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The Board Game Battleship Is Now A Movie AND A Video Game

Posted on Wednesday, February 8 @ 13:15:05 Eastern by Keri_Honea
Battleship is probably one of the most classic board games in existence. It ranks right up there with CandyLand and Tiddlywinks (which I know isn't a board game, just let it go). The game has technologically evolved like crazy over the years, but it's basically the same: players try to guess where their opponents had placed their ships. So how this is going to turn into an action movie is beyond me, but I've seen crazier ideas pan out.

Of course, we can't have a movie announcement without a corresponding video game. That would just be silly. And guess who is at the helm? It's Activision! And they're turning the video game into a first-person shooter!

Now I'm really scratching my head. 

Double Helix Games is behind the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of the game, while Studio Magic Pockets is in charge of versions for the 3DS, Wii, and DS. Battleship: The Game is a hybrid of strategy and first-person shooter gameplay...with aliens. Seriously.

From Activision's press release:

Inspired by the film's exciting action and stunning backdrop, the game is next-gen naval warfare that thrusts players into the middle of humanity's last stand against an unfamiliar menace. You'll play a guy named Cole Mathis as he fights off "aquatic-based extraterrestrial peril" in the Hawaiian islands.


So instead of sinking battleships in Battleship, we're shooting aliens. How is this really a Battleship game? Since the aliens are "aquatic-based," I assume we won't be sinking their ships. 

At least we aren't shooting zombies or sinking zombie ships. Small victory.

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  • OdiousLupous
    OdiousLupous

    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Feb 8th, 2012 at 1:20 pm
    I heard we beat the aliens at the end of the movie by simply moving our ships after weve told them they missed us.
  • metalimi
    metalimi

    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Feb 8th, 2012 at 1:32 pm
    Nominated for tps?
  • WILLS_COOL_MODE
    WILLS_COOL_MODE

    Joined: Oct 2010
    Posted: Feb 8th, 2012 at 3:04 pm
    I'm Ron Burgundy?
  • warmaster670
    warmaster670

    Joined: Jun 2007
    Posted: Feb 9th, 2012 at 3:44 am
    60% of the time...it works, EVERY time.
  • Bras
    Bras

    Joined: Jul 2008
    Posted: Feb 8th, 2012 at 2:11 pm
    If Battlefield is a first-person shooter...

    Scrabble is real-time strategy?
  • OdiousLupous
    OdiousLupous

    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Feb 8th, 2012 at 2:49 pm
    Nah, gotta be turn based. If everyone started slapping down consonants and vowels itd be bedlam.
  • Bras
    Bras

    Joined: Jul 2008
    Posted: Feb 8th, 2012 at 3:00 pm
    ATB

    Best and final offer.
  • sliverstorm
    sliverstorm

    Joined: Jun 2007
    Posted: Feb 8th, 2012 at 3:32 pm
    Did Activision's press release really say, "you'll play a guy..."?
  • WILLS_COOL_MODE
    WILLS_COOL_MODE

    Joined: Oct 2010
    Posted: Feb 8th, 2012 at 3:48 pm
    I imagine that's how their meetings go.

    "So you play as a guy."
    "I love it!"
  • Jessica_Vazquez
    Jessica_Vazquez

    Joined: Sep 2010
    Posted: Feb 8th, 2012 at 3:46 pm
    Boooooooooooo..... that's the first thought that came into my head the first time I saw the trailer and I'm sticking to it.
  • OdiousLupous
    OdiousLupous

    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Feb 8th, 2012 at 4:14 pm
    They are making a CandyLand movie too, with Adam Sandler.
  • Falx
    Falx

    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Feb 8th, 2012 at 4:41 pm
    Oooooh, I hope they get Michael Bay to direct!!
  • Lien
    Lien

    Joined: Feb 2008
    Posted: Feb 8th, 2012 at 7:16 pm
    Yo dog! i heard you like the game battleship...
  • Chunibrow
    Chunibrow

    Joined: Mar 2010
    Posted: Feb 8th, 2012 at 10:28 pm
    I like how candy land and tiddlywinks were your examples of classic board games lol. How about monopoly, scrabble, or yahtee???
  • Chunibrow
    Chunibrow

    Joined: Mar 2010
    Posted: Feb 8th, 2012 at 10:30 pm
    Yahtee is of course saying the name Yahtzee when you have no teeth
  • Masterwabbit
    Masterwabbit

    Joined: Mar 2009
    Posted: Feb 8th, 2012 at 11:04 pm
    What tells me Double Helix Games isn't going to be around much longer after this game releases?
  • metalimi
    metalimi

    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Feb 9th, 2012 at 10:00 am
    Shit. We lost the little PT boat.

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