Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9341 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Nintendo
• Model: 45496962999
• Released on: 2005-12-09
• Rating: To Be Announced
• ESRB Rating: Teen
• Platform: GameCube
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .75" h x 5.25" w x 7.50" l, .25 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
Battalion Wars blazes onto Nintendo GameCube with a platoon of real-time strategy (RTS) action. Whether players are hoofing it across the plains as a lone infantryman or commanding an entire platoon from atop an armored tank, the challenge is real and the mission is critical. There has never been a real-time strategy title like this before.

Customer Reviews

This Rocks!!!
This game is brilliant! It takes a while to get used to the controls, but it's worth it. Some of the later levels are quite hard but as they say practice makes perfect. The bonus levels are also really good as you get to play as your allies and enemies. If you love the Advance Wars series or like a bit of strategy in your games this is for you!

WOW!!
I Love this game!!! I was blown away right from the start, and It's worth every penny! The Only Problem is the way you control the jets and the gunships, but you get used to it. this is definetly a game of 2005. Not quite ready for the next smash hit though! (Zelda: The Twilight Princess)

Not quite Advanced enough
Couldn't wait to play this game after hearing about it almost a year ago. Being such a fan of Advanced Wars on the Gameboy (and now DS), taking command of little tanks and soldiers was a great prospect. Then the news was that a different developer would be taking it on therefore a slight change in title name and brought both public and personal doubt whether they could deliver.
Comparing the 2 games, you'll be hard to find any similarity. Presentation, characters and gameplay are totally different. I'm guessing the Gameboy Advance War developers wanted to distance themselves away from this as much as possible so a complete new look is used in Battalion. Still the novelty to play it was there and supported by the magazine reviews, I bought this a week ago. Therefore this review is based on about 6 playing hours. If you've played GBA Advanced Wars before then you'll be familiar with the type of infantry, tanks and other military pieces available to you. Controls get a little getting used to with all buttons having a purpose. The learning curve is a little challenging and the missions could do with a tiny bit more direction of where the player should go next. Also I found the control of the vehicles frustrating for awhile using the left direction stick which changed the speed and direction the vehicle as well as the camera angle. It took a few moments of swearing and re-tries to get past that level! As far as strategy goes I’m still waiting for the depth offered by Advanced Wars but using the map option to scan ahead of the battle field you can plan your attack. Even if you fail, there’s a certain amount of addictiveness to retry after you’ve been killed. The animation of the soldiers and vehicles are great and reminded me of Rayman bouncing along when running. Music and sound is okay with some nice vocal comments from your troops. Background graphics are good as well, suiting the bouncy Rayman feel. So overall, if you ignore the fact it’s a different game from the handheld version and persist through the control frustration you have another classic for the Gamecube.