Battalion Wars, great game, just something's are just plain terrible
Gameplay - First you are greeted to the campaign with the Solar Empire Symbol, then you go there and select the first mission, and ones thing for sure is that the dialogue is so slow, you wish you could just make the dialogue go faster by holding down the button but... No it's still slow. After that you have to sit through a CG trailer, then you actually play as a solar empire grunt, at first you would notice it's like your playing on the computer, and really it's hard to control your person at first, but throughout the first mission or so you'll get the hang of it. What slows down the whole game, is at first every time you go to the golden star a cut scene comes just to show you the enemy approaching you, how useless, you just want to play the game!! Also counting is that in the first mission you are always being stopped by the instruction's just to show you how to do it. But is your playing the first mission over again expect that to always happen.
So when your in battle, you always know what to do, but scrolling through your army is a little bit slow, but it's more of a pain to do it when your in the middle of battle when the enemy call's in more reinforcement's. Also the camera, truly the camera is already bad enough to deal with at time's when your in the middle of battle, and the bomber's fly over head at the camera just makes it hard to move any where, and know who's even on the ground behind you. What would be better is if the camera scrolled even higher than the aircraft instead of rubbing against the ground. But what I like about the camera is that when it's raining you can see some water on the screen. Locking on to your enemies is still in but, what I still hate is that when they are so far away they can't even your enemy like WTH!! Also theres the new base capture thing, which is good if your running out of infantry but so slow to capture the flag.
The online part of the game is where it all happens, if you want to have a good time with your friend's, or somebody else. But with the lack of communication on Co-op your more like WTH are you doing! But I still find co-op more better than skirmish. Most likely your armies are picked for you rather than to have a list to choose from. But with Co-op online is just so dang hard and you really need to cooperate with the person over on the other side. With the other mode's just the opposite you really need to be strategic in order to win the match.
All in all the Gameplay is great, just that the camera is ok but really bad in battle, also the online is great and competitive.
Gameplay - 8.2
Sound - I love the surround sound, because you can't hear your grunt's. But I have gotta say that the voice acting is better this time around, and the voice actor for brigadier Betty is better than the last which is sooo annoying. More likely when a battle start it's just a crowd of sound's. The downside it plays that you could barley hear the planes flying over head, like the put some sort of technology in them so the engine is so quiet. I also want to point out that each time missiles approach you there also silent. The only good part is you can only hear you vehicle shoot it. Last, it's even hard enough to hear your infantry die, so your more likely to look at the bottom of the screen once in a while just to know who died or not. Out of all most of that is not much necessary to the gameplay and your environment.
All in all the Sound is great but something just seems a little too quiet.
Sound - 8.9
To sum up as what I just said, it a great game but it's slow at times, and some thing can annoy you.