P.T.O. IV - Pacific Theater of Operations

PlayStation 2 · 2004 · EU

Also known as: Pacific Theater Of Operations 4 · P.T.O. IV : Pacific Theater of Operations (US) · Teitoku no Ketsudan IV (JP)

THQ Koei

Publisher: THQ · Developer: Koei

The fourth installment in Koei's P.T.O. series brings strategic naval combat to the PS2. There are two levels of play: global strategy and resource management are handled with a turn-based system on a world map while individual battles are fought using a real-time system on a much smaller scale. The campaign can be played as the Americans, British, Japanese, or Germans, starting either in September 1939 or December 1941. If a players chooses to be American or Japanese with a 1939 start date, they will sit on the sidelines and watch the war until December 1941, but they will still be able to gather resources and spend them to build units or develop technologies. Players can also concoct "what-if" scenarios by changing which countries belong to which powers: for example, one could play an Alliance of America and Germany against an Axis of Japan and Great Britain, or even play three-on-one for more of a challenge.