Battlestations: Midway £2 (18 Dec Only)

Jsbeer · 18 Dec 2010 at 01:19

A nice action/RTS game similar to the old Carrier Command, whose only real minus was its relatively short SP campaign. But for 2 quid it is amazing value for money:

http://www.greenmangaming.com/games/battlestations-midway/

Metacritic scores here:

http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/battlestations-midway

Oh, and when you are done you can trade it in for a pound against future purchases, making this effectively a one quid purchase

LOL - for a laugh I just tried to trade in my Tomb Legends Anniversary (which I just paid a pound for yesterday) and it is offering me 7 quid off....

Dist · 18 Dec 2010 at 01:28

Just had a quick look at this and it seems like it can be a fun game, but is there much in the way of multiplayer action when the sequel battlestations pacific is out? wouldn't the vast majority who play these games be playing the latest one and so the older ones will lack servers? or is this not the case?

Jsbeer · 18 Dec 2010 at 01:33

Dist said:
Just had a quick look at this and it seems like it can be a fun game, but is there much in the way of multiplayer action when the sequel battlestations pacific is out? wouldn't the vast majority who play these games be playing the latest one and so the older ones will lack servers? or is this not the case?

Unfortunately, this is likely to be the case. I would only advise people to get it for the good (but fairly short) single player content.

Note that there is a good chance there will be a deal on Battlestation Pacific in the Steam Xmas Sale.

chrismscotland · 18 Dec 2010 at 09:01

Lol, just paid £5 for this on Wednesday, Doh!

physichull · 18 Dec 2010 at 09:03

SP is very good and I could never complete that submarine mission to sink the american aircraft carrier, that was solid!

nitram100 · 18 Dec 2010 at 09:34

I play the multiplayer on this a few times each week, takes a few minutes to get a game going but it is very fun once it does!

eyetrip · 18 Dec 2010 at 10:13

Just bought, but should have read about their delivery method first. Dunno why but made the assumption it was a steam key, but it wants me to download some capsule thingy.

Can I remove it after downlodaing game? Just don't want to clog up my pc with hundreds of little apps.

FirebarUK · 18 Dec 2010 at 12:21

I found Pacific to be a complete pain. Kamikazee's were way too overpowered and ruined the multiplayer imo. Multiplayer on Midway was great

Dave85 · 18 Dec 2010 at 12:41

So it doesn't activate on steam

Jsbeer · 18 Dec 2010 at 19:01

DAvE18 said:
So it doesn't activate on steam

No, this game (unlike Alien versus Predator which was on sale earlier isn't Steam activated). However, I find their download client 'Capsule' to be pretty straightforward.