Analysis: How BAD Is Battleship The Movie The Game Really?

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Contents Of This Video
00:00 Intro & Why An FPS?
01:18 Boom Slingers
02:07 Graphics & Bad Optimization
04:20 Story?
05:54 Gameplay Analysis
07:50 Battleship Gameplay Analysis
08:47 Surprisingly Decent Guns
10:15 Enemies
11:35 Disappointing Final Boss
12:06 Final Opinions+Cod Won?

[@Jarekthegamingdragon]

Check out my link if you want to try Boom Slingers for free! mtchm.de/ysy6o Big thanks to every one that joined me while I streamed this game. It was far more entertaining to talk to familiar viewers than to actually play the game lol. Come follow my twitch if you want to hang out in the future! www.twitch.tv/jarek4gamingdragon EDIT: People are accusing me of copying oboeshoesgames. Battleship is a notable flop and a bad game. That's quite literally exactly the style of content I've been making on this channel for years before oboeshoe came around. In fact, I made videos of Haze, Dark Sector, Timeshift, Singularity, Homefront, Frontlines Fuel Of War, Syndicate, etc etc years before he did. People covering the same games does not mean they're copying each other, that's just literally how games work. I didn't even know who he was until I was already done making this video, even adding in a quick post video edit at 7:28.

[@theepicthree123]

Aye you featured my comment about playing battleship that’s cool Lol

[@MrFreefonix420]

I swear you get accused of copying all the time even when you first started. Just ignore them

[@IIUzzymanII]

I got accused of farting at the same time as Osama Bin Laden so I must be a terrorist now. People are so fragile dude I’d pay it no mind.

[@afd19850]

Ignore the haters! I love you and Oboe as you are wildly different in your presenting style and you also cover retro FPS. I would like a video on your take on FPS market right now. For Me, Vandguard is trash, BF2042 is trash and Halo has a good campaign. However retro FPS’ are thriving!

[@TJshine1]

I mean lets be honest there was not much of a story in the movie either. It really was an awful board game to movie to game translation. Maybe that is the real problem. They tried to make a garbage movie off of an irrelevant board game while being fully ready to milk that cow with a video game that has nothing to do with the original board game. (BOARD GAME > VIDEO GAME)ception.

[@matteodelapaz1698]

You know a game is special when it’s called “The Movie The Game”

[@ROBOHOLIC1]

Spaceballs: The Movie, The Merchandise

[@spiderjerusalem100]

Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie.

[@Gameprojordan]

Battleship: The US Navy Recruitment Ad: The Movie: The Game

[@kjriwoutube]

like i wana be the guy the movie the game LOL

[@devindalton4688]

@@spiderjerusalem100 At least that one's actually good

[@b8s_art]

This whole IP reminds me of the Simpsons episode where the Navy recruiter gets Bart and crew to start a boy band that is brainwashing the youths to enlist via the ultra catchy song Yvanehtnioj 😎🙌

[@scroogemccuck985]

🎵”You’re love is more deadly than Saddaaaam”🎵

[@cpl.barbarusc4814]

Maybe it was done by LT Smash unoffically.

[@oz_jones]

@@scroogemccuck985 *Your

[@stansmith2399]

Otto you're being brainwashed!

[@afd19850]

“Join the Navy…” 😂

[@johnbakker2869]

the Wii version of the battleship movie game was a top down real time strategy game. it was pretty fun and got somewhat challenging at times.

[@eastneetfleet9488]

This! I was worried that nobody remembered there was a Wii version that was actually about Battleship’s.

[@tankingwithtigers136]

I had this checked out of my local library for like a month. It was epic.

[@kostakatsoulis2922]

Yeah I have it, never got past the 3rd level though... I should go back and play it!

[@HonduranMegatron]

That moment when the Wii version of a video game based on a popular franchise is more faithful to said popular franchise than the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions

[@louisbeerreviews8964]

@@HonduranMegatron wrong

[@kruterchraft454]

This looks like the type of game, that you'd see a movie-character play in the background.

[@Langtw]

It's so hard to quantify what that means exactly, but I know exactly what it means.

[@tommcevoy4872]

Reminds me of that kid at the safehouse in John Wick

[@Bram25]

The funny thing GTA is now one of those 😂

[@Pokanika]

Battleship the Movie the Game is one of the strangest games I've seen. You'd think they'd make a battleship strategy game based on the board game, but no. A full team of professionals, all agreed and said, “Yeah, let's make Battleship into an FPS.”

[@0lionheart]

*A full team of suits I've been in game dev a while, trust me we don't get a say a lot of the time :/ you get your bit to make and the spec to make it to, the rest is decided by people vastly out of touch

[@Dirvinator]

I remember hiring this game specifically to get the "easy" platinum trophy on PS3. It was such a slog but the final mission was killer. Surviving waves of enemies, running out of ammo just hoping that my """strategic battleship placement""" would randomly generate me a victory.

[@Gameprojordan]

Reminds me of the Naruto game for the 360 and the only reason people played it was because you can get 1000 gamerscore within 10 mins of starting it.

[@Gameprojordan]

@@Rainbow-Dash oh right my bad, got them mixed up lol

[@SeviathTheHumanDrago]

@Rocky Montana Garcia mayne It's telling the story of an anime that spanned almost 20 years. That's one reason lol. I actually enjoy long rpg games I can grind. I love playing final fantasy and overlevelling for the whole game.

[@SeviathTheHumanDrago]

@Rocky Montana Garcia mayne OH that would be awesome. Like the old budokai tenkaiichi for GameCube?

[@hieunguyenrileygekko]

Double Helix Games, the developer of this game is also makes Silent Hill: Homecoming, Green Lantern and GI Joe: Rise of The Cobra when they finally made actually good games like Killer Instinct and Strider, Amazon bought them MMO New World is their latest game

[@titlasagna2172]

Unpopular opinion but i likes Silent Hill Homecoming

[@hieunguyenrileygekko]

@@titlasagna2172 well you had a good time with it i play action games all the time and the combat of this game is beyond painful for me

[@titlasagna2172]

@@hieunguyenrileygekko then you’ll hate the combat of every silent hill game ever made

[@hieunguyenrileygekko]

@@titlasagna2172 no, im fine with most of them, even downpour like RE, you can ignore most of enemies, its survival horror, they dont encourage combat to save the resources but Homecoming forces player to fight, you cant outrun most of them

[@hieunguyenrileygekko]

@@titlasagna2172 thats why if a gameplay aspect like combat is the main focus, atleast make it decent

[@ScarletCharlotte]

This game was my first ever Playstation Platinum Trophy. £2 used copy off Amazon. Easy trophies and I had a fun afternoon with it. So I remember it fondly.

[@varsityreviews707]

Might just get it for that

[@REfan2002]

Oh there's a story, Jarek. It runs concurrently with the movie. And that's it. Also, we shouldn't give Double Helix the boots, they did redeem themselves with Killer Instinct 3.

[@monkaWGiga]

They went from this straight to KI3 and then Strider and it's such an incredible improvement it's ridiculous.

[@REfan2002]

@@monkaWGiga It's true, we should not give them shit. They were given a set amount of time to make this game and they had to do it. Then when Capcom and Microsoft said, Hey want to make a game were we give you the time needed for development! Well not Capcom and Microsoft at the same time but you get what I mean.

[@PhoenixT70]

6:23 This was the most distracting issue for me. A Nimitz-class CVN draws 37 feet of water. That carrier is lucky if she has five feet below her keel, there are _fishing boats_ that would have trouble where she is in that shot.

[@GregFurey98]

I remember when Angry Joe reviewed this game ages ago. It's definitely a product of its time. Good review, as always.

[@MetalJT24]

4 HOURS!!!!!!

[@TheMC1102]

Could you analyse the Chronicles of Riddick games?

[@matteodelapaz1698]

Or Sin since this was the game before Half-life and Oboe did a video on the episodic game

[@scarecrow2097]

Performance was a lot better on ps3, the game was a solid "meh" really. It actually has concept art and it seems they had more maps and such planned for it that got cut, even an AUG rifle. If the battleship control gimmick was expanded more it might be better.

[@EggBlunt]

My ass it was better on PS3

[@scarecrow2097]

@@EggBlunt idk what you ever did to your ps3 then or in what condition the disc was but I literally never had a single crash or lags like in the video while playing and finished the game 2 times.

[@SianaGearz]

Looks like a game by a competent studio that had to cramp the whole production into like 4 months; or whatever the timeline was way too tight for the studio capacity.

[@bobdeclor528]

what sucks is that this game has some good ideas. an fps with some battleship elements sounds pretty fun and actually a change of pace from other shooters. just a crappy execution

[@davidmoyer1168]

"How does a game based on the movie have no story" Well, I think it's probably because that movie has no story too... Like I saw it when I was younger and I think it was just action sequences and I think maybe a cameo from Obama.(I might be thinking of a scene of another generic action movie though)

[@coastercordell2172]

Yes Obama had a small cameo just to say some vague things about staying safe from the aliens (or something like that) and since he was the president at the time, why not just have him play the president. Also, there was just enough plot for it to be considered a movie. Even the Nostalgia Critic made a review of it.

[@chairmanlmao4482]

Man I definitely don't miss that era around 2010-2013 when the market was flooded with generic 5 hour long Call of Duty-esque modern military shooters, made by some second rate dev studio and published by either Activision or THQ. Oh that was also the era of Kinect and the whole motion controls gimmick nobody gave a shit about, lol. God damn what an awful time for gaming

[@blankmoment2]

well it's doesnt get better now with lootbox and everything everywhere.

[@chairmanlmao4482]

@@blankmoment2 Oh yeah I definitely agree mate. Gaming is pretty much the worst its ever been. I remember in like the late 2000s you would have several amazing games release each year. Now we are lucky to get a single game in a year that is actually half decent.

[@blankmoment2]

@@chairmanlmao4482 it's strange how we used to dream about the graphic and see gameplay as secondary thing but now is totally the opposite.

[@dumbguy6843]

Lol. It was the golden era

[@Jnensrevenge]

I'm ALMOST starting to miss movie license games. Almost.

[@captiankirkgames4385]

I haven’t played a movie based game since GameCubedays and end of it and gameboy advanced

[@asherbones761]

"Oh no, whatever shall I do with this *SHOTGUN?*" Doom 3 and F.E.A.R. in a nutshell

[@fearlesswee5036]

Seeing you tackle all these sci-fi FPS movie tie-in games now makes me want to see you tackle the 2005 starship troopers FPS game. I've actually recently been replaying it and I found it surprisingly fun and enjoyable, despite the clear low budget and repetitiveness in some missions. There's a lot of missions that really encapsulate what you'd want from a starship troopers game; you and an army of troopers defending an outpost/base against an army of bugs that outnumber you 100 to 1. But then there's these annoyingly lame missions where you follow a linear path through some empty facility and just fight the odd handful of bugs and these annoying little swarms of hopping mini plasma bugs that are dead silent, sneak up on your ass, and instantly vaporize you with a burst of plasma before you can even realize wtf happened. If you want I can also help get you a copy that has the widescreen patch and a couple other fixes.

[@lancefox8232]

I remember renting this from Blockbuster beating it in one sitting and returning it the same day. They were kind enough to give me another game in exchange.

[@SnakeEater776]

I remember back in the 360 era this was one of my favourite games. I lost this disk ages ago so not sure how I would find it now but if you asked me a while back I would have said it was top tier (although the ship battles were definitely better in my head than gameplay wise)

[@coastercordell2172]

It was also released on the Wii

[@REfan2002]

It seems the DS version is using the board game more.

[@therealpizzagirl]

Seeing the white xbox 360 makes me so nostalgic. Awesome video!

[@c410121]

Thanks Jarek 😌 Personally i do still find some charm in these But your reactions are pretty much what i was expecting 😂 The fact that you actually took time to review these is awesome 🔥 Cant wait to see whats next!

[@gabrielbarros4728]

Jarek i really like your reviews and how always cover a rare game that is mostly unknown. It would be nice if you did a vídeo of Terminator Salvation (i think is for xbox 360 and ps3).

[@StephonDodd]

Jerek you always bring the A+ content for us and we love it! ❤️

[@monkaWGiga]

Man Double Helix made a bunch of junk and then somehow created the amazing Killer Instinct for Xbox one and great Strider 2014, I still don't understand how they had such a spike in quality. Sadly now they're absorbed into Amazon games. Game looks pretty bad but I can at least say the whole Strategy thing sounds like it could be cool if done better.

[@theblobconsumes4859]

Front Mission Evolved can be pretty fun, actually. That game's main problems were its music and uninteresting level design, as the core combat felt great, even on-foot combat was perfectly fine for running and gunning.

[@father042]

Angry Joe's review of this was hilarious

[@DJWhiteWolfX]

idk why but ive been binge watching all of his game reviews xD, great vids.

[@RaunchyRalph161]

Wow, Time Splitters 2 music. Nice little memory unlock there.

[@joannedingivan412]

First btw all of you are great you do be legendary like i just thought you needed the encouragement

[@weirdeurasianboy8091]

0:06 Bro what happened to my pfp lmaoooo 😂😭 Thanks for including me though. I appreciate it ✌️

[@Hrajnoga]

Very satisfactory review as always 😁 . Sometime please look at Boiling Point: Road to Hell or it's sequels

[@owlwaifu4949]

Yknow this review is just helping me feel alot better after a night of just pure suffering

[@slender169101]

I remember this game being way better for some reason, I liked the switch from first person shooter to battleship, but now that I've played more games over the years it's just sad now. I'd still recommend the history channal first person shooters such as battle for the Pacific, civil war secret missions

[@meisterdestoasts1574]

the intro sound 🥰

[@jonathanlee726]

I laughed out loud at the use of Spunkgargleweewee. Well played. 10:24

[@ric9573]

You should make a Video on Perfect Dark Zero for the Xbox 360, I remember having some fun with the game.

[@TheGeem1]

I was always fascinated by these old shooters everyone has forgotten about like blacksite for example

[@patrickz.3344]

The shotgun reminds me of the Spas-12 from 2006 game Black

[@girlwithgreenhairpfp]

Holy shit. I have not seen your face in years. Like I was sitting here trying to figure out what was so familiar about you, like "This dude sounds so familiar" and "Why do I feel like I've seen this guy before." Your name just looked familiar and I just couldn't put my finger on it. Then I saw the dragon. And everything clicked in and I was like "Holy shit its the dude who did airsoft review videos back in the day." You've probably gotten this like 50 times but my mind is blown that you're still around doing stuff and I'm happy you're not dead. Today has been a mind fuck for me.

[@2Poor4UserName]

dat timesplitters music tho

[@Monkesmell91]

This game I have a sweet spot for it was my first FPS for 360. Young me found it kinda fun.

[@aaronskuse2207]

On a different video about this game, someone had commented about how annoyingly long the iPad loading times were, and I’m confident in saying the transition was artificially extended to stretch out the gameplay length.

[@Jarekthegamingdragon]

I think the load times are quite a bit longer on the PS3 than the 360.

[@no64256]

I'd kinda like to learn about the development of this game, it seems like it'd be pretty interesting Also how do you not get blinded from when your pc background goes super bright lol

[@TROPHYEARNER]

Also, random thought: have you played/considered playing Dread X: The Hunt? I feel like you’d enjoy it, even if it’d probably take a couple streams to complete. Also, I dunno that I’ve ever seen you review an anthology collection of games, so that alone could be pretty interesting

[@bovinleephann6210]

What was that FEAR clip at 10:12? A multiplayer map?

[@mr.cutback3642]

I used to watch your airsoft reviews!

[@Starfleet8555]

The naval aspect of it seems interesting and unique.

[@boostedsc4040]

I had that game for my ps3 haha I remember replaying it like 12 times

[@itsapocalyps0443]

Is it weird that I actually miss the sound of the disc tray ejecting and going back in?

[@hejshshjejeheh5557]

0:05 oh look that's my comment on the left

[@prodx2blackstar820]

i remember getting the platinum on this horrible times

[@overfeen]

Hilarious comment

[@captiankirkgames4385]

I haven’t play movie based games since the GameCube days The game boy advance movie base video games are now so rare that come out

[@AntiBellum]

I really like how much you focus on the guns in FPS games, particularly how you often compare them between games.

[@bullpupgaming708]

Insert Astronaut meme: "Wait the aliens are Craig?" "Always have been"

[@b8s_art]

TGIF 🤘🤘🤘🤘 Happy Friday Jarek

[@BigBoiBleu]

It was a CoD Modern Warfare 2 (2009) Clone. the M4 was a literal copy

[@aaronhill8315]

Love thescreen saver

[@VikingTeddy]

I don't get why the cutscene has to run on the hardware.Why not just save it as a video? Does it save that much space?

[@stefanosiclari]

I have no idea who you are, I don't know what game this is, this video appeared as suggested by KZbin. But I hear the music from Time Splitters Future Perfect in the background, so you are a good person

[@picblick]

Spunkgargleweewee. Thank you, Yahtzee for this word!

[@townicus5908]

I'm pretty sure Pointlesshub made that Craig joke too. They so do look like Craig though.

[@captiankirkgames4385]

Have you done the avatar 1 game original

[@g3b110]

Please do E.Ψ.Ǝ: Divine Cybermancy!

[@Generik97]

I remember getting this game when I was younger from a relative as a gift... I played it for a bit because I didn't have much else. As a sidenote I'm still pretty annoyed at the fact that the potential for a really cool action movie focused around Naval conflict was wasted for a generic Alien movie...

[@Rrgr5]

That 12:31 comment on twitch lmao

[@Delaretro_]

Was the beta or demo on the ps3 ps plus exclusive ? 😂 someone pretty please correct me if I’m mistaken

[@akakipetriashvili19]

You should do The Wanted video game.

[@simplebeats8431]

You should try Samozbor ID:Heaven

[@soldier22881]

Thanks!

[@soldier22881]

loved the xpert pun kudos

[@whatinthefuckisahandle]

They also made this game for Nintendo 3ds as a turn based strategy game

[@sillyriver4486]

Heard of the game but never played it. I did see the movie and the best part in the movie is when the old ww2 veteran says "Let's drop some lead to those mother". I know there's a clip I saw from Angry Joe where If you have a ship with low health you can still kill the enemy ship without doing anything since the enemy just takes it time on trying to shoot you.

[@luisthepro1898]

Nothing like hearing the time splitter theme

[@havoc3-243]

When will you review Secret Service?

[@MrCheesyBaconBits]

I remember thid game vrry fondly. It was a bit of a hidden gem for me considering how bad I thought the movie was. Got a free copy and had nothing better to do so it really surprised me, clearly nothing great but a serviceable shooter and a good way to kill a friday night! Also strangely I remember the exact moment of the game I was playing because its when i found out Robin Williams died. Hard to think that was... what... 7 or 8 years ago now?

[@TheKproductionsful]

I saw Angry Joe's review of this game and that told me enough XD

[@ItatsuMagnatsa]

Try Carrier Command: Gaea Mission.

[@aslag94]

the hit feedback on those aliens is way too fucking good for a game of this quality

[@pickleman40]

Timespliters music lol

[@forrandomsites3336]

The horrible performance in cut scenes are most likely due to the game loading assets in the background, and you'd be damn right if you say this game copies alot of fps shooters, because all of the call of dutys load assets as a cutscene plays, but unlike this game, it's much smoother. Hell even Alien isolation has issue where the cut scenes would heavily tank as the engine dumps and rebuilds the assets in the background.

[@MercenaryX21]

Just learned about the tank gun removal from you and it pisses me off because my computer is in the laptop shop and I can't get it because it only just arrived today after a month of shipping. And they only just started repair work so I am f***ed! How the hell am I supposed to do a laso run now? I'm nowhere near skilled or even got the time to do it without the tank gun.

[@icemaster9728]

Can you cover Shadow Warrior 3?

[@michaelpitcher2820]

Boom Slingers looks a lot like a game I used to play in the early 2000s online called Dinky Bomb. Same concept

[@lilbrayden6199]

Jerek, I recommend that you review Ashes:2063. It’s a doom mod. Check it out if you can. Keep up the great videos!

[@SBandy]

Double Helix went on to better things with the absolute banger of a game that is Killer Instinct!

[@hyennavernhyavonragnarok3999]

I'm not an expert but a 2-3 seconds reload on the triple 406mm mark 7 guns of Missouri is kinda very quick.... Like from what I remember it's closer to 20 seconds and I'm very very generous

[@RubleInnawoods]

I loved this game when I was younger haha

[@DipManDon]

Did you ever play MadWorld on Wii one of my favorite wii games

[@ChaseMC215]

The best part of the game is that sheet of paper promoting Dead Or Alive 5 Ultimate.

[@teddyfresh9605]

Can't wait for battleship the movie, the game, the movie

[@aaronluisdelacruz4212]

Please make a review of Gundam Battle Operation 2

[@airsoftfatty1234]

Still waiting for the day you cover turok evolution. #dinsosaresareawsome

[@Jarekthegamingdragon]

I discovered that game 20 years ago when it launched

[@airsoftfatty1234]

@@Jarekthegamingdragon I grew up on it, still in my top 3 games of all time, have you heard of road trip adventure for the ps2, games long as hell, and is basicly cars, before cars came out.

[@lordmolag45000]

Dinosaurs are definitely awesome. Turok: Evolution, though, is awful. Shit combat, awful graphics, horrendous controls, painfully linear level design, dumb as rocks ai, etc.

[@iicustodianlaw]

lets bully jarek into reviewing ready or not

[@kacperprzysiezny3185]

For some reason i though that Battleship, Battle Los Angeles and Skyline were shared universe of crappy movies.

[@phillipgrubb2443]

Nah nah bro, your right. They are part of the crapverse. But to be fair to battle LA it wasn't trying to be something it wasn't. It knew what it was and went full on with it. Battleship. Is just a robot chicken joke. Like literally robot chicken made the joke that they were running out of ideas for movies. So they were just gonna start copying everything. Including family board games. And sure as shit, like 3 or 4 years later. We got battleship. And clue. Qnd a few others.

[@dredgenheresy]

You can tell a lot about a person by whether or not the HDMI sticker is still on the front of their Xbox One.

[@danielbob2628]

First time on the channel. Why is the dragon man on the moving outro card sexy? It makes me sad.

[@AtomicEy]

13:32 sounds like something a Warframe Dev would do