I mean, it's a really polished large scale war game with excellent detailed stylised visuals and presentation, many units on screen, great explosions, many different land, sea and air vehicles, you can command or take direct control of any unit in the game with mostly intuitive controls, and it's got a compelling single player story mode and more than fuctional online versus and cooperative playability. Why is it as if it doesn't exist? I'm loving it right now. I think it's as much of a showcase for the Wii as the likes of Super Mario Galaxy, Mario Kart Wii and Metroid Prime 3. I hope a sequel or spirticual successor will be made at some point. Random videos, this guy's recorded some great stuff (use the HQ mode of course), yet for some reason it's really hard to find good quality videos on websites such as GT and similar places...
Battalion Wars 2
Game » consists of 4 releases. Released Oct 29, 2007
Battalion Wars 2 is a pseudo-RTS game developed for the Nintendo Wii in which players assume control over various land, sea, and air-based units.
Is it just me or is this game waaaaaay underrated?
Well, even for those who didn't like its style so much, it should be memorable for all the things it does so well. The engine is really great and on par with stuff you'd expect Factor 5 to come up with imo. Large yet detailed maps, great vehicle behaviour, lots of things happening, great effects, all the good stuff. People still act like the Wii can barely do Half-Life level stuff when it comes to such action titles when this low profile game alone proves it could easily get its very own and very competent Battlefield or Gears style game, if anyone actually gave it a shot (and no, they don't have to be all mature to have those themes and gameplay, as this game proves). Heck, this game's pretty much that already, but with the focus on arcade style commanding rather than shooting stuff up with only a single troop. Which is probably why most people don't like it too much, they'd prefer a straightforward shooter with awesome vehicles and tons of action. I'd hit that too, but I think the game's great as it is too.
It does have online multi player AJ. Co-op and vs. But I guess as I said the problem is people expected a FPS type game like Battlefield, when this is geared more to commanding units around. So, the multi player is commander + commander vs ai or commander vs commander. You don't have 32 or more people running about, though the numbers of units on screen are quite a few, but they're AI (so, actually heavier on the CPU than players would be). But yes, the engine is great and should be used for a shooter style game too.
And Diamond, visually, anything the Wii can do can be done better on other systems. If you have a corridor shooter with better graphics than BWii on the Wii thanks to the limited environments, you can also have a corridor shooter on the 360 that looks better than Bad Company 2 instead. So, no Wii games of any kind should be made? Lol. That is not the type of comment I was responding to when I said it does things people say the Wii couldn't do (as opposed to "shouldn't do" heh).
This looks and plays good and without worse production values than something like Battlefield Heroes which is also intended for a casual audience, yet tons of people here enjoy or wish they were in its beta. But yeah, it's a shooter as opposed to a strategy (even if light hearted) title with shooter elements, so instantly it's more appealing. Yet, shooters are plenty, but this game has a unique feel no other title on any system offers imo. At least from what I've seen. Just saying.
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