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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 14, 2011
    I heard we beat the aliens at the end of the movie by simply moving our ships after weve told them they missed us.
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    Posted: Feb 8th, 2012 at 1:20 pm
  • metalimi
    metalimi - Joined: Nov 9, 2005
    Nominated for tps?
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    Posted: Feb 8th, 2012 at 1:32 pm
  • WILLS_COOL_MODE
    WILLS_COOL_MODE - Joined: Oct 28, 2010
    I'm Ron Burgundy?
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    Posted: Feb 8th, 2012 at 3:04 pm
  • warmaster670
    warmaster670 - Joined: Jun 15, 2007
    60% of the time...it works, EVERY time.
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    Posted: Feb 9th, 2012 at 3:44 am
  • Bras
    Bras - Joined: Jul 16, 2008
    If Battlefield is a first-person shooter...

    Scrabble is real-time strategy?
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    Posted: Feb 8th, 2012 at 2:11 pm
  • OdiousLupous
    OdiousLupous - Joined: Jul 14, 2011
    Nah, gotta be turn based. If everyone started slapping down consonants and vowels itd be bedlam.
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    Posted: Feb 8th, 2012 at 2:49 pm
  • Bras
    Bras - Joined: Jul 16, 2008
    ATB

    Best and final offer.
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    Posted: Feb 8th, 2012 at 3:00 pm
  • sliverstorm
    sliverstorm - Joined: Jun 23, 2007
    Did Activision's press release really say, "you'll play a guy..."?
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    Posted: Feb 8th, 2012 at 3:32 pm
  • WILLS_COOL_MODE
    WILLS_COOL_MODE - Joined: Oct 28, 2010
    I imagine that's how their meetings go.

    "So you play as a guy."
    "I love it!"
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    Posted: Feb 8th, 2012 at 3:48 pm
  • Jessica_Vazquez
    Jessica_Vazquez - Joined: Sep 25, 2010
    Boooooooooooo..... that's the first thought that came into my head the first time I saw the trailer and I'm sticking to it.
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    Posted: Feb 8th, 2012 at 3:46 pm
  • OdiousLupous
    OdiousLupous - Joined: Jul 14, 2011
    They are making a CandyLand movie too, with Adam Sandler.
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    Posted: Feb 8th, 2012 at 4:14 pm
  • Falx
    Falx - Joined: Jul 13, 2011
    Oooooh, I hope they get Michael Bay to direct!!
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    Posted: Feb 8th, 2012 at 4:41 pm
  • Lien
    Lien - Joined: Feb 1, 2008
    Yo dog! i heard you like the game battleship...
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    Posted: Feb 8th, 2012 at 7:16 pm
  • Chunibrow
    Chunibrow - Joined: Mar 21, 2010
    I like how candy land and tiddlywinks were your examples of classic board games lol. How about monopoly, scrabble, or yahtee???
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    Posted: Feb 8th, 2012 at 10:28 pm
  • Chunibrow
    Chunibrow - Joined: Mar 21, 2010
    Yahtee is of course saying the name Yahtzee when you have no teeth
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    Posted: Feb 8th, 2012 at 10:30 pm
  • Masterwabbit
    Masterwabbit - Joined: Mar 15, 2009
    What tells me Double Helix Games isn't going to be around much longer after this game releases?
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    Posted: Feb 8th, 2012 at 11:04 pm
  • metalimi
    metalimi - Joined: Nov 9, 2005
    Shit. We lost the little PT boat.
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    Posted: Feb 9th, 2012 at 10:00 am

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