Download Battalion Wars ROM – Nintendo GameCube Game

You shout orders at squads of toy soldiers, then switch to their perspective mid-battle to blast enemies yourself—awkward controls at first, but once it clicks, you're orchestrating hilarious little wars. Those flamethrower troops torching bunkers while nervous riflemen chatter never stops being satisfying.

Developer: Kuju Entertainment

Genre: Action-Strategy

Released: 2005

File size: 1.04 GB

Game Overview

Battalion Wars on the GameCube is this weirdly charming mix of real-time strategy and third-person action. You're leading these little toy-like soldiers into battle, shouting orders at them while occasionally jumping into their shoes to blast enemies firsthand. The controls take a second to click—holding R to issue commands feels awkward at first—but once it does, you're orchestrating chaos across battlefields.

What surprised me was how much personality the units have. Your riflemen chatter nervously when outnumbered, tanks rumble forward with satisfying weight, and watching a squad of flamethrower troops torch an enemy bunker never gets old. The camera lets you flip between a top-down war map view and controlling any unit directly, which saves missions when your AI guys decide to stand in fire.

It's got that early 2000s Nintendo quirk—the war is deadly serious to these tiny soldiers, but you're basically playing with animated army men. Just don't get too attached to your mortar team; they tend to explode a lot.