Pacific Storm Allies - PC

Pacific Storm Allies Computer Game - 12 year old boys like this game. It's fun and not too graphic. See also Pacific Storm.

I'm holding onto my copy in case I am desperate again, but next I am going to try some of the meatier titles such as Pacific War Matrix, War in the Pacific, War Plan Pacific or Uncommon Valor. I studied the rules for about a week and played through all the tutorials prior to playing a campaign game so I was well versed prior to playing.I played only in a strategic mode and did not use any of the real time battles but the game feels detached in an arcade fashion. You have to click on your ships and then right click on the enemy stack much as you would do in Age of Empires when they appear.One draw of Pacific gaming is an attachment to your named ships, althoguh they are there it seems a bit abstracted. Your stack of ships are in formations. You have to drill down about five levels to see that you actually have carriers in your stack. Even with carriers a strike force is actually called a Battleship expeditionary force (battleships have a higher heiracrchy). Launching carrier strikes seems a bit of a stretch. You right click on the stack and choose air strikes and at times your planes's formations will launch. You then repeat the Age of empires formula of right click the enemies, etc.After action reports are difficult to read as the losses are in a xx/xx/xx format and are displayed differently for attacker and defender. Sunk ships are the second set of hashes for one side, then when you are on the other end it becomes the first set of hashes.Positively you can hand over the logistics to the pc and automate this. It will move troops, resources and supplies around but not very effectively. I moved planes manually from the West Coast to the island bases only to have the pc move them from the island bases to stack on the US west coast again.I think for myself a turn-based game with set static rules such as ZOC's, and easy to recoginze groupings of ships would be more my speed. For those grognards hoping that this real-time game would be a nice quick Pacific war simulation it might pass but will still leaves a bit of frustrating wanting.Three stars only because it ran rock solid, is a novel idea and they are supporting the nich genre that is hard to find.

The AI is seriously messed up generating units and defense not possible using given economy. The game is also extremely buggy even after all the work done with Pacific Storm (I have Pacific Storm also). I've been waiting for a patch as the game is unplayable with constant crash to desktop errors when returning from tactical mode. The support site says one was on the way out for this a few weeks ago now.Updated edit (5/29/2010)CDV updated a workable patch (Pacific Storm Allies Pacific Storm: Allies Patch v1.52 (11.3MB, May 28, 2008)). It fixed the crash to desktops but made the AI even worse. I had the game shelved until now. Game modders have tweaked the game mechanics and units since patch v1.52 to make this game usable now. Luckily the game turns out to be very modable. A World War II modders dream in fact. Several years after buying this product (and several game player mods later) I'm finally enjoying this product emensly and have now just bought another copy. Another classic example of a game released which players fixed with mods. (updated the game rating based on player produced mods)

didn't work, waste of money

This game is fun and a recommended piece/ addon after playing the previous game, without the allies, factions. This game is 10X better then before with the addition of the german's, the russians, the french, and a few others, in the campaign you can play the british, the japanese and the americans.

I received it on time and it is a great addition to Pacific Storm.

This game has a wonderful concept, and starts off well enough but playing the strategic part of the game soon becomes an exercise in futility. It simply crawls to nearly a complete halt. My computer is not an ultimate over-clocked $3000 gaming machine, but it is a new 2-processor 1.9ghz with 4gb of RAM, and nothing else was running. I set the configuration to performance, downgraded all the visual settings, turned off automatic building, upgrading, etc. but still it ticked off time at nearly one-to-one with real life. This is with the timeplay set to maximum speed. The mouse won't even move unless you hit Pause.Don't buy this game unless you have a Cray supercomputer.

Very good game.

windowsXP時代の作品・・・当時は、艦船や艦隊戦モノが、少なくてましてや太平洋モノが、精々国内の某作品群『提督の・・』や『OX戦記』等くらいでしかプレイ出来ず　（※過去のDOS洋ゲーやPC-98系は、多かったので楽しんだ諸兄も多いと思う）コレは、・・・帝国海軍大好きさんにお薦め出来ません。　艦船の種類が、少なく、艦名のミスや姉妹艦不備が、有るので怒りを覚えます。海外では、そこそこ有名でフォーラムやファンサイトが極僅かですがありますが、閉鎖されたトコもありMOD導入で多少遊べたり、改造も出来ます。一応RTS系プレイなので・・・好き嫌いが別れ、作戦MAPや操作IFでイラつくかもしれません。　慣れれば・・・そこそこですが。日本語版も販売されてましたが、こちらは、MOD導入は、厳しい様です。　安いので箸休めプレイ程度の作品。