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[[file:NambuType14Pistol.jpg|thumb|none|350px|Nambu Type 14 - 8x22mm Nambu]]
[[file:NambuType14Pistol.jpg|thumb|none|350px|Nambu Type 14 - 8x22mm Nambu]]
[[File:BattlePacificPS2-WiiNambu.jpg|thumb|600px|none|Player holding the Nambu.]]
[[File:BattlePacificPS2-WiiNambu.jpg|thumb|600px|none|Player holding the Nambu.]]
[[File:BattlePacificPS2-WiiNambu2.jpg|thumb|600px|none|Player aiming the Nambu.]]
[[File:BattlePacificPS2-WiiNambu2.jpg|thumb|600px|none|Player performing a melee attack with the Nambu .]]
[[File:BattlePacificPS2-WiiNambu3.jpg|thumb|600px|none|Player performing a melee attack with the Nambu.]]
[[File:BattlePacificPS2-WiiNambu3.jpg|thumb|600px|none|Player aiming the Nambu.]]
=Submachine Guns=
=Submachine Guns=
The History Channel: Battle for the Pacific
Boxart
Release Date:
November 30, 2007
Developer:
FUN Labs, Cauldron HQ
Publisher:
Activision Value
Platforms:
PC Playstation 2 Playstation 3 Wii XBOX 360
Genre:
First-Person Shooter
The History Channel - Battle For The Pacific is set in the Pacific Theater of World War II. The campaign ranges from Guadalcanal to the Philippines to Iwo Jima. It's the sequel to the 2006 The History Channel: Civil War - A Nation Divided and History Channel Civil War: Secret Missions
There is also a PS2/Wii versions by different developers with different weapons and levels, this version has the player as a solo operative, with no AI friendlies and appears to re-use assets from Call of Duty 2: Big Red One .
The following weapons appear in the video game The History Channel: Battle for the Pacific :
Main 360/PS3/PC Version
Pistols
Colt M1911A1
The Colt M1911A1 is the main sidearm throughout the game by default.
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing Cocking the hammer while drawing.
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing Looking at the empty pistol.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Pressing in a full magazine.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing When the player does nothing for a long time he will swing his sidearm.
Nambu Type 14
Nambu Type 14 pistols are seen in Japanese officers' holsters, but they never use them in the 360/PS3/PC versions, only when in "last stand" after getting down.
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Submachine Guns
Nambu Type 100/44
The 1944 model of the Nambu Type 100/44 modeled with a straight magazine instead of an accurate curved one is used by the Japanese Army in the game.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Type 100 submachine gun with magazine removed - 8x22mm Nambu
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Enjoying the view of Mount Suribachi with a captured "Type 100".
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing Firing the submachine gun. The charging handle is in motion.
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing Inserting another magazine.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Pushing back the charging handle which actually does not move forward after emptying the gun.
Thompson M1A1
The M1A1 Thompson is the standard submachine gun of the U.S Marine Corps. The in-game model is equipped with a 30-round magazine which only includes 20 bullets.
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing Holding the "Thompson M1" in the trenches of Iwo Jima.
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing Taking the empty magazine...
Error creating thumbnail: File missing ...and exchanging it with a new one to which he gives a blow.
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing The third person model. Note the long 30-round magazine.
Shotguns
Winchester M1897
The Winchester Model 1897 Shotgun is first given to you at Guadalcanal. It is a very powerful short-range weapon that will take out any enemy with a few shots.
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing Holding the "Trench gun".
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing Pumping the action after firing a single shot.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Filling in the tube magazine with loose shells.
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Rifles
Arisaka Type 38/Type 99
The Arisaka Type 38 was the rifle used by the Japanese on many levels. It is a simple easy to use the rifle and surprisingly, you never see it with a bayonet.
While called in the game a Type 38, it is modeled off of the Type 99 , other than the receiver markings which is modeled off of a Type 38. For some reason, it is common for video games to call it by the wrong type of to take parts of one gun and put it onto the other.
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing Arisaka Type 99 - 7.7x58mm Arisaka
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Holding a received "Type 38" on Guadalcanal Island.
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing Cycling the bolt-handle.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Placing a 5-round stripper clip on the chamber.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Sinking in the stripper clip. Like many games from this period, the Arisaka is always reloaded with a full 5-round stripper clip, with no regard for rounds still in the chamber.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing The melee attack shows the bolt-handle in detail.
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M1 Garand
The M1 Garand is the weapon you start out with at Corregidor. This was the main rifle in the US Marine Corps.
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing Holding a "M1 Garand" ín the jungle.
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing Getting a new 8-round en-bloc clip.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Putting in the en-clip into the chamber.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Pushing the bolt into battery.
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Machine Guns
M1918A2 Browning Automatic Rifle
The Browning Automatic Rifle cwhich does not appear so often. Especially in the last missions like Iwo Jima.
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing Holding a "BAR" during the last assault on Mount Suribachi.
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing Inserting a full magazine.
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Nambu Type 96
The Type 96 light machine gun is used by the Japanese as a portable weapon.
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing Holding a picked up "Type 96 LMG" during the defense of Henderson Field on Guadalcanal.
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing Starting the reload by moving back the magazine catch.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Removing the used magazine which still has rounds in it.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Brandishing the empty Type 96.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Pressing in a new magazine.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Moving the chargin handle.
Grenades & Explosives
Mk 2 Hand Grenade
The Mk 2 hand grenade was the main grenade used by the U.S Marines, you can kill 1-6 Japanese soldiers with this grenade. You will use 20 grenades in the whole game.
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M15 Anti-Tank Mine
Anachronistic and out-of-place M15 anti-tank mines must be disarmed at one point in the game.
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing Midway through clearing a Japanese minefield, the protagonist is distracted from the question of why the Japanese would lay down a field of unburied American-made anti-tank landmines that haven't been invented yet to stop infantry by said mines' markings; "TM-46 " is written on them, despite that being a completely different (and also anachronistic) mine.
Emplaced Weapons
Browning M1919A6
The Browning M1919A6 can be seen as a usable emplaced weapon.
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing Readying the machine gun after a black screen interrupting the gameplay for the manning animation.
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Browning M2
The Browning M2 is mainly mounted on the patrol & PT boats and is mounted in several places on Corregidor. It can also be mounted in the Wake Island level.
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing Firing the gun at two flying by "Zero" fighters.
Nambu Type 96
The Type 96 light machine gun appears also as a mounted weapon.
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Type 1 47mm Anti-Tank Gun
Several Type 1 47mm anti-tank guns can be seen and destroyed through the campaign
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing A Type 1 47mm Anti-Tank Gun seperated from its crew.
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Type 96 25 mm AT/AA Gun
Japanese Type 96 25 mm AT/AA Guns can be seen in twin mountings in several missions. These AA guns are unusable for the player.
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing A rear view of one Type 96 25 mm AT/AA Gun on Guadalcanal.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Another AA gun seen on a Philippine island.
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Type 97 Aircraft Machine Gun
The Type 97 Aircraft Machine Gun can incorrectly seen mounted on the Japanese Mitsubishi A6M2a Type 0 Model 11 "Zero" long-range carrier-based fighter aircraft's wing instead of in its nose.
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing The Type 97 Aircraft Machine Gun is seen to the left.
Type 97 Infantry Mortar
At the beginning of the first Guadalcanal mission, a Type 97 Infantry Mortar is seen.
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing Examing the abandoned Type 97 Infantry Mortar.
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Type 99 Cannon
Two Type 99 cannons are also mounted on the Mitsubishi's wings.
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PS2/Wii Version
Pistols
Colt M1911A1 (Wii/PS2 Version)
The Colt M1911A1 appeaars, sometiems with a suppressor. (though the game's lack of stealth mechanics makes it not very helpful.)
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Nambu Type 14 (Wii/PS2 Version)
Nambu Type 14 pistols are seen in Japanese officers' holsters, but they never use them in the 360/PS3/PC versions only when in "last stand" after getting down, however, they do use them in the PS2/Wii version.
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Submachine Guns
Nambu Type 100 (PS2/Wii Version)
The Type 100 submachine gun appears, an odd thing is that all regular enemies are either armed with the Type 100 or Type 40 Rifle, both weapons are never encountered together, this is incredibly inaccurate as the Japanese deployed fewer Submachine Guns compared to other armies during the war.
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Thompson M1A1 (PS2/Wii Version)
The M1A1 Thompson appears as the player's starting weapon in a few stages, it appears to be the same model from Call of Duty Big Red One, just with downgraded textures.
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Shotguns
Winchester M1897 (PS2/Wii Version)
The Winchester Model 1897 Shotgun appears in this version of the game, it is just called the "Shotgun" when dropped.
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Rifles
Arisaka Type 44
The Type 44 Carbines appears as the main weapon of the Japanese forces, it is equipped with a bayonet but the player always smacks with the stock in melee.
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing Holding the Type 44 Carbine.
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M1 Garand (PS2/Wii Version)
The M1 Garand appears with a Bayonet, it's the only firearm with 2 melee attacks, alternating between Bayonet Stabs and Buttstroke.
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing Holding the Garand mid-reload, you can see the Bayonet slightly.
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M1903 Springfield
The M1903 Springfield is used as a sniper rifle in several missions.
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Emplaced Weapons
Browning M2 (PS2/Wii Version)=
The Browning M2 is found mounted in a few spots and dual M2HBs can be used on PT Boats.
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Type 92 Heavy Machine Gun
The Type 92 appears.
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing Discovering a Type 92.
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=Grenades
Mk 2 Hand Grenade
The Mk 2 hand grenade appears being used by both the player and Japanese forces.
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