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Eidos Interactive's World War II game, Battlestations: Midway is gearing up for a US release tomorrow, while the rest of the world will get it on February 9 (Europe) and February 28 (Australia). IGN Australia recently sat down and chatted with the game's producer Klaude Thomas. Basically, he talked about the amount of research they did to replicate real WWII battles and just how hard is it to develop a game like Battlestations.He divulges that the research was done in the entire development process and they relied on videos, photos, and even original blueprints with permission from the National Maritime Museum. Now that the research part is covered, he was then asked about the challenges they had to face to create this game, he says that:
Creating an interface (including the control system) which fit seamlessly into the game and empowered players to give and set advanced tactical commands quickly and effectively was difficult. To make that work across all the different situations and unit types in a way that probably now seems simple and obvious was hard work.
As for what's next in the series, this is what Klaude revealed:
We'd love to add more content and historical detail in the sequels, for example experimental (but real) craft, early jets and rockets, submarine-launched aircraft (and Cruiser launched FBs), interesting and forgotten battles, and of course we would like to introduce new theatres of operation...We also wanted to see the biggest US warship, the Iowa, match-up against YamatoÂ…
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Well, it may be that the developers did some WWII research on the ships and planes, but the people who put the details on them on the website have no clue! Ships with the wrong weapons loadouts or historical info abound. The Yamato class ships, for example, are listed as having 16x 16" guns. Anyone who knows anything about that class of ships knows it had 18" guns. The list of innacuracies is pretty big. The game rocks! but the website's historical accuracy does NOT!
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