When did Battalion Wars come out?

Battalion Wars was released on 19 September 2005 for Nintendo GameCube.

Battalion Wars (2005) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Battalion Wars

A global conflict has reached a stalemate in the console version of the Game Boy Advance series Advance Wars. The evil Kaiser Vlad, seeking to take advantage of the standoff, has assembled an army of shock…

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What Battalion Wars is

Battalion Wars is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by Kuju Entertainment and released in 2005. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo GameCube only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

For decades, the neighboring countries of the Western Frontier and the Tundran Territories have been locked in an uneasy ceasefire, with only a small Demilitarized Zone separating the two nations. However, this fragile peace is disrupted when Tundra launches a misguided pre-emptive strike on the Frontier that escalates into a global war.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Wars series

Battalion Wars is the 13th of 17 entries we hold in the Wars series. The next entry was Battalion Wars 2 in 2007. Its critic score of 78 is 8 points below the series average of 86. The highest-rated entry is Advance Wars at 100.

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How it was received

Battalion Wars holds a critic score of 78 out of 100. That places it above 59% of the 612 rated real time strategy (rts) games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 11 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Battalion Wars launched on 19 September 2005, within three weeks of Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy), Indigo Prophecy, Fable: The Lost Chapters and Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy), Indigo Prophecy, Fable: The Lost Chapters, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer