Battlehawks 1942

Battlehawks 1942 is a Video game developed by LucasArts (at the time, Lucasfilm Games) left in 1988 and proposing with the player to revive the principal naval battles of the Guerre of the Pacific.

The player can choose several theaters of operations:

it can also choose to play:

On a hunter (missions of interception, typically, the American apparatus Grumman F4F Wildcat)
On a bomber destroyer (missions of attack - to steal to the strong current of water for Torpedo R a enemy Ship)
On a bomber of piqué (typically, the American apparatus Douglas SBD Dauntless: these missions are most impressive, it acts to fly very high and, once above it enemy ship, to prick out of arrow on him to release its bomb at the last time)

And finally, it is possible to play:

on the American side
on the side Japanese

The play was of a realism seizing for the time in spite of its low graphic qualities. Nevertheless, to play the part of a bomber of plunging piqué on a Aircraft carrier Japanese remainder a disconcerting experiment.

The play was also greeted for its historical acuity. Scenes such as the destruction of the American aircraft carrier Yorktown are remarkably faithful to reality. It should be noted that Lucasfilm Games had been surrounded technical advisers of first choice (in particular Richard Best, which ran a Japanese aircraft carrier on board Dauntless during the battle of Midway).

External bonds

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Screenshots
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