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My Thoughts on Battlestations Midway

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: May 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is an excellent game featuring many single player scenarios and lots of multiplayer action. If you are in the market for a war simulation game, this is one of the games that you need to try.

So far this game is pretty neat

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 36 / 38
Date: February 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I just installed this yesterday and started getting into it. Installation itself went smoothly. The game tells you upfront what kind of performance to expect given your computer's capabilities. As for the game there's 11 training missions that cover the controls, although since they teach the keystroke commands I forgot some of them quickly. The best thing so far is that the interface is quite simple to control all the different vessels. For someone who is interested in playing a submarine game but doesn't want to spend 40 hours learning how a real sub works (e.g. Silent Service III) this is the game for you. What can be considered both a plus and minus, an example of this approach is that the sub has 4 choices of depth: surface, periscope, deep, and too deep to spot but too deep to stay long. Bombing has been simplified as well. However, as a real-time strategy game I expect some learning curve involved, although it seems straightforward.

The realism is there. You get vivid depictions of ships, planes, and islands. There are crew members milling about your ship while you blast away at the enemy. The rudders and ailerons move on your plane.

I haven't played multiplayer but I am concerned that we have to use Gamespy exclusively. Also, there's a third party service that keeps the game updated. Not thrilled about installing that either. We'll see how it goes.

Debunking the misconceptions

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 21 / 24
Date: May 09, 2007
Author: Amazon User

[...] I'm here to clear some things up.
It's your fault if it doesn't load. Your system must be capable of handling it. Read the required specs before buying. My computer is 2 1/2 years old and plays it just fine. I did put in an extra half gig of RAM and a $[...] (at the time) graphics card in it when I bought it. Still, it's 2 1/2 years old. Any "state of the art" computer should be able to handle it, if mine can. If you're still not sure, download the free multiplayer demo to try out your system's ability ro run it. I was unsure about mine, so that's what I did. My computer handled the demo just fine, with medium to high settings. I bought the game and have had some rare, minor stuttering but nothing more.
There's a profile you can enter to play all the levels, if you suck at the game. It's not too hard to figure out what it is but a Google search will dig it up for you, if you have no sense of the obvious.
The game is short. However, it's done well and you can ramp up the difficulty if you like. If you breeze through it on rookie, don't go thinking you've accomplished anything. There are also awards, in the form of virtual medals, to shoot for. Furthermore, the challenge missions will give nearly everyone but warfare strategy masterminds a hard time. It can be fun facing seemingly insurmountable odds. It can also be very frustrating. Sailing right into the heart of a carrier force, commanding the mighty Yamato, is a fun excercise. I only wish you could command some American Iowa Class battleships.
Using the main guns on capital ships is fun. I'm not into excessive micromanagement. If I was, I would have joined the Navy and had a go at this stuff firsthand. I am somewhat interested in the Pacific Theater of WWII as my father served in the Pacific just after WWII (in the Army Air Corps Engineers). As a child, I was fascinated by his stories of the aftermath wreckage he saw. It's nice to have a game based on the Pacific Theater that doesn't completely stink. If you're into micromanagement to the point that you wish to control everything, down to making sure every sailor has a fresh pair of underwear, don't bother with this game. If you like action games with a decent, but not overwhelming, dose of strategy, this game is for you. If you're remotely interested in both the Pacific Theater of WWII and video games, this is pretty much a must-buy. There really aren't many other good options.

Please answer this for me....

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: August 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Do you mind me asking at what age do you think a kid could get this and be able to play this?? Also, I've been trying to find and have not been able to find out if the graphics are gory (ie: blood, etc) or individual people getting hurt.

I have a six year old who LOVES u-boats and submarines and my husband has allowed him to play several games that unfortunately after I found out that it shows individual PEOPLE getting hurt, I had to do the Mom thing and take them away. What I'm torn about is that he is mentally IS capable to play advanced games, ie: his favorite is: Enigma Rising Tide (?)...he CAN play Command & Conquer but I have 'taken' that one away although his Dad lets him play when I'm not around.

I AM impressed with my son's ability to comprehend these games so I would like him to enjoy them but with also not exposing him to people getting blown up and such. Obviously, I KNOW and he knows that if you blow up a battleship, sub or an airplane that there are people theoretically in it but I don't want the graphics to show that for his age....

So...IS there a battleship, u-boat or say WWII game or something along those lines that have somewhat easy levels of strategy games that do not have graphics where it shows people getting hurt???

Thanks! And SORRY for posting this on a review area...I've read review after review without my questions being answered and don't know where else to look or ask...

Sweet but short!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 27, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Battle stations Midway is an absolute BLAST to play its amazing how they fused together 1st person shooter and 3rd person. But because of the skill it took to do this they could only produce a small amount of levels 11 to be exact. But after that you can hit the challenges which are special challenges in a specific region of the game. For example,there are 4 ship challenges, 3 plane challenges, and 3 submarine challenges. Then when you've owned the PC enough move on to the MULTIPLAYER which is pretty cool with many levels to choose from except some of the online players are from the demo so there is only one level they can play.

Submarine action worth the price.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 09, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game because it had submarine combat which is rare. The battleship and air combat is kind of lame, but the submarine combat is great. You have all aspects of submarine warfare, ie. sonar, periscope, air supply, forward and stern torpedoe tubes, etc

Battlestations Midway

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 25, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Battlestations Midway

I am, without a doubt, a WWII combat game addict! This little piece of work is not at all bad for the occasional battle fan, however; it takes more than a little getting used to in order to play it well!

I figured this more for a load and play fun game. Not so, with many different ships, planes, ground troops, etc. each area has to be learned from the ground up.

Fairly good graphics, cool water images, reasonable ship and plane rendering.

Over all, if you are willing to spend a fair amount of time learning the ins and outs, I'm sure you will enjoy this game.

Fun but over simplified

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 26 / 27
Date: February 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I was expecting a more open ended game not a scripted campaign. I would rather this game be a little more like the silent hunter game or like pacific storm in that there is a strategic mode and more open ended engagements. Also, the interfaces are over simplifed and using main guns on ships is very tacky, that interface really needs to be rethought. Dogfighting and bombing is fun though. The graphics are superb I just think they should have put more time into the user interfaces for the ships and subs, it seems to be more intended for kids and the xbox, the pc version really should have more to it.

Battlestations: Midway

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 8 / 13
Date: March 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game was not what I expected at all. I was expecting much easier gameplay. The idea that you have to complete preassigned missions to move on is not a very good one. If you cannot get beyond any mission, the rest of the game is useless because you will never experience completion. Get this game when it's cheap only!!

A Shooter, NOT A Stratedgy Game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

So you don't make the mistake I did, this game is a SHOOTER, NOT a stratedgy game. As a shooter it is fairly entertaining and the graphics and battle engines are good.

What I was hoping for (and what some of the product info I read said) was that it was partly a strategy game. This it is not. I was hoping for something on par with Avalon Hill's "Midway" board game (only for the PC) where you can setup the war in the Pacific using the same historical units and strengths. Sort of a "Medievel Total War" for the Pacific theatre of WW2.

I'm now going to try "Pacific Storm" and see how that will fare.

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