Carrier At War Views
The game covers every large carrier action in the Pacific theatre from Pearl Harbor onwards. There are seven scenarios in all, each with at least one ahistorical variant that allows players to spice things up with promising what if scenarios. While the number of these alternate history levels may be lacking, any concerns over the game's replayability are unwarranted the developer has gone to great lengths to ensure that each scenario plays out differently each time. Enemy taskforces never show up along the same routes twice and variances in computer behavior go a long way towards adding long-term value to the game.
These points aside Carriers at War does what it sets out to do present carrier warfare in a realistically tense and atmospheric way. With naval strategy games coming about on an alarmingly infrequent basis this latest SSG release is a breath of fresh air, one that we will be repeated in the near future.