Battleship (WP)
  • 07-29-2014 06:49 PM (Updated 07-29-2014)

Just like when we were kids...

Battleship is back, this time for the windows phone! Pretty much the same as you remember the original, with a couple of extra modes thrown in for fun. This time there is also MP mode, which is the only problem area for many. Thankfully it's not local wi-fi only, but that's not the problem. While the game plays fairly well, it has a tendency to stop working after awhile, requiring a full reinstall to fix it. While that doesn't wipe your visible leaderboard numbers for wins, it does actually reset it back to 0, requiring you to start all over. There are workaround for this, including queuing up 200 games and letting them time out, but a patch that never came would have been much better. Overall, it's not a bad game, but in the end it really is just battleship and gets old pretty fast.
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