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Battlestations: Pacific Impressions - The Battle of Santa Cruz
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Posted by Donster on: 2008-12-18 17:31:08 624
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We take a look at the follow-up to Battlestations: Midway and how it will re-create a historically crucial World War II battle. An Exclusive "Epic Battle" Trailer too!
By Andrew Park, GameSpot
2007's Battlestations: Midway was an unusual game that combined action and strategy on the Pacific front of the world's greatest war. The air-sea battles between Japanese and American forces provided an opportunity to offer hybrid gameplay that included flying a fighter plane to run raids on Japanese battleships as well as strategically deploying your own vessels out of port. Battlestations: Pacific will expand on its predecessor by picking up after the Battle of Midway. It will offer even more explosive action-strategy gameplay, along with the option to play as both US and Japanese forces, and it will offer new historical battles to fight, such as the 'Battle of Santa Cruz', which took place in October of 1942, four months after Midway. In this preview, we'll take a brief historic look at the battle and what it means for the game that will attempt to reproduce it.
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