The Game
"You sank my battleship!" Ah, the sounds of childhood Saturday afternoons and a really memorable ad campaign.
Dense blue plastic, knobby little red and white pieces (which the dog always tried to eat), and really strategic
guesswork. Now that was fun.
Rather than simply relying on nostalgia to sell games, Hasbro develops, tweaks, adds, and replots the game until
you have not only the standard Battleship, but also World Domination mode, air warfare, naval warfare, helicopters
to fly, islands to defend, oil rigs to protect, and enemy submarines to torpedo. Some great visuals accompany an
intuitive interface and suddenly the game of childhood afternoons becomes the one of I-really-should-be-working
adult afternoons.
The Classic game, though, serves as training for the meat of this modern Battleship - which is a simple real-time
war game. You construct fleets and send them out to accomplish a particular goal, and you must stop your
opponent from doing the same. It works pretty much like the Classic game (aim and fire) but it's in real-time
(meaning you don't take turns). There are several variations on this theme, but it's all pretty much a super-vamped
version of the classic board game.
Hasbro Interactive's Battleship hits with depth and strategy (and a cool opening sequence).
Note: My compatibility CD does not alter the retail game or bypass copy protection. It allows the original media to
install and run correctly on any recent version of Windows.
