Most anticipated and most disappointing game ever
EA created a highly polished graphical engine, then bolted a bug ridden game onto the back of it. This is reflected in the speed of which the patch was released and the thousands of requests for a second patch contained on many forums. Most noticable of complaints about Pacific Assault is the sudden appearance of enemy soldiers due to the levels being divided up into zones and the positions of the enemy troops not being populated within those zones until all the men in your unit had entered the boundary of the zone. The result of this is that you cannot scout ahead of your unit because you could actually have a enemy soldier appear right in front of you. (This actually happened to me on numerous occasions, and once I suddenly found myself in amongst 3 Japanese soldiers).
The bugs in the gameplay were obviously too numerous to fix as despite many requests in forums and statements from people indicating they had emailed EA directly, no second patch for Pacific Assault was ever released, effectively resigning the game to the scrapheap of failed releases.