![]() ![]() ![]() Feel like dropping bombs, take control of the bomber, and so forth and so on. ![]() The interesting thing is that at any given time you can take control of any unit you may have on the field. As you play in a mission you will be commanding all your different units from the map screen. As you get promoted in rank, you will unlock better vehicles and gain command of bigger squads. You will also get to control airplanes, bombers, and submarines. Despite these bonus missions and the inclusion of a very good online multiplayer game, it’s disappointing that the single-player campaign is so short.Īt first glance you might mistake this for the WWII edition of the famous Milton-Bradley game Battleship! Even though it is true that most of this game takes place out at sea, the battleships and gunboats only make up a small portion of the controllable units. There are also 10 extra challenge missions focusing on specific types of units from both the Japan and US forces, but the challenge missions aren’t as exciting as the larger story battles. There are about 12 missions in the single-player campaign, and even though a few of those missions can easily take about an hour to complete, you can pretty much finish the campaign in four or five hours. The dialogue in the story is almost comically bad at times, but the characters do a decent job of personalizing the battles, and it’s cool to see your recruit go from cruising around a harbor in a little gun boat to commanding fleets of ships out on the open sea. Between battles, you’ll see beautifully rendered cut scenes intended to develop a story about Henry Walker’s rise through the ranks to eventually become the captain of the massive aircraft carrier known as the USS Yorktown. In the single-player campaign, you play as young Navy recruits Henry Walker, who shows up at Pearl Harbor just in time for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Ok, well now that I have gotten that out of my system, let’s talk about Battlestations: Midway.īattlestations: Midway is set in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II. So if you are madly in love with the WWII games please email me and tell me how you justify playing the same missions over and over again. I used to ask this question to customers when I worked at EB Games, “How many times can you storm the beaches of Normandy?” No one has ever really given me an answer. Each and every game that has come out as of late has showed a different part of the war, not only that most of them have showed the same parts. I am tired of World War II games! Yes, I said it! I mean really, at this point I feel like I could sit down and take a test on WWII and pass with flying colors. ![]()
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