Taiheiyou No Arashi - Yamato - Playstation 2

Opening video for the recently released Playstation 2 game Taiheiyou No Arashi. The Battleship Yamato's last stand - in this alternate ending to operation Ten-Go, Yamato survives the American airstrike and prepares to engage the Pacific Fleet.

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Entertainment

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• Taiheiyou
• Arashi
• yamato
• playstation
• ten-go
• japan
• musashi
• battleship
• navy

[Baburu]

I've been looking at getting this, is it any good?

[KanedaSaturn]

Its a nice strategy game, but you pretty much have to be able to read and understand Japanese to get anywhere. There is kanji everywhere which will make it difficult even for those who have mastered the katakana and hiragana.

[Zhdophanti]

@BrucknerMotet

Well if the game where to close to realitiy i think it wouldnt be very funny to play :)

[BrucknerMotet]

Overly optimistic number of American planes getting hit. Wasn't the cloud cover pretty bad on April 7, 1945? I guess in a computer game fantasy you can get rid of cloud cover and improve visibility for the antiaircraft gun crews on the machine guns and 5 inchers.

[TheWoodstock2009]

@sideim his video was made 3 years ago -.-

[spartanwarrier]

very good vid but the logic of it is not so great, 1st Flak was not that accurate, 2nd the U.S carriers would not be that close, 3rd the Yamato had no air cover when it set sail.

[lebarosky]

Great vid thanks.

[sideim]

This game was fucking 3 years ago HOW THE FUCK IS THIS RECENT

[osher8595]

well....

try battlestaions 2 of you like this,if u play japans campagin you will rewrite history

[sol3a1]

@Luminahawke - Then we are agreed

As they were in 1944, I'd take the Iowa's over any other BB in any Navy and I'd say the North Carolina's and the SoDak US BB classes (almost identical) would be contenders with any other BB the the world in 1944.

I'm not saying the Showboat or SoDak would win the majority of fights if they went up against the Yamato or Musashi, but either of them would know they had a fight on their hands.

[Luminahawke]

@sol3a1 But there lies the problem, it did not, so hense despite it's size and mass it is not really all that great of a war ship.

I agree that bigger is not better if you can not hit your enemy, I told someone a while back once you get into the size catagory of a battle ship, it really matters on hitting your enemy, not who has the most armor or biggest guns. The guns out raced the armored protection on battle ships, few have armor strong enough to take even 11" shells.

[sol3a1]

@Luminahawke - If you were to get the FCS of the US BBs on the Yamato, the only US BB class that could have a chance would be the Iowas but I would still pick the Yamato, if he has the FCS

My whole contention is bigs and big armor is fantastic but like being a super heavy weight, if you're slow and have a hard time hitting a heavy who is faster and hits you 2 or 3 times as often will have the best chance of winning