[Seademon]

This is a game I looked at and posted on the board here at subsim about a year ago as it was in development, then called "Battle of Midway" It has since evolved into a great game and its basically an action type third person strategy game. It has the same look and feel of Battlefield 1942 but also it also has more realstic sea state and explosive effects are superior to battlfield. This is not a simulation but an action 3d strategy.. Translation = a third person shooter naval game.

The creator is Mithis games and it will be pulished by Sales Curve Interactive

Due for release at the end of summer I have left a link here for the Developer Interview from SCI where a vidio streaming description of the game can be seen and in game footage.

It has an official homepage at http://www.battlestations.net and it looks like a period newspaper and that is the menu. it has a snappy little downlod movie in the genre of a 1940s movie newsreel, very nice touch.

The game takes place during the six months between the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in late 1941 and the decisive Battle of Midway in June 1942. During the single-player campaign, you'll play as a US Naval Academy graduate who manages to get caught up in all the battles and skirmishes leading up to Midway. The game therefore has a user rank system that you increase as you go along and get more experience in a campaign.

With an emphasis on naval and air action, you're able to jump between different ships, submarines, and planes, and you can control them in battle. So you can control a warship as it trades broadsides with another ship, you can take control of a fighter and then dogfight with enemy planes, and you can even take control of a submarine to try to sink an enemy vessel. All the action takes place in third person, which means that you're constantly looking at the craft you're controlling.

Graphics are excellent and undersea submarine views are also nice. All the textures used on planes and warships were originally hand-painted, giving them strong looks. Meanwhile, both ships and planes look very sharp, as each is rendered with large numbers of polygons. There's so much detail that if you squint and zoom up you can see tiny menmanning the anti-aircraft guns on a ship.

The strategic part of the game will let you issue orders to units you aren't actively controlling. For instance, you can order your escorts to attack one enemy ship while you take control of a cruiser and pound another ship yourself or change to aircraft.

There are heavy strategic bombers, fighters, dive-bombers, torpedo-bombers, battleships, cruisers, destroyers, torpedo boats, and more.

The game will feature about 10 or 12 battles, all of which are based on actual events. This means that your mission objectives will closely correspond to history. When you finish the US campaign, you'll unlock the specialized Japanese missions, which are tougher than the US ones. In addition to the campaign, the game will be released with plane, ship, and submarine challenges that will task you with performing certain objectives
In addition to single-player missions, Battlestations Midway has a multiplayer mode, It will support up to 16 players on all three platforms.

By the looks of it at in game vidio streaming footage and the screenshots visually its very good but not as good as silent hunter 3, better than BF1942. Sea state is fairly realistic, better than dangerous waters, not as good as SH3.

For me personally I give it 8/10 but this game it not to be underestimated and I will be looking to get it and hopefully Seawolves Surface division adopts it.

[Grom]

And only thing i wish to add is that i am waiting for this game. Looks very very nice, hopefuly we will have surface battles game.