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Epicurus.com - Battalion Wars
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List Price: $49.99
Our Price: $12.49
Your Save: $ 37.50 ( 75% )
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: Nintendo
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Average Customer Rating:  
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Amazon Maximum Age: 20
Amazon Minimum Age: 144
Batteries Included: 0
Binding: Video Game
Brand: Nintendo
EAN: 0045496962999
ESRB Age Rating: Teen
Feature: Command forces in the heat of battle, but beware -- clever enemy AI will adapt to every move
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Nintendo
Manufacturer: Nintendo
Model: 45496962999
Platform: GameCube
Publisher: Nintendo
Release Date: 2005-09-20
Studio: Nintendo
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Features
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Command forces in the heat of battle, but beware -- clever enemy AI will adapt to every move
Hop behind the wheel of multiple attack vehicles - Pilot jeeps, tanks, helicopters, airborne gunships, fighter jets, transport vehicles and more
Take the fight to foes with a massive arsenal of weapons such as rifles, bazookas, flamethrowers, machine guns, mortars, rocket launchers and many others
Countries will rise or fall based on players' tactics, and guiding troops has never been easier. Want to station forces on a ridge? Send a scout team to spy on the enemy? Charge headlong into the breach? Battalion Wars lets players do it all at the touch o
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Editorial Reviews:
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Battalion Wars takes the popular turn-based startegy game, Advance Wars, and brings it to your GameCube. In this fast-paced, 3D, real-time combat game, it's the end of the 21st century and a global conflict has erupted between two superpowers. Their armies are at a standstill, weakened from years of constant battle -- when a despotic warlord makes his move. Weakened and frightened, the two largest superpowers call a truce and unite to face a new threat to them both. That's where you come in. You're an experienced commander leading men of both armies into battle. Can your small force use pluck and guile to overcome the forces of darkness, or will both nations fall under the boot heels of a madman?
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Best game ever
Comment: 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.
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Fun for a little while...
Comment: 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.
Customer Rating:
Summary: I Love This Game
Comment: 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.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Battalion Wars
Comment: 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.
Customer Rating:
Summary: I HAVE 1 GAME FOR GAMECUBE. THIS IS IT
Comment:
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
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