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Battlestations: Midway
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Overall Critic Score:2.9559
Battlestations: Midway Critic Reviews
The oxygen tank is empty. The torpedo tubes are empty. An enemy destroyer is hunting my last submarine, dropping depth charges that explode dangerously close to the hull, which is already taking slow and steady pressure damage -- the price the sub had to...read the complete Battlestations: Midway review at IGN
Battlestations: Midway is a game that I had been looking forward to months in advance of its release. A next-gen game of naval warfare and air combat has been long overdue for console players. I had suspected that since Eidos was taking a very broad...read the complete Battlestations: Midway review at Planet Xbox 360
Battlestations Midway is a WWII RTS/Strategy game released by Eidos. Although it lies pretty heavy on the action strategy side of things there is still some standard micromanaging to be done. This game touches upon a genre that is not well represented on...read the complete Battlestations: Midway review at Da GameBoyz
BM is certainly not a standard WWII game and is most definitely not to be classed as yet another flying simulator based game. Whilst yes, you can fly planes in the game… you actually have control from over sixty war machines, these include all manner...read the complete Battlestations: Midway review at Totally360
For as long as the genre has existed, the fantasy of an RTS where you can swoop in to command an individual or unit directly has been eagerly discussed by fans from across the world. Eidos is the latest publisher to have a stab at this hybrid of strategy...read the complete Battlestations: Midway review at Pro-G
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Iwo Jima lay before the fleet of American destroyers like an ancient South American temple that had been concealed by a sea of tropical green. In the case of Iwo Jima, however, the sight of the island surrounded by the waters of the Pacific made it seem...read the complete Battlestations: Midway review at GameZone
A sense of power is something many games give the player. Pull the trigger on the joypad and it shivers in your hand as you unleash an M60 machine gun on some deserving terrorists. But compared to the hardware offered in Battlestations Midway these are...read the complete Battlestations: Midway review at Boomtown
As an Xbox 360 owner, you're probably pretty happy with the selection of genres available on Microsoft's svelte white console. There are plenty of shooters, from third-person actioners like Gears of War to first-person affairs like Rainbow Six Vegas....read the complete Battlestations: Midway review at TeamXBOX
The year is 1941, the place: the increasingly troubled Pacific region. The US has remained blissfully unaffected by the twists of World War II, presently entering a pivotal phase across the world in Europe, but everything is about to change. This is...read the complete Battlestations: Midway review at Ferrago
Battlestations: Midway strikes just the right balance between action and strategy to create a game that's as unique as it is enjoyable....read the complete Battlestations: Midway review at GameSpot
Playing Battlestations: Midway is fairly reminiscent of Battlefield 1942, except from a third-person perspective, without the on-foot elements and with a more strategic and slow-paced style of game. Taking command of everything from an aircraft carrier...read the complete Battlestations: Midway review at GamerNode
Battlestations: Midways sets you up in and around Pacific Ocean participating in many key battles of the second Great War. Starting you off in Oahu, Hawaii, You will take part in defending Pearl Harbor from the Japanese surprise attack. As the game...read the complete Battlestations: Midway review at Extreme Gamer
Battlestations: Midway is an odd blend of action and real-time strategy that ultimately falls a bit flat. With lackluster visuals, odd controls, and a constant focus on naval battles this one may have trouble finding an audience. With a short 4-5 hour...read the complete Battlestations: Midway review at GameBrink
Pearl Harbour was without a doubt a terrible, painful wound inflicted on an unsuspecting America, and indeed the World at large. And that was just the film! Ha ha ha! Ahem. Sorry. Yes, readers, crappy puns at the expense of M. Bay's woeful cinematic...read the complete Battlestations: Midway review at Gamers Europe
Yes, yes, I know what you’re thinking: I have been Call Of Dutied and Medal of Honored to death, the last thing I need to play is another World War II game. However the folks at Eidos beg to differ and have released Battlestations: Midway for your...read the complete Battlestations: Midway review at GameShark
The opening tutorials are fairly lengthy, but you’ll need to pay attention, and possibly even revisit some of them, due to the complexity of the controls. Opening missions see you focusing on individual ships, with small variety of weapons and tactics,...read the complete Battlestations: Midway review at Strategy Informer
Battlestations: Midway takes players through the WWII's battle for the Pacific between the United States and Japan. Players immediately take an active role in most of the major naval battles of the Pacific Theater of War, from the opening shots of Pearl...read the complete Battlestations: Midway review at GameSpy
I am tired of World War II games! Yes, I said it! I mean really, at this point I feel like I could sit down and take a test on WWII and pass with flying colors. Each and every game that has come out as of late has showed a different part of the war, not...read the complete Battlestations: Midway review at ZTGameDomain
Battlestations: Midway is one of those games that’s pretty hard to categorize. It’s not a straight up RTS, and it’s not a simple action game. Rather, it incorporates elements of both of those genres. The end result is a title that features glimpses...read the complete Battlestations: Midway review at Lawrence
Battlestations: Midway has been in development almost as long as America was involved in World War II. Originally created by Mithis Entertainment as an Xbox title, the dev house closed down before the game was actually completed. Rather than let this...read the complete Battlestations: Midway review at 1UP
Nearly two years after it was first supposed to be released on Xbox, PlayStation2, and the defunct portable platform Gizmondo, Eidos' Battlestations: Midway finally makes its appearance - albeit dropping all three systems along the way. Now setting sail...read the complete Battlestations: Midway review at TotalVideoGames
World War II. When gamers hear this these days they tend to run a million miles because over the last decade we've had enough World War II games to fill a retail store. However there is always room for innovation in an old idea and that is exactly what...read the complete Battlestations: Midway review at 3D Avenue
Calling it “the Pacific theater” always seems somewhat disrespectful. Yet for Battlestations: Midway, the name is all too appropriate. Here, the Second World War really is the greatest show on earth.
At its best, the game offers a string of...read the complete Battlestations: Midway review at Games Radar
Battlestations: Midway is an intriguing and unique blend of strategy and action that challenges gamers with both directing the strategic course of a series of sea-based battles while simultaneously participating in the conflicts....read the complete Battlestations: Midway review at GamePro
Having a different point of view can alter an experience drastically, and this becomes evident in Eidos' Battlestations: Midway. Engaging in battle with a fighter plane is obviously different when the same battle is fought from a warship. This has...read the complete Battlestations: Midway review at Cheat Code Central
Along with the promised air and sea combat, Battlestations attempts to use a dramatic story to transition from one battle to the next via cutscenes before and after missions. You’ll be taking on the persona of Henry Walker, a roguish naval officer who...read the complete Battlestations: Midway review at Amped IGO
I know what you must be thinking. "Not World War II … again." It seems that in recent years, the Second World War has become the most reused backdrop for video games. From large epic war battles and commando raids to controlling individual soldiers as...read the complete Battlestations: Midway review at Worth Playing
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