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Task Force 1942: Surface Naval Action in the South Pacific

66% positive of 30 Steam reviews

Released: 2014
Steam Deck: Not tested
Platforms: Steam

Made by MicroProse Software.

About the game

A Long Lance torpedo rips through the hull of your flagship. Huge columns of water from enemy gunfire surround your battleships. It's just another day in Task Force 1942, the first in a new series of spectacular World War II Pacific War simulations from MicroProse.

Tagged by players

Naval Combat
Naval
World War II
Simulation
Retro

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What players say

Recommended
A great game given new life. A couple of hints to improve gameplay. The game only runs slow because the CPU cycles in dosboox are set too low by default. To change this hit alt-enter while in game. This makes the window smaller so you can see the CPU count on the top left, it should read 3000. Hit Ctrl-F12 many times till it reaches a smooth frame rate, this is around 52301 for me. Hit alt-enter to return to full…
42 h played when written. 115 found it helpful.
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Recommended
An initially disappointing re-release of an old relic. Oversights included a missing manual, an unapplied patch, unoptimized DOSBox settings, broken DRM and some "extra" files. This issues have thankfully been corrected, so I can recommend this game now... with caveats. This is a direct-to-DOSBox dump of the 1992 game. If you were expecting any modern updates or conveniences, you won't get them. TF: 1942 decent…
11 min played when written. 43 found it helpful.
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Not recommended
I took the plunge, having played the title when if was first released, and I have to say that this is worse than even I recall it being. To make matters even worse, ship recognition is still in play as a form of DRM, and with no manuals or ship recognition guides (the ones that came with the boxed release) it's hit & miss guessing. And, like the original, if you guess wrongly 3 times, you are tossed into the same…
7 min played when written. 89 found it helpful.
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