Tuesday, July 29, 2003
Hey! You Sank My Battleship!
Posted by Brad Adrian in "SOFTWARE" @ 03:00 AM
If those words sound at all familiar to you, then you are one of millions of people who grew up playing the famous "Battleship" game from Milton Bradley. Introduced in 1967, this game has now entered the 21st century as a new version for the Pocket PC.
Now owned and sold by Handmark, the Pocket PC version of Battleship remains true to the earlier versions, with a few electronic twists:
• Single player against computer AI
• Two levels of AI (Normal and Hard) Multi-player
• Multi-device play via IR and TCP/IP
• Salvo game variant with number of shots determined by the number of ships remaining in each player's fleet
• Realistic game sounds
• Adjustable game volume and speed
• Statistics presented at the end of the game
I've played with this for a while, and the graphics are better than the various cloned versions. And, even though other Handmark games for the Pocket PC are pretty expensive, there is a free demo, and the full version of Battleship goes for "only" $19.99.
Now owned and sold by Handmark, the Pocket PC version of Battleship remains true to the earlier versions, with a few electronic twists:
• Single player against computer AI
• Two levels of AI (Normal and Hard) Multi-player
• Multi-device play via IR and TCP/IP
• Salvo game variant with number of shots determined by the number of ships remaining in each player's fleet
• Realistic game sounds
• Adjustable game volume and speed
• Statistics presented at the end of the game
I've played with this for a while, and the graphics are better than the various cloned versions. And, even though other Handmark games for the Pocket PC are pretty expensive, there is a free demo, and the full version of Battleship goes for "only" $19.99.
