Ubisoft recently announced that their arcade flightsim, Heroes of the Pacific, has obtained gold status. Heroes of the Pacific, under development with IR Gurus Interactive will be available for Xbox and PS2 on September 30th. PC-gamers will have to wait till October, when the PC version will be released.

Heroes of the Pacific is set, quite unsurprisingly, in the Pacific Ocean where you will be able to fight for country and glory in many of illustrious and memorable clashes in aviation history. Be prepared to take on the enemy above Pearl Harbor, Iwo Jima and Wake Island.

The game will contain six different gamemodes and will feature 35 playable and modifiable WWII planes. Below is a short list of key features:

• More than 150 planes fighting on-screen, each with full artificial intelligence and physics.
• 10 campaigns, with 26 missions taken from real events of the Pacific campaign including Pearl Harbor and Iwo Jima.
• Six game modes (Campaign, Instant Action, Single Mission, Historical, Training, Multiplayer and Online (fierce online multiplayer support for up to 8 players).
• Compelling and dramatic story featuring historical footage.
• Arcade and professional control modes.
• Player-controllable wingmen through a fast and intuitive menu system.
• Highly detailed plane and ship models with complex lighting and environment effects.
• Varied mission types: Ground attack, ground support, escort defense, patrol, torpedo and dive-bombing.

For those of you who are not into ultrarealistic flightsims, this might just be what you're looking for.

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