Encore Announces Heroes of the Pacific
- April 19, 2004 12:31 PM PST
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Mulitplatform flight sim action game puts you in the shoes of the US forces. Screens inside.
Encore announced today that it has signed an agreement with Australia-based developer IR Gurus to publish Heroes of the Pacific for the PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC.The game puts you in the role of a U.S. pilot, enabling you to fly planes including the F4F Wildcat, F6F Hellcat, F4U Corsair and the SBD Dauntless to fight battles taking place in places such as Pearl Harbor, Midway, Coral Sea, Wake Island, Iwo Jima, and Guadalcanal. Promising an epic story, Heroes of the Pacific takes you through 30 missions, featuring massive dogfights boasting over 300 planes on screen, detailed plane and ship environments comprised of as many as 30,000 polygons, and 32 wingmen in single player mode. LAN multiplayer is supported for the PC, as well as Xbox Live and split-screen play for the Xbox.
"The large scale aerial battles and dogfights were arguably the most important part of the U.S. victory in the Pacific Theater, and no game has really addressed it to date," says Ben Palmer, Technical Director for IR Gurus. "With Heroes of the Pacific, our goal is to put players in the cockpit of some of the greatest WWII fighter planes in some of the most decisive battles of the war, and deliver an experience that clearly establishes this title as the next marquee flight combat game."
Heroes of the Pacific is slated for release in winter 2004, and will see its debut at E3 next month. In the meantime, check out the official page.
