Originally known as WWII: Pacific Heroes, WWII Fighter Pilot fuses popular 'point and shoot' games with simulation action games. The player transforms into a pilot stationed with his squadron on one of the American aircraft carriers during the war in the Pacific. Some of the game's 20 missions are air missions during in which players combat enemy fighters, shell enemy positions, or torpedo Japanese warships. The player will have at his disposal either the speedy and dangerous Hellcat fighter aircraft or the Dauntless bomber loaded with bombs and torpedoes. Other missions have the player man anti-aircraft machine guns, artillery, or even powerful coastal bombardment artillery, and will defend against enemy air raids or destroy Japanese infantry invasion units.