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
hannes_truce
You sunk my battleship!
BIGAL-1992
The hell I did!
yogdog
Sorry about that, was aiming at France…
Kitch
AMERICAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! F**K YEAH!!!!!!!
The Lone Steven
Well, it should have gotten out of my way!
Amphlett
Hmmmm, my ‘dross alarm’ is going off.
Omac_brother
Acti doing another FPS. Colour me surprised.
hazelam
that chess fps i predicted is looking more and more likely all the time.
Sympozium
can’t wait for the Snakes and ladders role playing game
yogdog
Lol Hazelam, I honestly laughed at that pretty hard. Problem is it’s probably gonna come true :(
discharge
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
Mr-Flame-Head
i would love to see a traditional battleships game released for the ps vita that uses AR
The Lone Steven
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.
Tuffcub
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 :)
The Lone Steven
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).
rht992
Hey Liam Neeson is in there as well. Bound to be great!
hazelam
they were inspired by the transforming sound effect judging by the trailer. ^_^
Awayze
Another lame NON HD game from Activision.
RudeAwakening
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?
Kitch
A water based, alien scare with bland yellows and blues and the odd non destructable palm tree. Is that not obvious?
OriginalJonty (Aran Suddi)
Wait, battleships has aliens now? I suppose it would be too much to actually have a film explore a tense naval standoff.
The Lone Steven
You didn’t think Hollywood would actually stick to the roots of BS did ya?
hazelam
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.
OriginalJonty (Aran Suddi)
“Where is my daughter?!”