Customer Reviews

Battleship Electronic Star Wars edition

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I bought this game for my 6 year old, and was very sorry I spent sooo much money on it! When I buy an electronic version of an established game or toy, I expect it to do some of the work for me. Is that asking too much? But in Star Wars Battleship, the two players have to punch buttons to enter each ship on their side. It takes a looonnnngggg time to set up the game before you can every play. Even in the "Classic" game mode. Then, you just spend your whole time entering coordinates. It takes much longer than the old basic Battleship to play. The only thing that is fun about this version is the voices and the hits that
you make.
My son could do this game after some coaching on how to enter coordinates, but the players still have to keep track of their hits and misses with little red and white pegs. The game does none of the work and tedious stuff for you! The only electronic part of the game are the voices and sound effects. I suppose you could play this game a lot faster by just not turning it on and playing it like the classic board game.
If you are a die-hard Star Wars fan, you will buy this game no matter what I say. In my opinion, though, it is just not worth the money. Especially when a parent sees how much work and hassle the whole game is. We've had more fun over the holidays playing with the basic board game "Trouble" that cost $10.
I would return the game if I could, but the stickers are in place, and the baggies are emptied. Tough luck for me, but maybe I can help someone else avoid the high sticker price, and the hassle.

Electronic Battleship Star Wars Edition. The thought of a Star Wars Battleship and was so thrilled I went out and exchanged the Advanced Mission Battleship I got for Christmas for it. Instead of ships you have 6 distinct Imperial ships and 6 distinct Republic ships that are made of a rubber like material that can get deformed in shape since not plastic. For the Republic you have the Star Cruiser(AC Carrier), Millennium Falcon(Battleship), X Wing(Submarine), Naboo Star Fighter(Destroyer), and the Jedi Star Fighter(Patrol). For the Imperial you have the Star Destroyer, Sith Infiltrator, Tie Interceptor, Droid Star Fighter, and Slave 1. The unit itself has its own Star Wars colors and backrounds to it. Where you put your ships you have Outerspace instead of water. The unit is black instead of grey. You have the same blue, red, and white pegs though. OK on to the game. Having played the Advanced Missions Battleship you will see a slight difference with Star Wars. For example:

Advanced: Submarine - unlimited sonar sweeps 9 holes without knowing exact location
Star Wars: Jedi Star Fighter - 3 sonar scans per game 9 holes without knowing exact location
Advanced: Jets - move around board and scan in 2 different patterns with exact knowledge of location on ships.
Star Wars: Nothing
Star Wars does add something though that Advanced Missions doesnt have and thats the Super Laser Cannon. Its nice but worthless at the same time. What it does is destroy a whole ship if hit with this cannon. So you shoot at one specific peg and if there happens to be a ship there the ship is destroyed even if its the first time hitting this ship. But it has to be in that one peg you shoot at, not around it. You only get to shoot this once per game. It has the same gameplay in everything else though with Classic, Salvo, and Bonus missions. Advanced is just different. I didnt know this at first and was a little bummed I didnt have little jets to fly around and scan for things as well as unlimited sonar sweeps. If I had a choice I would have kept the Advanced Missions now that I know. Its a fun game and a nice concept with Star Wars and a must buy if a Star Wars fan but if you have played the Advanced Mission and love that game play then this is a little different.

Absolutely terrible. I can understand that the game doesn't know where the ships got put automatically - that takes some additional electronics to achieve. But would it have killed them to put in a bunch of cheap 2-color LEDs, to keep track of when you hit and when you missed? Would it have been so hard to make the voice clear and understandable? Why can't you press any buttons until the voice stops speaking each prompt - which slows the game to a crawl as you sit there, waiting for it to finish saying the same stock phrases, over and over? Who playtested this thing, anyway?

Also, ships are poorly constructed - they sit on little stands and they fall off the stands easily - and you have to take them off the stands to pack the game up, so glue isn't an option.

Basically, this is 1.25$ worth of badly engineered electronics in a $49 plastic box, made frustrating to play. NOT a good deal.

This was a gift for my niece & nephew, ages 6 & 8, for Christmas. For DAYS this was all they played with. My nephew, who is a precocious 8, figured out all of the different game modes, which he loved. He then taught the basics to my niece.

It is complex, and would be best for older kids. The best way to play is to have the computer come up with the ship layout rather than enter it manually. My only complaint is that the pieces are very flimsy and pop off easily. Other than that, hours of fun for the kids!

This is an okay game. The Star Wars theme, electronic action and various game scenarios (including advanced weapons) make it fun for kids and adults alike, but several flaws diminish the enjoyment.

The electronic aspect, indeed the big selling point to the game, was poorly exploited. It is really too bad since some more thoughtful design and more authentic audio clips would made it magnitudes better. The primary voice sounds like it came from a bad 1950's science fiction movie, nothing you'd hear in any of the six movies. He annoyingly strings together fragments of short phrases. An Interrupt button will cut him off, but by the time your fingers get to the tiny button, it's probably too late. A helpful Repeat button with repeat the last phrase. A "less verbose" option would be nice.

The game incorporates two very short clips straight from the Star Wars movies (one from Ben Kenobi, the other from the Emperor), heard once each side sets up their fleet positions. The various weapon sounds come from the movies as well, but that's about it. It would've been nice to hear more authentic clips for the two most common sound effects: pushing buttons and hitting ships. When the game ends, you get a terse, "Congratulations. Admiral." (that phrase stringing!) and then immediately launches into setting up another game. How about some celebratory theme music or something?

The game itself is fairly compact and folds up nicely. The overall set is pleasant to look at after you apply the stickers. The game grids are clear plastic, and the critical letter/number axis' are etched into it, making them hard to read. The pegs are squat and can be difficult to insert. The pegs are stored in a small built-in bin, but a recessed "ledge" in the big makes them difficult to retrieve. The plastic ships have a decent level of detail, but they're small and some have fragile-looking components - think the slim parts of the Tie Interceptor. Indeed, several were bent out of the box. The vessels sit on plastic stands over the pegboard - nice idea, but it is nearly impossible to insert the red `Hit' markers in the stand base to mark your opponents hits on your fleet.

The game scenarios are fun. You can choose the classic Battleship game, salvo (each surviving ship gets a shot), a variation where you can shoot until you miss, and the advanced scenario. With the advanced game, you can fire special weapons, such as a cannon that blasts a pattern of coordinates at one time, a torpedo that traverses a line across the board, etc. These add a lot more strategy to the game and is a good introduction to strategic thinking for younger players. Unfortunately, the Advanced game slows down play as you, for example, fumble with pegs marking out a 3x3 area after a cannon shot.

Overall, it is a good addition if you're into the Battleship family of games. But given the poor execution, I wouldn't recommend anyone pay more than $15 for it. I've seen online Battleship-style games with similar strategic improvements for...free!

This game is really boring. You'd think the game would know where you put you're ships, but it doesn't!! You have to enter in the coordinates of the ships you place. The special weapons are fun, but you could do just as well with a plain old Battleship set, making up the secondary weapons. Inventing them is half the fun! The *only* electronic part is the sound effects, and they're not so great. The voices are painfully cut-and-pase sounding. I'm a big Star Wars fan, so I thought I'd like this game, but NO!! If you like the idea of secondary weapons, invent your own and play with pencil and paper!

I don't really know how durable it is; I haven't abused it. The ships do have a tendency to come off the stands, though

For the money this game should be more "electronic" (as it is advertised), and less dependant on manual entries. It takes an agonizing long time to set up the board since each piece's location must be manually entered by each player. This takes so long that none of us are anxious to start a new game. I thought the game would automatically do this. I would not buy it again.

The direction to get started were very hard for a 9 year old & 8 year old to follow. It took over an hour to be able to understand how to play the game but once we figured it out they couldn't stop playing with it.

My Grandson's love it and except for the directions not being clear I would recommend it to anyone.

My kids love this game! Disneyland Park has it for half the price in the Star Wars shop at the end of Star Tours. So don't buy it through Amazon if you are going to be at the park anytime soon!

I've been waiting to get this Star Wars version of Battleship for 8 years. I couldn't find it locally in my neck of the woods, but I found it here on Amazon.com. Now I've got it. All the game pieces were sealed in their bags. This game is a MUST for Star Wars fans.