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Most of us have played the board game Battleship, or at least a paper version, at some point in our lives -- now the traditional game bursts forth in 3D on the PC. Battleship: Surface Thunder is actually two games in one! The king of a neighboring country falls ill and his son, Prince Dudley, takes his place on the throne. Unfortunately, the young prince mysteriously disappears while traveling and the evil Lord Drash assumes control. As his first order, Drash launches a surprise attack that devastates your surface fleet. Every ship in your fleet, with the exception of one lone battleship, is sunk. Your mission is to find Prince Dudley and restore him to the throne. Blast your way past armed fortresses, hostile airplanes, bombing zeppelins, oceangoing vessels and sea creatures in a series of increasingly difficult missions. Choose to play "classic" Battleship mode or venture into the arcade adventure for a totally new challenge and perspective on this venerable game. The classic hit-or-miss Battleship can be played on three different grid sizes; each time a target location is selected, your ship fires a missile. Each player has five ships to hide including a PT boat, submarine, destroyer, battleship and carrier. Before play begins, boats are arranged anywhere on the grid individually or automatically by clicking on a question mark icon. In the arcade adventure, you must locate Prince Dudley while destroying enemies, rescuing people on life rafts and returning them to a safe harbor. In the initial levels, you only have to worry about standard gun turrets and PT boats but, as you progress, biplanes, bombers, attack planes, zeppelins, destroyers, carriers, subs, battleships and many other types of turrets, including land-based, clutter your path. Along with the standard gun turret, you also have to worry about range, flame, combo, pop-up and mimic turrets, all with unique abilities. Be wary of mines, flame barrels and TNT barrels that can end your mission in an explosive fire show. It's not all one-sided, though, as you have a heavy arsenal of retaliatory and survival options available. Health, armor, extra lives, speed, turbo, turret, rapid ammo, sonar, depth charges, air rockets, mines, submarines, whale calls and invincibility power-ups that cure damage, gain more power and acquire new weapons are but some of the weapons you have to combat Drash's forces. Destroy prisons to release life rafts and drop them off at friendly ports while avoiding shipyards (the launch site of destroyers), sub-pens and docks (PT boats). Whether you use the fully customizable keyboard, mouse or joystick controls to steer your ship, your main goal remains clear: restore the prince to the throne and establish peace. Enable multiple camera views by using free-look mode and the mouse to change views but watch out for that enemy destroyer! As the last friendly battleship on the sea, you're on your own. Can you take the heat and defeat the enemy? Your country is counting on you!