Pacific Storm review

Apeboy · 01-07-07, 03:34 PM

Neal, I'm a little taken aback at your "A" rating for the strat map. In PS you are completely at the mercy of a inneffective AI when it comes to forming fleets and supplying bases. Not to mention vessel upgrades.

If you attempt to meddle with this, things go awry in a hurry. There is no way to setup your own supply lines or fleets. Heaven help you if you lose a transport(s) during the war. You can't replace one ship without a major undertaking in the science of spreadsheet management. That goes for pretty much the entire strat portion of the game. The amount of drilling down spreadsheet after spreadsheet to find the most generic information is ball-busting. There is no sane way to manage base,fleet or monetary needs. While you can manage dozens of provences in games like M:TW, trying to manage a handful of bases in PS is just not worth it. Unfortunately you cannot trust the AI do it for you either.

Not to mention the 20+ CVs buried in transport fleets scattered throughout the Pacific for the US at the outset of the game. This is just one example of the too numerous to mention bugs in this game. My favorite so far is Japan declaring war on me at Guam with 2 CLs vs. 15 fully escorted CVs and subs too numerous to count. These vessels were given to the US player at the start of the game.

-Apeboy

01-07-07, 03:34 PM	#3
Apeboy Watch Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 25 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Neal, I'm a little taken aback at your "A" rating for the strat map. In PS you are completely at the mercy of a inneffective AI when it comes to forming fleets and supplying bases. Not to mention vessel upgrades. If you attempt to meddle with this, things go awry in a hurry. There is no way to setup your own supply lines or fleets. Heaven help you if you lose a transport(s) during the war. You can't replace one ship without a major undertaking in the science of spreadsheet management. That goes for pretty much the entire strat portion of the game. The amount of drilling down spreadsheet after spreadsheet to find the most generic information is ball-busting. There is no sane way to manage base,fleet or monetary needs. While you can manage dozens of provences in games like M:TW, trying to manage a handful of bases in PS is just not worth it. Unfortunately you cannot trust the AI do it for you either. Not to mention the 20+ CVs buried in transport fleets scattered throughout the Pacific for the US at the outset of the game. This is just one example of the too numerous to mention bugs in this game. My favorite so far is Japan declaring war on me at Guam with 2 CLs vs. 15 fully escorted CVs and subs too numerous to count. These vessels were given to the US player at the start of the game. -Apeboy