

Some of the more important aspects of the war really get hammered home as you slog through the campaign week by week, such as "Jeez, American fighers were really bad at the beginning, and you have to wait forever for the Hellcat." (After playing through a couple of these campaigns, I've decided that I'd rather lose Tulagi than lose an Atlanta-class AA cruiser: American flak is just so righteous.) Be prepared for 100-200 hours of game play to get through an entire campaign from Pearl Harbor to Japan's surrender (and a fast computer doesn't hurt, either).

The graphics (particularly the map) are just god-awful, but as a strategic exercise it is very interesting. In other words, this game is just stupefyingly large. This is a BIG game, covering every aspect of the entire Pacific war, and containing every ship, aircraft squadron, and brigade-size or better land unit that fought in the war.
