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It's called battle ship, not super battle ship!
4
Rating: 4,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User
It is very fun, but the computer cheats by using weapons you don't have and by almost always hitting you every time it's its turn. It's still a good buy for a collector or if you just like battle ship in general.
Not bad, but not great either
3
Rating: 3,
Useful: 3 / 3
Date: October 17, 2003
Author: Amazon User
Battleship is a classic board game, but as anyone who owns a video game console or two knows - board games get old fast. This means a video game take on a board game is usually a failed experiment. However, with Battleship, the video game company decided to step things up a notch, and make a game that was far superior to its board game counterpart. Did they succeed? Read on for my review of Battleship - for the Game Boy.
PROS:
-The biggest problem with the classic Battleship board game was that you needed a friend to play with. That's not a problem here, because you can simply play the computer if you wish.
-If you still want to play with your friend, the game is two-player compatible, provided you have the proper equipment.
-Perhaps the greatest superiority about this game over its original board game counterpart is that you don't have to worry about losing those little pegs and ships.
-To make gameplay progress faster, the board is smaller (it's an eight-by-eight grid rather than a ten-by-ten grid like the board game uses.)
-Though the game, for the most part, follows the "take turns firing one shot" strategy the board game does, there are also special weapons you can use. This makes the game MUCH MORE ENTERTAINING than the board game version.
CONS:
-As with all classic Game Boy games, if you want to link up and play against your buddy, you need two Game Boys, two Game Paks, and a link cable. Together that's a pretty hefty price tag!
-The computer cheats. It has an UNLIMITED SUPPLY of special weaponry, and whenever it uses a special weapon, IT NEVER MISSES. Expect to lose to the computer A LOT.
OVERALL:
Overall this is a pretty good game, albeit a bit dated. If you find this one in the budget bin, it's a worthwhile timekiller. Just don't pay too much for it - it's a good game, but it's nothing revolutionary.
I enjoyed it but...
2
Rating: 2,
Useful: 5 / 6
Date: July 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User
Well, this ain't the game you used to play on your table top with pegs. Sure, you're still firing at spots on a grid, but this time you've got devastatingly powerful superweapons like the Trident, which fire as many as 9 shots at a time. The submarine has a radar which can detect ships in the water.
The game is really long and it's fun to watch missiles fly at the little onscreen silhouette. I had fun with it, and it's good fun to link up with a buddy to play. If you have a friend who owns this game and will multiplay with you, get it; it's a riot.
However, you'll be hardpressed to find someone to play against. The single player game isn't that great because the computer blatantly cheats. Anytime the computer fires a superweapon it WILL hit a ship of yours. Anytime the computer uses radar, it WILL detect a ship of yours. Even if you only have your submarine left, and it's entrenched in a sea of missed shots, the computer will still waste an entire Trident 9-shot weapon on it, with the only empty space being fired at containing your sub.
Also, while you have a finite amount of superweapons to use(usually one of each), the computer can use them at will. In one particular battle, I actually had THREE tridents(the 9-shot) launched at me. How are you supposed to win against that?
Like I said, the single player game was pretty long. When you do win, you get an extraordinarily [bad] end-game sequence. Oh well.
Classic Game Bombs
2
Rating: 2,
Useful: 39 / 52
Date: January 06, 2000
Author: Amazon User
This game is often too predictable. For example, your opponent always gets a hit when they use submarine radar. In addition, it is not that challenging because after about a week or so, I had reached the maximum level. I consider myself to be not that skillful in general (regarding video games, that is).
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