Capital j Media released today the first trailer footage of its upcoming World War 2 Naval Strategy game, Battle Fleet 2. According to the team, Battle Fleet 2 is coming to all devices in June of 2014 and there is also a Steam Greenlight campaign for it.
According to its press release, the game expands the original concept of turn based naval combat where the player controls the angle and power of their guns and the movement of the ship to include a campaign conquest mode in addition to stand alone scenarios. The combat system has been improved for faster and even more exciting battles and it all looks better than the original with the new graphical engine.
Additional improvements include better options for outfitting your ships, including the ability to place individual commanders with special abilities, expanded power-up cards to play, better multiplayer options, and an entirely new graphics engine. Battle Fleet 2 looks better, plays better, but is otherwise a true successor to the original best seller.
Battle Fleet 2 is described as a true naval combat sim set in the WW2 era. Players manually control the weapon loadout of their ships, selecting which guns to bring, setting what the angle and power of their shots are, and determining how the ships move and turn. Additionally carriers bring planes, bombing runs, and interception into battles taking place around island chains, which can help provide cover, blocking line of sight, or forcing enemies to run aground. All of this comes together in a fast paced battle in scenarios, campaign mode, or online against other players.
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It’s games like this that made me wonder: “Just who are the REAL elitists?”
Console fans love to remind PC fans about their exclusive titles and the power of optimization on dedicated, locked hardware while accusing PC fans for being too obsessive with graphics with very little exclusive titles to be proud of.
And yet I constantly see and interested in a lot of strange ideas from the PC. Not many of them have the same AAA graphics a lot of next gen console games have. Everyone’s going crazy over Watch Dogs atm but instead I’m keenly looking up at some side scrollers on the Steam page and this little title just waiting to be greenlit.
Accusing PC gamers for being snobbish elitists is flimsy at best when there are tons of non-AAA-looking games being made and sold on it. In the mean time console fans with their next gen gear are talking about how shiny the next exclusive titles will look.