As some of you know, Ubisoft (The creators of Silent Hunter 3) has a flight pack of 3 games for $20 at Best Buy. You get Pacific fighters, Lock-on, and IL-2 Sturmovik.
I bought it mainly to play Pacific fighters as I loved Microprose's "Aces of the Pacific" and Lucasarts "Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe" back in the early 90s. It is no secret that Ubisoft probably employs some of the best graphics design teams in the business today, and their games show it.
Some of you have been thinking of buying it, let me tell you the cons before you buy though.
The discs in the package for P.F. is version 3.0, and the latest patch is version 4.03. You will have to go here for downloads, and to get the free ones I've been having to use the australian link. It reminds me of using dial up to download the EAW or OP patches back in the day.
http://www.3dgamers.com/games/pacificfighters/downloads/Another thing I dislike is the mission timing, sure you have 8 X speed available, but it takes a while till you get to the action part.
The planes available and mission? Not what was advertised on the box. I will contact Ubisoft and ask WTF? I wanted to torpedo a BB at Pearl, but you only get 2 choices, a Val divebomber or Zero fighter.
The campaign mode? It's there, problem is, unlike A.O.T.P. you only get the most historical missions, and so far what you do or fail to do does not impact the war (They advertised that it does).
So, maybe I got some discs they should not have sent, I'll find out. Apart from all that though? The graphics and details are stunning.
I also need to ask Ubisoft how I can print the manuals for all those games. I configured the joystick but still have not been able to bomb anything yet, and my bombsight reticle (supposed to be automatic) will not work. My periscope did not work on silent hunter 2, but SH 3 did, go figure...