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Battlestations Midway | 
 enlarge | From: Eidos
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $19.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 1483
Platform: Xbox 360
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8 x 10 x 6
MPN: 20036
Model: 788687200363
UPC: 788687200363
EAN: 0788687200363
ASIN: B000A0XSP4
Release Date: January 30, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Battlestations: Midway in direct command of multiple warships, planes and submarines in this epic solo and online tactical action game. The game follows the story of naval recruit Henry Walker, whose first assignment as a gunner at Pearl Harbor is the starting point of an incredible career at the heart of the US Pacific Fleet in 1942, in what was to become one of the most inspirational military campaigns in history. Play 11 campaign missions, 12 bonus challenges, plus naval training academy in an immersive storyline
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 pass on this March 20, 2008
I had a very hard time getting into this game. It sounds cool, got good reviews, but just didnt work for me. I think they tried to do too much with this and it ends up being a mosh of controls and a strange mix between tactical execution and strategic planning.
Fun Game - needs more features December 24, 2007
I purchased this game a little over a year after it came out. I've been pretty satisfied with it. The graphics are good and the realism is as good or better than any movie I've seen. Watching planes fly by from a ship is a pretty exciting experience. The Naval Academy is a bit tedious, but it does a good job of teaching you how to play. The "challenge" missions become pretty hard after the second one and the friendly AI is not as good as the enemy AI. The campaign battles are pretty realistic too. I was pleasantly surprised that the Battle of the Coral Sea went much like the historical one did. I heavily damaged a Japanese carrier but couldn't sink it.
There are a few features that could be added to the game, such as instant replay. I'm horrible with both air launched and surface torpedos and a replay would help immensely to tell me what I'm doing wrong. It would also be useful if there were more single player missions or a practice sandbox.
Two things about the game are disappointments. First, there is no tech support available at all. That's probably what kept this game from being more popular. Secondly, when you try to play multiplayer and don't have a gold membership, the game gives you some cryptic error about multiplayer priveleges not being enabled. And there's no tech support to call to ask what that means.
 Great Concept but Way Too Short June 13, 2007
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
Battlestations Midway lets you relive WWII as both an airplane pilot, submarine commander and naval tactician. There are a variety of ships, planes and vehicles to work with as you fight on the Pacific.
The graphics are quite nice, as you would expect from an XBox 360 generation of game. The water ripples, the clouds float lazily in the sky. The planes' flaps move as you turn, and the smoke and fire pouring from a damaged ship look convincingly real.
There could still have been improvements, though. The radar / compass is stuck at one size, which just doesn't work well for some missions.
The AI is a mixed bag. You can create a multi-stage move order for your allies, so that they take an indirect route to a target. However, they can't attack once they get there. They just sit and get sunk. If you leave a friend alone for .3 seconds, even the largest ship will somehow get destroyed by a tiny PT boat. Your enemies seem to be relatively smart - but your friends are all dunces.
This can become really challenging if you have, for example, 8 different squadrons of planes in the air that you are juggling, and if you take a moment to help one of them out of a jam, the rest all seem to completely lose their brain cells and die sudden, horrible deaths.
I'm not asking for your pals to win the war for you - but they should at least defend themselves semi-ably.
There are hidden objectives, and ribbons you earn - but they never tell you why you got the ribbon. It wouldn't be that hard for them to fill that detail in.
We didn't find the game "complicated" at all. They have an academy, a bit tedious to be sure, to teach you how to play. There's Campaign mode which walks you through a series of missions - it takes maybe 4 hours to play through them all if you're good. There are also challenges focused on ship, plane and submarine tasks, which let you play as both sides.
So the real question is, is 4 hours plus a few challenges going to make you a happy camper? Sure, you can replay those missions over and over again - but in this day and age, having a game with a main line that can be won in a single afternoon seems unreasonable to me.
A great idea - but they should have spent MUCH more time on developing a robust storyline to go with it.
It's OK, strategy better than game play June 3, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The strategic parts of the game are better than some of the game play, especially the flying. The naval simulation parts are better, and feel more realistic. The flying simulation has a high amount of lag (even a 747 is more responsive in real life than these fighters). Airplanes are not like ships, and there is not this much overshoot. There are better flying sims than this. The ships do have a realistic amount of fluidity. Having to manage resources in the ship while fighting is nice. The graphics are fairly good, but not outstanding. The learning curve is a little higher than some games, and I agree with the other review that states it's tough when you are playing the games between taking care of kids, etc (or bouncing between games and don't play some games for a while)...
 Great strategy game. March 9, 2007
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
This game is great if you want a little more thinking power involved in your game.
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