New Battleships Game Announced
Guess what genre.
Published: 15:49, 08/02/2012 by Tuffcub.
None.
Activision have announced a tie in game with the upcoming ‘Its-not-Transfomers-at-sea-honest’ Battleships movie.
The game will be a stand alone story and not follow the plot of the movie. It follows elite demolitions specialist Cole Mathis as he ‘clashes against an aquatic-based extraterrestrial peril in the sand and sea of the beautiful Hawaiian archipelago.’
Cole will command the U.S. Navy fleet in a ‘siege on the sea’ in tactical sections and also coordinate the battle on the ground.
Battleships arrives on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 this May and is being developed by Double Helix. ‘Uniquely designed versions’ (i.e. different) will land for the Wii, Nintendo DS and 3DS, these are being developed by Magic Pockets.
In case you had not guessed, the non strategy bits in the PS3 & Xbox 360 versions are in glorious FPS-O-Vision.
Source: Press Release
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08/02/2012 at 15:55
Member since: Sep 2008
You sunk my battleship!
08/02/2012 at 16:06
Member since: Jan 2009
The hell I did!
08/02/2012 at 16:58
Member since: Feb 2010
Sorry about that, was aiming at France…
08/02/2012 at 19:49
Member since: Aug 2008
AMERICAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! F**K YEAH!!!!!!!
08/02/2012 at 17:03
Member since: May 2010
Well, it should have gotten out of my way!
08/02/2012 at 16:05
Member since: Jul 2009
Hmmmm, my ‘dross alarm’ is going off.
08/02/2012 at 16:06
Member since: Nov 2011
Acti doing another FPS. Colour me surprised.
08/02/2012 at 16:22
Member since: Feb 2009
that chess fps i predicted is looking more and more likely all the time.
08/02/2012 at 16:27
Member since: Aug 2009
can’t wait for the Snakes and ladders role playing game
08/02/2012 at 16:57
Member since: Feb 2010
Lol Hazelam, I honestly laughed at that pretty hard. Problem is it’s probably gonna come true :(
08/02/2012 at 16:44
Member since: Forever
They should just re release that little known (but brilliant) PS2 game ‘Naval Ops:Warship Gunner 2′, coz Thats what i thought of when i first saw the trailer for the film
08/02/2012 at 16:55
Member since: Mar 2009
i would love to see a traditional battleships game released for the ps vita that uses AR
08/02/2012 at 17:07
Member since: May 2010
Is Battleship(the film) based on the board game?
I really hope they won’t insist on a full retail price as to be honest, i think it is best suited as an XBLA/PSN game. :) But really, was the FPS bit nesseccary, Acti? It’s Battleships! Not something that i thought needed the FPS treatment.
08/02/2012 at 17:52
Member since: Dec 2008
The film is ‘inspired’ by the boardgame (and also ‘inspired’ a lot by the Transfomers movies). The film stars Rihanna.
I’m sure it will up there with Citizen Kane :)
08/02/2012 at 20:30
Member since: May 2010
The trailer for it has just been released. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn1KpTRKK8U&feature=g-u-u&context=G273d20bFUAAAAAAAAAA :)
I wonder if Rihanna is in it for her acting or her looks?
I hope it is inspired by the good parts of Transformers(the films).
09/02/2012 at 08:58
Member since: Apr 2009
Hey Liam Neeson is in there as well. Bound to be great!
09/02/2012 at 10:45
Member since: Feb 2009
they were inspired by the transforming sound effect judging by the trailer. ^_^
08/02/2012 at 17:43
Member since: Jul 2010
Another lame NON HD game from Activision.
08/02/2012 at 20:50
Member since: Jan 2011
FPS! Yes! Yes! Yes!……sorry got a bit over excited by another FPS!:P
‘clashes against an aquatic-based extraterrestrial peril in the sand and sea of the beautiful Hawaiian archipelago.’
Eh, clashes with a what?
08/02/2012 at 21:41
Member since: Aug 2008
A water based, alien scare with bland yellows and blues and the odd non destructable palm tree. Is that not obvious?
09/02/2012 at 09:44
Member since: Sep 2011
Wait, battleships has aliens now? I suppose it would be too much to actually have a film explore a tense naval standoff.
09/02/2012 at 09:55
Member since: May 2010
You didn’t think Hollywood would actually stick to the roots of BS did ya?
09/02/2012 at 10:55
Member since: Feb 2009
the best thing to do with this movie is try to forget it’s based on Battleships and just think of it as an alien invasion movie with Liam Neeson in it.
it actually looks ok if you think of it that way.
09/02/2012 at 11:10
Member since: Sep 2011
“Where is my daughter?!”