I bought this game a couple of days ago after liking the demo pretty well. It REALLY, really needs an SDK release and a mission editor/creator, though. The scenarios are somewhat disappointing in certain ways, like CVGBs with no sub escort and out of the range of ground-based air cover, when the level clearly has airfields and subs...just in the wrong place. I'd never send out a carrier without attack subs escorting it.
Invariably, having a mission where I have a CVBG on one side of the map and subs on the other, helis have to do all the ASW work, and the enemy has an uncanny ability to know exactly where my subs are almost right at the beginning of the mission thanks to helis that pop out of literally nowhere. If the subs were near my CVBG, like they should have been, those flies would have been swatted out of the air with SAMs long before they caught a sniff.
Missile defenses are almost TOO competent, too; but that's just a small issue.
I'd love to see an SDK release just for the possibility of a WWII mod and battleships slugging it out.
