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A Th e Clackamas Print game was a B-4 movie, I By Steven W eldon The Clackamas Print T h e ten sio n is high. You smell* the ie a r in jy o u r dpposi-j tiorij as y ou call o u t I D -3i”| an d i im p atien tly iwait fpr thei response. If th e response is hit,? elation fillsiyour h eart asT ouarej one step closer to e h m |n a tin ^ you< o p p o n en t’s piece. W ith a peheii-ands-papen gam p cre . sm all grin, your epem y exclaims j ated’ b efbrf W orld W a r d , the B radley C o m p a n y | “miss,” and you begrudgingly ’ M ilto n place a w hite, plug in to your published Jthe gam e ini 1943,1 b o aid . T h d .m i n d ^ m e c o n r i n - an d jin ues las the! adversary attem pts into« th e board gam e we knowj to e ia c t re f erige o n their previ-j an d ; love, 1 O riginally known! as ‘^Broadsides, th e G am e -ofj ously h it gam e pieces. | “B attleship” is the) clas-/ Naval Strategy,” gam eplay hasj sic’ /gam e "o f; guessing^ stratp n o t’Changed m u ch over the lash ' egy an d war. O riginally a century. Four grids are used to BATTLESHIP ÜMt. T h p virn ^^B M d esh ^co versp ta ks to the gaitoes longevity^í^dpi^ulhritylTÓriginallyfpublished as a, pentii, andpapergame in 1943iby Milton-Bradley, it is1 stÜl^played;today.^ Abandon ship; seems entirely forced. It’s Hike h e aced@clackamas.edu Wednesday, May 23, 2012 I planned opt a. big b u d g et'sd -fir c< • ” place ship pieces pnd keeb tra c k tie-ins. O th e r variations in clude o f shots fired a n d ^ h e L iry play-1 .m obile editions,! v id eo gam e H 'td successfully'Sm k’ ^eath o f e d itiô rif à r iî th en 'ëw ësty ërsîo n their o pponents’ ships wins the! incllides islands in w hiçh capi game . __ _________________ 1 turefa m an! p ieces are i nvol ved T here are a few ways to play an d th e b o ard uses n o p -trad i- “ Bat ties hip,’’.and> little k n o w n tiorsaF'hexagonal 1 tiles. O f f o f, w ay 'is called ‘SALVO.’ In*the th e {board gam e realm, a gam e dictionary,/ th e term hs .defined related to peer p o n g was devel as a sim ultaneous, discharge op ed as a j spinoff. Battleshots o f firearm s.’ T h is ’isexactly tne“ involves tHe sam e “B attleship” gameplay, excepts an o p p o n en t . objdct’o f tJieB attle^hip edition ;• o f the game. D u rin g a players’ fires th eir {ping-pong ball over tu rn , the n u m b er o f spaces th e dividing piece, to attem p t to th e ball in to ;a cup. called oujLcprresponds id how «in jc O n ce all d rin k cups m any ships the attacker has. are gone, gam eplay Five ships allow five sh o ts ,a n d is over an d th e loser so on. U is p r o b a b l y a ï Î t t l e """Awhile" t h C glm e, play buzzed. itself has n o t changed , P lay in g B a ttle sh ip ”, sincepapeigridsbecam ey ta^es unjder 30 m in u tes to p lasfjc' h p afd "grids,T ' coniplete Usually, w ith an even there have been som e variants. In A 9 7 7 , e le h ro n ic faster setu p like SALVO it c a n 'b e evén faster. Battles are “B attleship” - h i t / shelves^ an d i n i 989, talking “ Battleship” enjoyable J a n d can e v e n e n tic e friendly rivalry an d tense situ m ade it^jJjehut./ In 2012, elec- tronic “B attleship” was rein ations. C h eatin g ; is very easy, vented for the release 40T the- however, as on e q u ick look feature-film /ndVy, in theaters^ could blo sf th e cover o f y our an d there are added special o p p o n en t’s en tire fleet. A ll the while, “Battleship” stands as a w eapons for gameplay. garde that! transcends time' as D ifferent brands have been its prem ise is relevant in every placed on th e “B attleship nam e,” w ith “Star W ars” and tim e period. |1 Piijates ;o f the?; C aribbean” as AÀV movie sinks in theaters want commanding a fleet ®f ships; After getting tased by the cops action film and, through whatever for trying to break into a closed Movies based on games have; circumstances, had to sell it to the ' convenience store in order to fetch for Ithe m ost part,, followed ,4 highest bidder in order tdfeeepjtl; the chicken burrito needed to win pattern o f [being pretty terrible; afloat. P u n m o st certainly jintend-J the heart o f Samantha, played by We’ve had everything from “Super ed. In this case, the highest bidden ; Brooklyn Decker, he finds himself Mario B ro srto “Mortal Kombat,” w asH asbro who, apparendy also in the Navy w here;lo andbehold; “Cliie” to “¡Tomb Raider” and the bought the rights to “Batdeship.” I her father is a decorated admiral T he movie takes its time get played by Liam Neeson. O h, how list goes on. W ith a game fran chise, its usually not that difficult ting out to sea, but before it does the mighty have fallen.Long story to stick with the {subject matter, youm ust endure a barrage o f face- , short, things happen and three palm-worthy clichés. A lexander. ships find themselves face, to lace when your subjectjmatter | Skarsgárd plays the high- with the least interesting o f all is a board game? W ell/L/t achieving hard-ass, known alien races and moments Stone , Hopper? latef the batde robs Alex o f his yo u 'd o n ’t. You waste mil while Taylor brother and idol and he is thrust lions o f dollars and worse than Kitsch plays his into comrpand, leaving m e think that, more than two fidi hours of ”er brodieh Alex ing ^ O K n h '..; a useless character youhg- m y time! . W hile “Real Steel” Jn a y as Hopper, a character straightout; of I had no attachment to is dead. well have called itself “Rock’em every bad movie since the ‘70s and I think I feel something L n o p e ,.. Sock’em Robots: T he Molde,” thè someone who clearly exhibits the neverm ind. It wasjust headhunt.” worst decision making skills pos T he battle scenes are jufct about tide for Peter Berg’s film ‘adaption o f the classic Milton Bradley game sible. Just the kind o f person you’d • the only redeeming part o f the movie, b ut Sadly, they are pock marked by th e appearance o f m any other forgettable and utterly useless characters. ‘ N ot the least .of which is ’a Jeff G oldbloom -« esque scientist, played by Ham ish Linklater, ;circa*jTndep|ndence T ^ ^ c © m p le te “Viddi “rio n se m i^ ”*' science banter. Popisinger Rhianna is also c a stjn th is ¿movie as a gun* her [named Cora 'Raikes, and to m y {surprise her performance was actually the- most enjoyable. Looking deeply at this movie, the only thing I managed to real ly enjoy were the special effects. While not , many? of the effects led to anything that made sense, ‘^BdttleshipC the hoard game, makes fo r d boring movie viewing &#>?;■ they did itiwell. T he detail o f die rience when translated t& the big screenl Thfe iMovie opened May 18. 1 alien ships, beautiful explosions an d reasonable renderingsvof naval By James Duncan Design Editor 1 ArtrpLulture having m y spleen run through a cheese grater would still able to sitting through this movie again. j ships werepleasing to theeye, but through all o f the special' effects the story keeps interfering and taking away from the whole thing. I mean the movie was like a shard of colored glass, interesting to look at and even kind o f pretty, but you wOtjldht want to jab it into your eyes for two hours. It seems like to 2 oirr of 5 stars R ? Dine-I ite r in e Open 7 Hays a bdeek ★ S p e c i a l s / . | j ■y C served with 3 norp-9prft Weekdays ITam~3pm safad \ S ta ríín g to ^ ^ F ri.j1 o m -9 ;3 Ö p m I 2 p m -9 ;3 0 p m Ê *-Son: * ï2 p m -9 p m
