Xbox 360

Battlestations: Midway

Description

It's the year 1941 and you are Lt. Henry Walker a young Navy Officer stationed at Pearl Harbor. You are late for duty and on route to your ship as the Japanese attack the harbor and sink it. Now you first help to defend the harbor and then take the fight all the way to the last Battle of the pacific around the Midway Islands.

You are limited to control the ships, subs and planes the game gives you in the single-player campaign but in multiplayer-matches you are free to jump into anything that moves and isn't currently occupied by another player. So it's yours to decide at anytime if you want to fly a plane, steer a cruiser or take the on the enemy under water with a submarine anytime you like. Since there are several kinds of ships from Torpedo Boats over Destroyers to Aircraft Carriers and planes like the F4F Wildcat or the SBD Dauntless you have different options and weapons at your disposal. On a Aircraft Carrier for example, which has only AA guns, you can build up squads of airplanes, assign targets and launch them. You can also go to the tactical map if you currently controlling a ship and assign formations, give out orders and so on. Or just jump into a vehicle and do everything yourself instead of letting the AI or the other players take care of it.

The single-player also features three different challenges, one for each type of vehicle. Each mission inside a challenge puts you in difficult situations you've to master. The first mission in the ship challenge for example gives you control over a Japanese Battleship which has been ambushed and needs to reach safety as US Destroyers advance at it's position.

Alternate Titles

• "Midway: Naval Battles" -- Working title

Part of the Following Groups

• Aircraft: F4F Wildcat
• Technology: amBX
• World War II games

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The Press Says

Game Chronicles	Feb 15, 2007	9 out of 10	90
Gamezoom	Feb 21, 2007	87 out of 100	87
Imperium Gier	May 09, 2007	8.5 out of 10	85
IGN	Jan 26, 2007	8.5 out of 10	85
Xboxdynasty (XD)	Feb 09, 2007	8.1 out of 10	81
Ferrago Ltd. (play.tm)	Feb 08, 2007	78 out of 100	78
MS Xbox World	Mar 13, 2007	7.5 out of 10	75
GamePro	Feb 06, 2007	3.5 out of 5	70
Computer Bild Spiele	Mar 07, 2007	2.86 out of 6	63
Gamer Within	Mar 27, 2007	6.3 out of 10	63

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Trivia

In November 2005, SCi exercised its contractual right to take over development of the game. They held a contact with MGE Software & Investment Limited, who subcontracted development to the now defunct Mithis Entertainment.

SCi was dissatisfied with MGE not meeting the milestones. According to SCi, MGE then demanded compensation and when none was forthcoming made an official complaint to the authorities in Budapest, relating to the ownership of intellectual property rights.

This lead to the founding of Eidos Hungary KFT, who finished the game.