Product: Battle 360: Complete Season 1 [Blu-ray] (2010)
Rating: 4.0
Excellent series - 4 and a half stars
I just finished watching the Battle 360 series on History HD, and can't recommend this series enough for anyone interested in the Pacific theater of WWII. Battle 360 follows the exploits of the USS Enterprise and her crew from Pearl Harbor through the Empire's last stand involving Kamikaze attacks on the Big E. Prior to viewing this, I had not realized that for a period of time the USS Enterprise was the ONLY operational US air craft carrier in the entire Pacific theater. As the Enterprise was involved in a very high number of the important Pacific naval battles, it makes an excellent vehicle through which to tell the story.What makes Battle 360 stand out is the battle sequences are depicted using CGI, so we get a view of the action as most of us have never seen before. The CGI battle scenes are very well done. In addition, like most History Channel series the action scenes are broken up with clips interviewing WWII survivors that served on the Enterprise as well as military historians.I imagine I will end up purchasing more than one of these DVD sets to give as gifts to some of my history nerd friends and family members. The only reason I didn't give this excellent series 5-stars is that after enjoying it on History HD I would have liked to see it released on Blu-ray in addition to DVD. I doubt the DVD format can really allow the excellent CGI graphics to shine as they do in HD (though the series will undoubtedly still look very good and is very much worth purchasing).