disagree with you about them. This game might not come out as being the best game ever, but at least it’s passable and not frustrating to play (except distance where if you don’t follow them, you’ll fail instantly) by one difference: there are no bullet sponged bosses to fight against and no bugged out sections which you can’t progressed. Yeah, compare that to soldier of fortune: payback, BftP is the preferable option. If you want to have true wwii pacific experience, play call of duty: world at war instead. And thus, that’s all have to say about it. Thanks for reading and and again, thank you for covering this game.
A historical game made by the collaboration between a professional historian and a really competent game development studio would be a dream come true.
Infinity-Ward would have been a better choice for a WW2 themed shooter for the History Channel, but instead they partnered with the Military Channel for CoD 2. Which in the long run wasn't a bad thing, because if they did do a WW2 themed shooter for the History Channel, it would be conflicting with CoD, which doesn't matter the slightest because these games were already conflicting with CoD enough.
Jarek "the only way to kill enemies is to throw grenades at them, which then they spaghettify into orbit" Me, is that really a bad thing if I'm getting a laugh out of that? Ragdoll physics will always be funny. Edit: also, am I mistaken or does the Arisaka sound like a Shotgun when it gets fired?
Played this while I was a Marine Corps obsessed child who had just read all the books I could on John Basilone so I did "love" this game. I still remember it not actually being great but it sure did fall into that special interest at the time. Needless to say CoD WaW blew my fucking mind on Xbox after I played that on PS2 aswell.
The History Channel would've been more incentivized to hire a studio to make a decent game if said game had been about ancient aliens and occult Nazis.
You should try out a game called "The Stalin Subway". It takes place in 1952 in Moscow in the Soviet Union. The game focuses on a fictional internal plot against Stalin and the Soviet government, involving blowing up a nuke.
Funnily enough the developer of the Wii and PS2 version (Fun Labs) mainly had a track record of churning out Cabela's games. And they made that Nerf Legends thing recently that crashed and burned hard.
I have to admit, I quite enjoyed both Civil War games, considering theme that's rarely used, especially in FPS (last one that I remember is Gods & Generals, based off the movie..now that would be a video for Jarek lol), using weapons rarely in games, reload and all. Is it low budget and made probably in a few months..sure but I for one enjoyed them for a guilty pleasure fps with a rare theme.
Gods and generals is one of the worst games of all time, but like good luck getting it running nowadays unless you have an old windows 98 legacy PC. Which I do. And man what a stinker. The single shot muskets with no reserve ammo.
Those soldiers are wearing the insignia for the 29th Infantry Division which landed on Normandy in Europe, not the Pacific. So they didn't even get the history part right.
My brother had this game. I remember him saying it was bad and never playing it again. And for years no matter were we moved, when we did spring cleaning, or one of us swearing we threw it out this game was always there. We'd always find it somewhere. And a couple months ago I found the game in a plastic bin with other random stuff.
I admit, I have a small soft spot for Cauldron because of those goofy as heck Cabela's Dangerous Hunts games they made. They are so weird as game concepts. FPS where the enemies who attack you and you shoot are animals, instead of people with guns. Plus that made that Secret Service game I actually thought was decent.
Are you going to review the PS2/Wii ports of the game as well? If so, I think the PS2 ports of the civil war games are also different than the PC/360 versions, so they might be "worth" checking out.
i remember my bro getting this game as a kid, he and i were a huge ww2 junkie earlier in our lives and we happened to get this game around the same time the cod WAW zombie dlcs were fresh out the market. needless to say we played WAW so much more often
I remember watching a video on this game from a RU-vidr that you people might have heard of that plays cod videos with a white background and only shows his hands and plays games. Mostly cod but other obscure games. I didn't even know this game existed until I watched that video. Didn't even know this game was made by the people the last soldier of fortune game. That's just crazy that the last gen version has aim down sight while the next gen version doesn't.
Fun fact you can actually kill them with uncapped fps, you have you find their hitbox away from thier bodies, i saw this at one polish RU-vidr reviewing this game, so ones you find that hitbox your crosshair change red and then you can kill them, it makes the game really hard but it makes up a really ridiculous speedrun category if someone even care enough to speedrun it
I actually remember this game, I remember it very very well, it is in fact one of those WW2 shooters that I remember from my childhood... I won't say fondly but definitely with that rosy red childhood filter. And I remember it that way for one single reason: my PC version of the game had a very unique graphical glitch. The entire game was white. The models were still there, just every texture in the game was white, so it was like playing SuperHot but if the enemies were white and no slow motion. I remember it as my first experience with an utter shit game that I still played anyways because I didn't know any better.
I remember the times seeing no good games at Blockbuster or Rogers Video (Canada) but this one was always on the shelf. Never touched it because I had a horrible feeling it was terrible. Good thing I was right!
Anyone know how to get this to work on PC? I tried compat settings on Windows 10 and I even tried on a Windows XP VM but neither work. The game just instantly crashes.
Fun fact. I don't remember much about this game because when I bought it from game stop it was so badly damaged that it took nearly one hour for it to just start. Every cutscene would last whole minutes as well.
Is this game the same as soldier of fortune payback or is soldier of fortune payback the same as this game? the fact is that both games share certain details such as the shells, some sounds, the objective marks, the death screen. only i noticed this?
That's why I remembered this differently from the gameplay I normally see...I haf the ps2 version. Not a great game either way, but the fact that the ps2 version is significantly better is just...wow.
This game absolutely sucked. The worst thing about it was that you were forced to stay right next to your squad leader at all times, otherwise you would automatically fail the mission. If you want a good WW2 Pacific Theater game, just play Call Of Duty World At War or Medal Of Honor Rising Sun.
In some missions they would give you barely any ammo or a boring gun, so I would grab the first type 100 I could. I don't think I ever really used the Springfield past the first kill lol
History Channel doesn't make documentaries anymore : History Channel is NOW SyFy Channel, SyFy Channel is NOW History Channel (meaning HC is more fictional than SFC, while SFC is more realistic, even South Park made an episode while mocking Thor).
I have this game. And less than ten minutes I got bored and never played it again. Idk why we got this game. I had a gut feeling this was shit and Idk why we still have this in the house hiding in a junk drawer somewhere.
This really is a prime example of a game that is... a game. Like, a technically functional game that ticks off the boxes on whichever bog-standard design template it's using. But a game which then fails to actually be FUN or give anyone a reason to WANT to play it. If your game doesn't have SOMETHING that sets it apart (especially if it's such a generic game, like WWII shooters were around this time period), whether that's a clever new mechanic, a unique or underused setting, even just an interesting art style, nobody's going to care.
Damn my family wasn't really rich when I was a kid so i got this game and to me it was like playing fucking Call of Duty, I absolutely loved it but now that i think about it I don't know how I didn't see all those flaws.
"Darkest Of Days" was another game that featured battles and weapons from the Civil War, although that one was basically a time-traveling Science Fiction FPS rather than a realistic historical FPS.
Dumb question: I'm newer to newer PC Gaming, and what are some good Torrent sites and all that? I'd buy the game if I could, but some are impossible to find.
@@brawler5760 plus I'm new to torrents. I used them back when you could only get MP3 / MP4. IDK how all this "Seeders" and crap works. Like do I need an app like Bit torrent and then download? (similarly to Bluestacks). Or does it just download a file? Heck, IDEK how to use mods.... And no, Google isn't helpful
It's funny that you mention AI because there was this game called " WW2 Combat " and you had to option to play multiplayer with bots.... That bots can't hit each other at all... like they'll be literally two feet in front of each other shooting and shooting and still won't be able to hit each other...
