BATTLE: LOS ANGELES - The Crappiest Crappy Shooter

Battle: Los Angeles is a concentrated distillation of everything that people hate about 7th gen military shooters. Which, naturally, means I love it. Watch more awful games at / oboeshoesgames

[@podurt2557]

I would like to remind everyone this game came out the same year as Skyrim, Batman: Arkham City and Deus Ex: Human Revolution.

[@mattc7420]

They all had stiff competition with Battle: LA.

[@MomJeans1738]

And Battlefield 3

[@YaBoyJRock42069]

Yeah.. I member

[@thenoodle_man]

Oof

[@theblacknaruto]

Yeah but you see what happens when the budget is tight.

[@rsmac11]

As a retired Marine Corps Officer, I can indeed verify that if a hostile extraterrestrial force invaded by air and by sea and began decimating the west coast of the United States, my very first thought would be "this is probably the Taliban." Super easy mistake to make.

[@staeslait2343]

What was your rank?

[@NA-AN]

@@staeslait2343 69 I presume.

[@jackstone608]

Rank check from an amungus

[@Phucketmcsucket]

1:11 also Marines are in fact trained to shoot their M16s one handed gangster style

[@crungo619]

@@Phucketmcsucket No, that's just the National Guard. Devs were probably confused. Marines hold the gun's magazine so that every time they shoot, there's a 50% chance that the recoil causes the mag to fall out.

[@03gade85]

For the record, this game was an Xbox Live Arcade release, not a fully boxed $60 product.

[@mitchelkvedar674]

I had fun with it for what it was

[@BrownEyePinch]

It still sucks

[@pauline3775]

i've only play the demo on the xbox store

[@Robocopnik]

Even so.

[@DoomieGruntVentures]

Are you sure it isn't indie release?

[@apex1757]

Battle Los Angeles is a movie I love because of the unique way it portrays an Alien invasion. The aliens act a lot like a modern military force throughout the movie, dragging their wounded and displaying squad tactics much like the Marines in the movie do unlike most films where they're this hugely inhuman and unknowable force

[@Starfleet8555]

I mean the movie wasn't terrible but it wasn't great either. There are much better films to depict an alien invasion.

[@adammathers4879]

@@Starfleet8555 The difference is this movie did so in a realistic way. It wasn't flashy or incredibly compelling with its plot, but it felt like what one would experience if it actually happened. An alien militarized force lands on earth and begins assaulting cities, and the US military responds.

[@jonathanpilcher337]

I don't think the alien formations being reminiscent of the us military suddenly makes the movie not dogwater, like it's still pretty par for the course of that whole wave of america being invaded in media during that early 2000s + a few years period of fearmongering

[@adammathers4879]

@@jonathanpilcher337 America being invaded has been a theme since the 1980s with the cold war. This is just a movie about aliens. Don't try to make too many connections. It's cool that the aliens were portrayed realistically. That's what everyone's trying to say.

[@user-xsn5ozskwg]

@@adammathers4879 I mean, any film that so prominently features the US military exists within the politics of its time and it's undeniable that Battle LA was trying to do the same the Battleship did of "look, we need a big budget to fight da aliens, join the Marines!" It's just about aliens in the same way any other invasion film of a similar vein is.

[@ZeGermanFox]

I like how the M4A1 sounds like someone rapidly tapping their fingers on a desk

[@leef8433]

Just like real life

[@BobBob-oz2hf]

They couldn't even use the M16s they had in the movie, or even at least put on some attachments, just a bare M4

[@BoisegangGaming]

the sergeant making the rise of skywalker multi-hour video has to be one of my favorite gags of this channel. And there's a lot of good gags.

[@seanevans7893]

Agreed, easily top 5 best gags honestly.

[@mrchiefbs]

So specific and it's damn perfect

[@AiRJacobs]

"Force Healing doesn't make any sense, Marines!"

[@fraundakelmbrilpondaprost90]

I loved seeing someone call out that terrible format. Can't stand all the channels using a lame mascot with the same handful of "deep contemplative thinking", "stern judgment" and "lecturing" still poses. The dudes behind the mic are almost always completely pretentious dweebs, too.

[@seva809]

3:31 i remember when i was playing it on my xbox 360 i started laughing so hard at the face of that military pilot that i pulled the cable from the joypad, which caused my console to fall.

[@flow185]

Did the console died?

[@leef8433]

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[@Schmidt54]

Comic Sans subtitles and Impact meme font for descriptions? Is this game a secret masterpiece?

[@Der-Kleine]

1:10 E Aim sports. It's in the game.

[@braedzero8127]

The rantsona joke with the sergeant was fucking hilarious. 10/10 video

[@gangstalker69]

Honestly the movie wasn't even that bad, it's a B movie schlockfest propaganda film but I mean aliens go boom so it's a good movie to have on if you just want shit blowing up on screen. What sucks is there's actually a bunch of behind the scenes info that actually gives motivation and some insight on the aliens that was never implemented into the film cause the producers were cheap. Long story short the aliens you see in the movie are basically slaves that are sent down by more advanced aliens to attempt to clear the local inhabitants so the ruling class aliens can take all the resources. They're basically sent there to die too cause they don't have a way off planet since all the aircraft are unmanned drones. They expected a sequel that they would of fleshed the aliens out more but clearly that didn't happen lol

[@bunbungaming8446]

Huh, I didn't know that I only saw the film once, and I didn't know if I liked it or not. I was thinking the game was a dumb idea though, cause the point of the movie was that the aliens had a weakness in there armor, and unless you aimed for that curtain part of there body, they wouldn't die.

[@gangstalker69]

@@bunbungaming8446 yeah I randomly saw an interview with the director when it first came out and he basically had to fill in all the gaps. I mean I assume they were just molded and hand guns grafted on since they were just cheap cannon fodder to die, he didn't go too indepth but an educated guess what maybe that's why the smarter aliens made them slaves cause they're hard to put down permanently

[@bunbungaming8446]

@@gangstalker69 oh man, I just had a thought. We might have been watching and playing a very diet Halo. The series is about a race of enslaved aliens, the games feature the Grunts, and the movies feature Hunters. But yeah, that kind of sucks that the director had to fill in the blanks in interviews, cause it seemed like there was gonna more to this than what we eventually got.

[@subatomicseal7789]

Wait wait, so it's a military propaganda film where the villains are a rich ruling class sending poor, abused grunts to die for the sake of their own profits? And the director...didn't see the irony in that?

[@Amber_Valentine]

yeah the ending literally just guy taking down a ship, it just that, no lore about the alien whatsoever

[@dude27lebowski]

Fun fact: Saber Interactive, the people who have made Timeshift which you have covered in your channel not a long time ago, developed this game. Konami also published this game though we all aren't surprised considering Konami have also made and sold some stinkers and made incredibly terrible decisions sometimes.

[@SpecShadow]

sometimes?

[@almost_friday9745]

@@SpecShadow they fucked over kf2

[@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716]

Didn't saber interactive also make the crysis trilogy remasters

[@TheRealAmericanMan]

@@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716 Saber has made a LOT of incredible game ports They even do better with Switch ports than Panic Button

[@vaeastra]

And they’re making the next 40k Space Marine game, which, uhh, has me concerned now.

[@nielsmichiels1939]

The fact that the people that made this movie thought that this piece of turd was going to be a multi movie franchise astounds me.

[@PoyoPancakes]

LOL I never knew that. That’s hilarious!

[@dylanmonstrum1538]

There's a lot of lore about them, they weren't just "me am anlien", they were interesting.

[@spinyslasher6586]

@@dylanmonstrum1538 too bad the actual characters and story sucked hard.

[@dylanmonstrum1538]

@Zach B. Your opinion that it sucked doesn't mean it sucked. That's what I'm saying. All you're doing is repeating shit you've heard. You're not original, or have an original thought.

[@gamefan987]

@@dylanmonstrum1538 and who are you to judge his opinion ? How do you know that it's not his opinion ? Just because he didn't like a shitty movie doesn't mean he is repeating it.

[@connorbanepoop]

This is literally what LA looks like they didn’t even add anything new. Talk about lazy devs.

[@johnbacon4997]

They predicted the future of LA years ago WOW

[@thenoobreturnz8968]

You mean Detroit

[@TedTeddison99]

I actually love the Battle: LA movie. The squad level infantry tactics and response from the military is quite realistic and well done. And I like an alien movie where the aliens aren’t just OP with levels of technology that defy the basic principles of science. Believe it or not, an organic life form is not gonna like a grenade if we ever do find some aliens most likely.

[@ARStudios2000]

I loved this movie too! Its a shame how its legacy has gone and it makes me sad.

[@zachoftheguard6442]

It's a great movie I love it too. I think it didn't get the love it deserved because a lot of people prefer wierd romance side plot and deep Philosophy in a war movie.

[@sgtmuffinbadger6147]

Realistic is a stretch

[@pedroholsbach8592]

Boy I sure do love barely disguised propaganda films for the US military. I will give it credit, at least it's not trying to hide it, unlike, say, Transformers or Man of Steel

[@ThatOneGuyWhoLostHisHandle]

@@pedroholsbach8592 Wait so any movie posing the US military in a leading good guy role is propaganda? How terrible, I guess we'll just have to pretend like our own fighting forces are evil and make some other country's military the hero for no apparent reason. I mean if you classify any glorification of one's own military as propaganda then what is wrong with propaganda as a whole in the first place? It would only be the extreme types of propaganda that straight-up lie to influence people that are bad no? But luckily it's not, propaganda is something that tries to manipulate somebodies beliefs through targeted advertising and if you think the goal of this movie was to do anything but make America's marines look mighty and proud then you're on some shit XDXD.

[@OnionMilk420]

'Press E to aim' killed me lmao xD

[@TacBans]

"Boston Dynamics dog but with a machine gun" _Looks at The Division 2_

[@romeoechofoxtrot18]

1:11 a marine is holding / firing is rifle gangsta style. Ah yes the makings of a great game

[@AidenRKrone]

I noticed that too. Your comment is the only one I could find pointing it out. This game is pretty bad but that atrocity takes the cake. I wonder if it's a bug or if the animation designers intentionally made it that way.

[@RodgerYoung2024]

@@AidenRKrone lol yeah

[@Benzilla089]

The entire game is them yelling "what the hell is that?" 10/10

[@GoonieLord]

I remember this damn game took me hours to get all the achievements and once I did no Platinum trophy! So years later I got my first Platinum with that weird game where you grope a jar of mayonnaise called I am mayonnaise

[@MrTibster]

My Name is Mayo is a classic

[@LunchSays]

Pure gamer commitment.

[@LKN117]

Anybody else notice they forgot to draw in the support for the billboard tower at 1:55? So it look like a huge billboard is being supported by a ladder.

[@faceless2302]

incredible discovery

[@xXbaker1025Xx]

Battle Los Angeles synopsis: "What the hell is that???"

[@alanwestmoreland6152]

1:12 you know you're in LA when they're *gangsta firing an m4*

[@user-dv9ic5dh9k]

Damn, remember playing this, probably was like 8 years ago,it was entertaining,for me at that time...

[@Dimitri-tq8ti]

Not gonna lie, i do remember having fun playing this

[@mitchelkvedar674]

same lol

[@walnzell9328]

The movie actually has way more lore than it has any right to. The origins of the alien species. Their leadership structure, goals, biology, etc. It's enough to actually get me to want a sequel. Even as mediocre as the movie was. The game... oh the game. They figure out pretty quickly that what they initially thought was the head is actually just their eyes. Their brain is in the "chest" area. Dead center mass. But the game treats the "head" like a human head. Completely taking one bit of actually cool lore from the movie out of the equation.

[@Azuly1337]

Oh my god I forgot about this nightmare. I’m so happy you’re covering it

[@dylanmonstrum1538]

Such a shame, the movie is awesome.

[@yKeion]

Exactly it’s a great movie

[@GamingKick]

Agreed! Liked it too!

[@exterminator1107]

Yea and the lore was pretty interesting

[@dylanmonstrum1538]

@@exterminator1107 Yeah, how each type of alien had their own kind of purpose It's a great kind of alien invasion movie

[@fromthefire4176]

In retrospect, it’s a cool idea that the aliens don’t seem that much more advanced than us, just desperate and willing to do whatever to win. Having them be believably beatable is a really underrated element just on its own too.

[@Puppybreth242]

Nice seeing what those aliens actually look like at least. The movie was just one big blurry mess.

[@ARStudios2000]

Honestly to me, the fact you often didn't see the aliens even in combat just made them feel more unnerving to me.

[@chanachon56]

You didn't see the scene where the marines dragged a severely wounded alien inside the police station and stab it repeatedly to see "where to hit" it to kill them?

[@quint3ssent1a]

Fukken lel, i watched movie at cinema and thought it was forgettable crap, and after all these years now i know that there was a tie-in game (never heard about it before.) Which really tells something.

[@sneakysnake7695]

Battle: Los Angeles is actually considered pretty underrated, it has very grounded and somewhat realistic combat scenarios and even the aliens have some humanity in them, they're on the run from another alien force and are desperate to take any planet they can in order to hide from their oppressors

[@grahaldmills5930]

Considered underrated by a very tiny population of penguins living in Antarctica

[@JohnDoe-wt9ek]

Movie was good. The game controlled like early 2000's, late 1990's FPS games like MoH and CoD. It was a cash grab game to benefit off of the relative hype that was Battle: LA. I played it just after my senior year of high school once. Never really wanted to again because it was just that cumbersome and unenthusiastically boring.

[@iWerli]

0:15 the slideshow font is actually either Muro or Bebas Neue, I make decals and can tell ya that font certainly isn't impact who cares tho, just wanted to add my two cents LOL keep up the content

[@overtherenowaitthere]

Holy shit the Star Wars 4 pose reviewer bit fucking got me…so glad I subbed you’ve got a catalog to go through and new shit at least once a week

[@NotOnLand]

I love that for the cutscenes it sounds like audio from the movie and stock elements played over a visual novel

[@yak4269]

i have to respect the havoc physics engine billboard standing on one ladder at 1:55

[@KrishnaMusicc]

Ur force unleashed videos popped up in my recommended. I'm now obessed with ur content lmao

[@jacobrohlinger9038]

YES I’ve waited so long for you to make a video on this game

[@ThoroughYoungin]

I love how genuine and organic this Chanel is❤️

[@waffenbear117]

I actually really enjoyed this movie when I was little lol.

[@flyhigh8113]

Honestly I have no idea how I found you and how I even got into this genre but.... You definitely deserve a sub from me :)

[@nadav2003]

I have been waiting forever for this because I can barely find any video of this game

[@FlameQwert]

that impact font killed me lmfao and those wikihow cinematics

[@mr_jiblets7731]

Honestly the movie was dumb but fun

[@Zogger568]

"alright boss, we got the go ahead for the game, what's our budget and time line?" "yeah, budget is $10.50 and a 5 dollar McDonald's gift card. We need this done by next week"

[@giuseppezipper3167]

Weirdest Marine Recruitment game I've ever seen BTW, you should play Rambo:The Video Game

[@calgacus34]

this popped up in my feed and I legit you were gonna talk about the movie and it's video game structure.😂😂

[@Kim.Jong-Liu]

Lol the cutscenes just look like storyboards with added comic sans speech bubbles

[@oldworldpatriot8920]

3:19 To be fair,the military would probably refer to the flying ones as “air units” in targeting and identification. They wouldn’t know what those things are actually called

[@TyrannicalCannibal]

i am genuinely bummed i didn’t pick this up when i had the chance. i know its junk but i have a weird affinity for 7th generation garbage games. plus this came out in the middle of the fps phase of my childhood and i remember really wanting to try it when i first saw it but never getting to bc i was just a kid earning zero income.

[@IPODsify]

Genius thumbnail, thought this was a Bad Day LA video

[@zglg123]

You are legitimately one of the most naturally witty, and funniest people in this genre. I am profoundly grateful for the algorithm which brought me here. Do you have a Patreon?

[@Phucketmcsucket]

The most amazing thing about this game is the audio quality for the voice acting. It genuinely sounds like they recorded their lines in some dude's basement.

[@varsityreviews707]

I love this game and movie as a guilty pleasure. But honestly the game itself, it’s honestly impressive how faithful to the movie it was. Great trophy run on PS3

[@outwithjohn7038]

The move was pretty amazing and honestly I thought there was going to be a move series like World at War: Battle of New York, Chicago, Paris or Moscow & etc. the lore would have been very interesting cause aliens obviously.

[@mrplatinumskillzonemagfed2552]

All you've done is reminded me to drag out me old PS3 and boot it up

[@Clippychinw]

I think scream star sounds like a good name for the drone

[@ryuhanja3415]

I remember playing this game tons when I was young, like multiple times lol

[@Seer_Xaeo]

that "the dead speak" part made me guffaw aloud

[@Virtual_Villain]

The Skywalker-Quote killed Me!😂👌🏻

[@drewgarcia117]

I don't see anyone talking about it so I gotta bring it up, but they honestly did a fantastic job on recreating Los Angeles almost exactly. Like, for a second I thought you were actually there.

[@saladv6069]

Remember, Battle:LA is a war movie first, alien movie second. That's why the aliens are mostly equal in technology and why they use technical terms for the alien tech

[@someretardontheinternet]

The ones we saw in the movie were basically slaves for a higher power

[@echo_9835]

This game looks like a student project that got a -C

[@ctcheeserexplores7443]

Love to see so many people actually liked the movie like I do, I mean yeah it’s pretty average action movie stuff but there’s just something in there that makes it special to me

[@ARStudios2000]

Me too

[@raeepar4085]

1:12 We Can All Appreciate an Soldier that Shoots His Rifle like that.

[@nexuzed7429]

Play Battleship:The game next if you can

[@patronamix5878]

I have to disagree...the movie was beautiful

[@BRAZLLE]

No one going to mention at 1:11 the marine one handing his rifle tilted to the side like a gangster 🤣

[@ChristionHiggs]

i thought you were playing bad day l.a. i shit my pants, then i saw the impact font news broadcast while i was typing and decided to make a longer funnier comment

[@ChristionHiggs]

LESS funny

[@timothyedge6100]

Loved the movie, still waiting for Harvey Two Face and the crew to retake Los Angles

[@CyberMonty2077]

I forgot this game existed.. now I’m sad that I remember it.

[@thephilarmy5]

C'mon man I need to know about that Alien turntable 2 👾

[@ProdByShawn]

This is indeed a game of its year!

[@bongosmcdongos4190]

That helicopter scene looked like an old KZbin abridged scene

[@jam1e-527]

The game features Los Angeles getting inavaded so that makes it at least an 8/10

[@xlambs]

once again, oboe delivering the lol moments

[@N-GinAndTonicTM]

Battle: Los Angeles is a genuine guilty pleasure of mine. The film I mean.

[@clifisboring]

Just thought I’d mention that this game in the description is credited as Black Ops 1

[@zashbot]

I CANNOT believe that you didn't mention the use of the "Comic Sans" font

[@lynkrig5635]

I do not miss the dark days of movie video games

[@elmerikamari801]

I watch oboeshoes just to see the dead speak

[@somedude5657]

Does anyone else remember this game from NorthernLion’s machinina series Poison Mushroom?

[@respawn223]

Oh my gosh I'm not crazy! I freaking knew this game existed

[@berz9655]

My god I remember playing this game years ago

[@mojungle3054]

THE DEAD SPEAK

[@justanotheryoutubechannel]

Wow, this is so strange, the cutscenes look so weird and wikihow-like but the game is 3D and looks like a normal 7th gen shooter!? This just bizarre

[@thehandoftheking3314]

This concept deserved so much better. Imagine if the operation: Flash Point crew had being able to make this a proper game in an openwork type map.

[@ethanisfancy]

"He's about to make a 4-hour video essay about The Rise of Skywalker"

[@attackofthecopyrightbots]

I mean, the fact that if you look up battle los angeles sha first thing that comes up is "shaky camera" so more than one person is looking it up

[@jakestocker4854]

I was mixing this up with Bad Day In LA and was very confused lol

[@accessthemainframe4475]

"What should we call that alien Unidentified Flying Object, sir?" "Air Unit"

[@Cameraman1047]

I was watching this looked up at the tv and Battle Los Angeles was on Tv 😂

[@Mr_bumsmell]

The billboard at 1:55 is being held up by a ladder

[@sickfarce6275]

Hey Oboe, I remember a fps from 2008 called Legendary. I remember I hated it, but dont remember why exactely. If you havent covered it already I would love to see you play it.

[@gang6009]

This movie blew my mind when I was kid

[@Pez888888]

You should play The movie tie-in game for Battleship. It is a gem 😂

[@suzysuzuki8865]

The gems part got me😂

[@iaincrawford8004]

This is as truly hilarious as the movie was. The more serious it gets the funnier it becomes

[@dzl4524]

Press E for Eim, obviously.

[@DatAnnexGuy]

Holy Shit, you pulled out a suppressed memory. I actually played this game.

[@havoc3-243]

Oboe, do you mind doinga multiplayer tournament with Chappie on Soldier of Fortune 3 (Payback)? Same rules as the Battle for the Pacific tournament.