War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition

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  1. onewhosaysgoose
    Oct 11, 2020
    7
    This game should only be bought if you are beyond hooked on oldschool wargames.
    The Draw: Amazing tension and payoff, and combines marine    This game should only be bought if you are beyond hooked on oldschool wargames.
    The Draw: Amazing tension and payoff, and combines marine strategy with naval operational art in a way that feels good when you learn it. It scratches a naval history/alt history/armchair admiral itch in a way nothing else I have seen can quite match.

    The Drag: This game's "learning curve" is a brick wall covered in rusty spikes and anthrax-soaked barbed wire, surrounded by hornet nests and hungry snakes. No hyperbole adequately describes how painful and unrewarding it is to learn this game. It is going to take you a weekend of sorting through ancient forum posts and the butchered remains of the manual for the game this is modded from.
    It will take you more than a full weekend to actually install this game and understand what is going on, and then you'll scrap the campaign you used to learn because it takes forever before things start paying off.

    If you are psychotic or stuck in hospital, and manage to break through, then you do actually have an extremely fun game. It can easily absorb several hours of play, and after the WEEK spent just learning it, these sessions will leave you satisfied in a way almost nothing else can.

    99% of people on the planet will get more fun out of a lighter ww2 navy video game, and for less money. Atlantic Fleet is better at 1v1 gunfights. VASP is a much more approachable pacific war strategy. Silent Hunter 4 will feel less janky than WITPAE (really!) but will have you stuffed inside a single submarine's experience. WITPAE is the final solution to every thought you had while playing other games that demanded more detail and flexibility and content without concern for the game design compromises needed to make a game flow, and I love it.    … Full Review »
  2. mbolme
    Jan 6, 2015
    9
    The game is extremely complex and not for everyone. It is also not well explained, and you have to do a lot of work (spend time on the forums)The game is extremely complex and not for everyone. It is also not well explained, and you have to do a lot of work (spend time on the forums) to understand everything that is happening. That being said, it is a wonderful simulation of the entire War in the Pacific. There is nothing else like it. You are responsible for everything: forming convoys, shipping supplies, training units, building airfields, allocating resources .. everything. I love this game. If it had adequate documentation, it would be a 10.… Full Review »
  3. argekay
    Jul 21, 2011
    1
    I am an addict for war games - just love them. So despite the pricetag ($90), just recently I purchased a copy of War in the Pacific -I am an addict for war games - just love them. So despite the pricetag ($90), just recently I purchased a copy of War in the Pacific - Admiral's Edition, by Matrix Games.

    Matrix Games have added a new dimension to gaming - you have to work out what to do and how to do it. They provide an ingenious little tease in the Game Manual about a Tutorial.
    However, it does not exist. When you contact the Helpdesk they bounce you over to a general Forum where you have got to find out about it yourself.
    The same thing happened on my second query to the Helpdesk - bounced to the Forum. Oh, by the way, the forum is defined as an "unofficial" help forum - so what you find there may not be accurate. It at least means that Matrix Games can get out of any liability for information gained there. Given the behaviour of their Helpdesk it appears to be Matrix Games' policy to block any Helpdesk question by bouncing it over to the Forum - that way they have no liability.

    Quite cute Matrix - no wonder War in the Pacific - Admiral's Edition is clunky, bug ridden and looks like a relic from the past. You clearly keep your customer' at more than arms length.    … Full Review »
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