There are 10 extra challenge missions focusing on specific types of units from both the Japan and US forces, but the challenge missions aren't as exciting as the larger story battles. There are 11 missions in the single-player campaign, and although some of those missions can easily take the better part of an hour to complete, you can easily finish the campaign in four or five hours. The dialogue in the story is forced and almost comically bad at times, but the characters do a decent job of personalizing the battles, and it's gratifying to see your recruit go from cruising around a harbor in a tiny PT boat to commanding fleets of ships out on the open sea. Between battles, you'll see rendered cutscenes intended to develop a story about Henry Walker's rise through the ranks to eventually become the captain of the massive aircraft carrier known as the USS Yorktown. From there, your skills as a commander are put to the test in historical battles such as the Battle of the Coral Sea and, eventually, the Battle of Midway.

In the single-player campaign, you play as Henry Walker, a Navy recruit who shows up at Pearl Harbor just in time for the Japanese attack in December, 1941. You can take to the skies as a fighter pilot.īattlestations: Midway is set in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II. It's a lesson that the creative minds at Eidos must be familiar with, because the publisher's latest game, Battlestations: Midway, makes sinking the steel behemoths of the sea every bit as satisfying as hearing a friend shout out, 'You sank my battleship!' However, Battlestations: Midway is more than a game about blowing ships out of the water it's an interesting blend of action and real-time strategy that does a remarkably good job of appealing to both tastes. If the gaming gurus at Milton Bradley have taught us anything, it's that battleships are made to be sunk.

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