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Eidos sexes up World War II quite a bit, with the inclusion of award-winning burlesque artist Miss Polly Rae as aircraft nose art in Battlestations: Pacific.
In Battlestations: Pacific you don’t just have a chance to play on the side of Japan, you can experience a World War II where Japan wins the war.
Battlestations: Pacific is a very fan-driven project.
I blow up a ship and I win, I blow up a ship and I lose. What the hell is going on here?
Nothing says World War II game like a trailer that kicks off with a Frankie D quote. If you aren’t willing to pony up words of wisdom from Mr. Roosevelt or Winston Churchill, you might as well just make a plain vanilla generic war game and call it a day. That’s not the Eidos way, obviously. This debut trailer for BattleStations: Midway follow-up BattleStations: Pacific has all that and a bag of hip Japanese narration to make sure all the bases are covered. It’s moody, historic, and unintelligible to the majority of our readership. I call that a win.
Last year’s Battlestations: Midway was a great idea! Letting you jump from ship to plane to submarine in a battle is every History Channel junkie’s dream. It’s just a shame the execution couldn’t quite match the idea. Oh well! It sold well enough, and had enough potential, that Eidos are taking another crack at it, announcing today the game’s sequel, Battlestations: Pacific. It’s largely the same deal, though interestingly it’s also letting you take control of the Japanese forces, with two single-player campaigns on offer, one for each side (the first game only had a US campaign). Virtually distasteful kamikaze, anyone? Eidos reassumes Battlestations [GameSpot]
