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Best game ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have played a lot of video games, and this is one of the best I have ever played. It is the only game I have heard of that is a combination of Third Person Shooter and Real Time Strategy. The gameplay is easy to learn, but slightly confusing if you are used to FPS games. One of the best things about Battalion Wars is the ability to freely switch between ALL of your units during the mission, instead of being constrained to a single unit.
There are also many different ways to beat the missions. The first time I played one of the missions, I played through it normally and got an average score. The next time I played that mission, I messed up at the beginning and lost all of my units except a rifle grunt, swam out to the island, ambushed the enemy, rescued the POWs, and beat the mission WITH A BETTER SCORE!
All in all, this is one of the best games to get if you are looking for a game of any type. The only complaint I have is no multiplayer.

Fun for a little while...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: August 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I generally expect a very high quality from Nintendo games, so maybe this will be a bit unfair, but I had several complaints with this game.

1. The controls are clunky. Instead of moving the character and using the targeting reticle secondarily, the character follows the targeting reticle at all times. Often you end up pointing straight up to the sky or straight down to the ground during the heat of battle.
2. It's difficult to control your army. You cannot control portions of your army to attack different things. A positive example would be Pikmin. BW allows you to either control one character at a time or all characters of a particular type, but nothing in between.
3. Making war seem cute and kid friendly, plus pitting grossly stereotypical countries (US, Russia, East Asia, and Eastern Europe) in diametric opposition to each other seems less than educational for my children.

I Love This Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is one of my all time favorite games. Even though the graphics are cartoonish and it looks like a game for kids, it's really fun for everyone. The only thing that could have made this game better was a multiplayer mode.

I really can't wait for the sequel to this game for wii Battalion Wars 2. With news vehicles like ships and submarines and mutiplayer over the internet it is sure to be an amazing game.

Battalion Wars

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the most enjoyable games that I have purchased for the Gamecube. If you are a fan of real time strategy games, I highly recommend Battalion Wars.

I HAVE 1 GAME FOR GAMECUBE. THIS IS IT

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: January 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The closest thing to command & conquer available for the Gamecube.
Command one unit, all units, or select units.

Tanks
Artillery
Riflemen
Poison gas
Grenadiers
Helicopters
Jet Fighters
Bazookamen
Scout vehicles
Flame-throwers
Machinegunners
Low level bombers
Hi altitude bombers
Tank-killer vehicles
Shoulder-fired anti-air missilemen
The only thing missing is ships.

The first scenario is the turtorial.
Controls are easy to learn, a little more difficult to master, but not overly-hard.
One big selling point is that the scenarios are easy to access (no passwords or codewords or necessary).

Definition of combat: lacking everything but enemy!

And just like in real combat,
your damned officer won't get the hell off your radio,
and the troops won't stop asking stupid questions!

Multiple characters.
Multiple weapons.
1 player.
Real time shooter.
Tactics.
Auto targeting.

The narrative is 3-stooges soap-opera but irrelavent so who cares?

Strategy guide is most helpfull but not necessary.

Better than "Conflict Desert Storm".

If you like this game try Conflict Zone: Modern War Strategy PS2.
If you like this game try "Command & Conquer" PS1.
If you like this game try the movie Too Late the Hero

Strategy guide
Official Nintendo Battalion Wars Player's Guide

Sold-seperate companion:
Gamecube Console Platinum

Kid and Parent like this war game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 9
Date: August 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Battalion Wars is a game you won't regret buying. It is the best game I ever played! I like it better than Star Wars Battlefront II because it's more challenging and you can do more things. My parents like Battalion Wars because it's less violent than Star Wars BF II. It's more strategy, not just shot and kill. The game takes you through all sorts of missions across the Tundra, Xlyvaniania, and the Dune Sea. You are a commander commanding the Western Frontier against the Tundra. The missions won't just take you five minutes, they are really challenging. Your army has all kinds of tanks, recons, and other vehicles. You have rifles, flamethrowers, and even bazookas. It even has amazing graphics. All in all, you do not want miss this GREAT game!

Kid Friendly Combat

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 12 / 13
Date: August 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

In Battalion Wars, you're cartoon army characters in an imaginary world, taking on suspiciously Soviet sounding enemeies. It's a fighting game for kids.

You are egged on through your missions by a "drill sergeant" type as well as a bubbly "cheerleader" girl. Both voices are very stereotypical and get a bit grating after a while. Luckily you seem to be able to listen in on all of your enemy communications, while they taunt you in broken Russian-accented diatribes.

You are known as "commander", and you can direct individual troops or mechanized units on the field. You can tell other troops to follow you, forming platoons to move en masse on a target. There are a variety of troop types to work with - basic infantry, bazooka men, bombers, tanks, copters, and so on. You have to use some basic strategy to achieve each victory. Simply charging straight at the objective rarely works.

The game embraces and plays up its cute atmosphere. There isn't blood when you kill enemies - instead, a little ghostly skull floats up from their body. There's the traditional 'health' items laying around the field to heal you.

In general the graphics are quite good, although having cartoony characters blowing away enemies without a second thought does give me pause. The sound is reasonably good - there's the generally military sounding backgrond which is rather innocuous. I found the voice acting to be silly and cliche, but that's what they were aiming for.

What really was missing here was a multiplayer mode. If we go with the idea that this was meant for non-adults, then you would think either that friends would want to play together in co-op mode, or maybe that parents would want to play with their kids as a way to have fun together (or to help out a younger kid who was stuck somewhere). It seems a real shame that there was no option to do this.

I also felt a bit uncomfortable with the whole premise. The storyline is that the "Russians" were looking for peace - but that the warmongering "Westerners" were bored and decided to go fight to have some fun. Then they blow away anybody foreign they see. And it's all cute. I realize that this shouldn't be any "worse" than say Mario jumping on Koopas, but for some reason it seems more questionable to me.

The Greateset shooter game fo Gamecube ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is probably the best game for kids who want to play war games. The graphics are phenomenal and almost never get blurry.
The sound is probably the best I have have heard in any game and it always lines up with peoples mouths (except your CO). This has great missions and they get they harder as you go along. If they have a number two the need a Co-OP mode.

Ten-Hut Soldier

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 15
Date: April 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game has geat graphics good voice over they also have many attackts. The bad thing is when enemy planes start to fly over you and your surrned by your men you can not get out. The other men will just get shot ensle you order it. There is no Muttilplayer in this game. You like war game that doesnt need any of your friends than get this. Otherwise get Call Duty or StarWars Battle Front.

A Fun War Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 12
Date: March 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Battalion Wars combines strategy, command decisions and shooting with a format that takes the gore out of war. If you are not a fan of bloody life-like shooter games, but enjoy the strategy of winning a battle you will like this game. The missions are challenging, but very doable. You can complete a mission, but since you are graded on speed, tactics and power, the game stays interesting by going back to try and improve your score.

I bought it for my son and we both have enjoyed learning it and trying to outdo each other in getting the best score for each mission. The only thing lacking is a multiplayer mode that would allow us to battle together at the same time. Still, this is one of the best war games on any platform.

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