![]() ![]() If that doesn't sound like an accurate recreation of the board game you played as a kid, it's because the movie looks less like Battleship, and more like Michael Bay's Transformers movies. ![]() "Combining naval strategy simulation with first-person shooter gameplay, players fend off the enemy beachside while ordering attacks against their marine counterparts," the announcement reads. Interestingly, they've hired Double Helix to helm the project, whose resume includes Front Mission Evolved for Square Enix and GI Joe: Rise of Cobra for EA.Ĭoming first to PS3 and Xbox 360, Battleship will be a "standalone" story that combines strategic naval command with "first-person action gameplay." Yes, Battleship is turning into a first-person shooter.Īccording to the press release, Battleship will allow players to "seamlessly" switch between the first-person battlefield and the "Battle Command" overview map. That smaller scale makes it a good way to get a bit of a Battlefield fix in advance of the new title, out in October.Activision has announced that it will be making a licensed video game based on the upcoming movie adaptation of the Battleship board game. It was a download-only, lower-priced game designed as an alternative to the larger-scale 1942, which was still a fairly risky move for a major publisher to take at the time. ![]() The matches aren't quite as big as what the series is working with now: maximum size is 24 players, down considerably since Battlefield: 1942. It's also now part of the EA Access Vault, so EA Access subscribers get it for free.īattlefield 1943 is, like the upcoming Battlefield 5, a vehicle and infantry-based war simulator set in World War 2. As with all backwards compatibility titles, you can play the thing for free if you've got a disc lying around, or you can pay $9.99 in the Xbox marketplace. EA originally released the game in 2009 on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, coming just on the tail end of when World War 2 dominated the shooter market: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare had changed the game just two years before. Battlefield 1943 just became available on Xbox One through Microsoft's backwards compatibility program, the company announced today. ![]()
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