■ 08/02/08 - Heroes of the Pacific There are no tiny packets of peanuts, your seat belt is unlikely to be fastened, and a crash is imminent when you load up Heroes of the Pacific, an arcade flight simulator game that draws on the terrible tragedies of WW2 to to entertain a new generation of gamers who can barely remember who was on what side or even why they were fighting to begin with.
■ 23/06/07 - Heroes of the Pacific It’s odd that so many choose to concentrate on the European Theatre of Operations. Storming Normandy and the grim struggle for Stalingrad provide meaty scenarios, but they’re only part of the story. On the other side of the world a different type of war was being waged. A war fought in the endless blue of sea and sky.
■ 26/04/06 - Heroes of the Pacific Remember the big one? Remember dubya-dubya two? You’re telling us you don’t get the History Channel? Well you’re about to get a refresher. On this episode of X-Play we head back to WWII for some dogfighting, dive-bombing action in the skies of Heroes of the Pacific. If you want to do your duty to Uncle Sam in a not-too-realistic but fairly enjoyable virtual setting, you just might want to join up and fight the good fight.
■ 08/04/06 - Heroes of the Pacific Aaahh, je me souviens, ma jeunesse et mes rêves de devenir pilote…Et je suis sur que je ne suis pas le seul ! Que celui qui n’en a jamais rêvé lève la main…Bon d’accord, attardons nous plutôt sur le dernier né du studio IRGurus : Heroes of the Pacific. Faire revivre une guerre n’est jamais chose aisée vis-à-vis du public, ce jeu effacera t-il l’histoire pour un plaisir manette en main plus que solide ? Test de Heroes of the Pacific, sur Playstation 2, chez Consoles-Games
