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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
He who seeks peace should be prepared for war!, October 14, 2005
Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars
Battalion Wars which is a game that combines strategy and action to the point where it's one of my favorite games. You take the role of a commander and command your battalion from the direct control of a unit. You can order your units to follow you, attack an enemy unit, move to a certain position, defend a designated spot, and much more. You don't have to worry about aiming since you can lock on to enemy units and you can also roll to avoid incoming fire. Each mission puts you in command of a battalion of units and you have to complete certain objectives and secondary objectives such as capturing a capture point or rescuing a group of soldiers. You can change the unit you're controlling whenever you want and you can order individual units at a time. You don't have to worry about ammo except for reloading and your weapon overheating from firing too long. I hate how the game is so short because you can beat it in about 6 hours or so and the missions aren't very long either. But the good part about it is that time really flies by when you're playing through them. One time I started playing at 6:40 and when I was done playing I thought it was 8:00, but I looked up at the clock to find that it was 11:00. The bad part about the game is the imbalance of difficult and easy missions. In campaign the number 2, the first mission is kind of hard if you don't know what to do while the last mission of it is almost impossible to lose. Most of the missions can be beaten by taking a single unit(I mean like a bazooka or mortar veteran) and blowing everything up and this includes the last mission. I would like to see a multi-player in it though. It's short, but a good game and I hope to see a sequel.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Kid and Parent like this war game, August 21, 2006
A Kid's Review
Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars
Battalion Wars is a game you won't regret buying. It is the best game I ever played! I like it better than Star Wars Battlefront II because it's more challenging and you can do more things. My parents like Battalion Wars because it's less violent than Star Wars BF II. It's more strategy, not just shot and kill. The game takes you through all sorts of missions across the Tundra, Xlyvaniania, and the Dune Sea. You are a commander commanding the Western Frontier against the Tundra. The missions won't just take you five minutes, they are really challenging. Your army has all kinds of tanks, recons, and other vehicles. You have rifles, flamethrowers, and even bazookas. It even has amazing graphics. All in all, you do not want miss this GREAT game!
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Kid Friendly Combat, August 5, 2006
Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars
In Battalion Wars, you're cartoon army characters in an imaginary world, taking on suspiciously Soviet sounding enemeies. It's a fighting game for kids.
You are egged on through your missions by a "drill sergeant" type as well as a bubbly "cheerleader" girl. Both voices are very stereotypical and get a bit grating after a while. Luckily you seem to be able to listen in on all of your enemy communications, while they taunt you in broken Russian-accented diatribes.
You are known as "commander", and you can direct individual troops or mechanized units on the field. You can tell other troops to follow you, forming platoons to move en masse on a target. There are a variety of troop types to work with - basic infantry, bazooka men, bombers, tanks, copters, and so on. You have to use some basic strategy to achieve each victory. Simply charging straight at the objective rarely works.
The game embraces and plays up its cute atmosphere. There isn't blood when you kill enemies - instead, a little ghostly skull floats up from their body. There's the traditional 'health' items laying around the field to heal you.
In general the graphics are quite good, although having cartoony characters blowing away enemies without a second thought does give me pause. The sound is reasonably good - there's the generally military sounding backgrond which is rather innocuous. I found the voice acting to be silly and cliche, but that's what they were aiming for.
What really was missing here was a multiplayer mode. If we go with the idea that this was meant for non-adults, then you would think either that friends would want to play together in co-op mode, or maybe that parents would want to play with their kids as a way to have fun together (or to help out a younger kid who was stuck somewhere). It seems a real shame that there was no option to do this.
I also felt a bit uncomfortable with the whole premise. The storyline is that the "Russians" were looking for peace - but that the warmongering "Westerners" were bored and decided to go fight to have some fun. Then they blow away anybody foreign they see. And it's all cute. I realize that this shouldn't be any "worse" than say Mario jumping on Koopas, but for some reason it seems more questionable to me.
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