Reception
According to Metacritic, Heroes of the Pacific received 'generally favorable' reviews, with an average score of 76% across all platforms.
- TeamXbox - 86%
- IGN - 82%
- Boomtown - 80%
- Game Chronicles - 87%
Praise for the game includes:
- "With gads of planes and missions, a moving story mode, and total multiplayer functionality, Heroes of the Pacific sets it apart from the competition and puts this into the 'worth owning' category."
- "Heroes of the Pacific does a great job of combining a fun, loose aerial shoot-'em-up with real-life battles from the Pacific Theater of World War II."
- "...Heroes of the Pacific is a genuinely entertaining game for those who dig WWII aviation but don't feel quite like diving into a hardcore sim."
Criticism of the game includes:
- "While solid in its presentation and adequate in its basic gameplay, it's little more than another individually-wrapped snack in the great and majestic adventure of human flight."
- "Difficulty, repetition and an overall lack of tact keep the game from being anything more than an average flight game. It's good enough, but there are far better offerings out there."
- "If intense dogfights and Yankie banter sound appealing then Heroes of the Pacific is for you; sadly the repetitive gameplay is a major deciding for everybody else."
- Despite dynamic graphics and gameplay there are several inconsistencies in the aircraft performance details; For example the G4M "Betty" bomber in the game is heavily armoured and can be hard to shoot down. However, in reality it lacked sufficient armour protection and self-sealing fuel tanks. This made it an easy target for Allied Fighters. Another such inconsistency is that the A6M Zero in the game has superior flight performance when compared to that of the P-38 Lightning and the F4U Corsair. However, in reality the Lightning and the Corsair were far superior aircraft.
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