Battle Stations Blockade Review (PlayStation 5)

by Jim Smale · December 13, 2023

For this Battle Stations Blockade Review, Take command of a gunboat on an urgent mission to intercept stolen military intelligence and destroy the enemy’s advanced weapon systems! Battle Stations Blockade is an intense 3D rail shooter presented in voxel style. Receive orders and then set out on treacherous waters as you control a pair of gun turrets, shooting down aircraft, destroying boats and battleships, clearing mines, taking out paratroopers, and more.

Battle Stations Blockade Review Pros:

Decent voxel-like graphics.
540.3MB Download size.
Platinum trophy.
You get the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 versions of the game.
Four difficulties.
Stick sensitivity slider.
Three game modes – campaign, Co-op play, and head-to-head.
On-rails shooter gameplay.
Opening tutorial level.
You earn points, health, and combos when killing enemies.
Different enemy types like subs, boats, paratroopers, and missile launchers.
You rank up as you go through the game.
Combo counter.
You have a radial menu for eight guns, all different ones like mines, lock-on missiles, scatter guns, and machine guns. You can swap between them whenever.
You can hold down the shoot button.
Has a cool text pop-up where it comes out of the water.
You can adjust the game speed.
Enemies will flash red when they are in range.
Arcade presentation.
Local leaderboards.
Cool-looking locations.
In-game cutscenes and interactions.

Battle Stations Blockade Review Cons:

Cannot rebind controls.
Levels go on for way too long and always outstay their welcome.
No online leaderboards.
Hit detection is not great.
You just hold down the button and move around occasionally as you get your health back so it’s never a problem on the lower difficulties.
The harder difficulty is more because of the controls and hit detection woes.
No way to see the level progression.
Takes a while to learn the weapon types.
The ranking up seems kind of redundant and unnecessary as it does not give anything.

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