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  • Summary: If you LOVED the movie and feel the need to get some of your own trigger time, try this simple arcade shooter which finds you as a deck gunner defending the Pacific Fleet against waves of incoming Japanese fighters, bombers, and kamikazees.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 8
  2. Negative: 3 out of 8
  1. For the hour or so at a time that Pearl Harbor retains our interest, it is an immersive experience packed with just enough war-movie realism to achieve a sense of drama. Which means this would have made a fun shareware game or a much lower-priced bargain bin favorite.
  2. This may be amusing to a casual gamer, or even a beginner. Replay value is negative zero.
  3. The length of the game is roughly equal to the time spent viewing the film, plus or minus the time needed to get popcorn.
  4. It's an old-school shoot-'em-up that would have been right at home in a 1980s arcade. Unfortunately, it would have been the dusty game in the corner that no one played...Games like "Defender" and "Missile Command" offered more challenging and exciting gameplay along the same lines 20 years ago. Toss this one in the harbor.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 3
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 3
  3. Negative: 2 out of 3
  1. JackO.
    7
    It gets boring after 35 minutes of the game!
  2. Herman
    4
    It gets boring very quickly. The game developer should have made different locations such as the airport to make it less boring. The graphics are not up to today's standards except the bullets and the planes. The background is dull. Collapse
  3. MafiaGuy
    3
    This plain sucks - a waste of your time...and money :(