Battle: Los Angeles Review  Short, unremarkable, and overpriced,
Battle: Los Angeles is a shooter to be avoided.  Battle: Los
Angeles is just 45 minutes long. This shooter-flavored
advertisement for the alien-invasion movie that landed in
theaters earlier this month is one of the slightest games to
ever hit Xbox Live Arcade. For 800 points, you get a simplistic,
easy single-player campaign that even a shooter rookie can blast
through in under an hour. And that's it. There are no
multiplayer modes, no challenge levels, and no extra frills of
any sort to hold your interest a moment longer than it takes to
finish the campaign and reach a "Thanks for Playing" message
that comes off more like an "LOL Thanks for Giving Us Your
Money" parting shot.  Even if the gameplay in Battle: Los
Angeles were great, it would be difficult to throw out any
laurels for a $10 game that lasts less than half as long as the
movie on which it is based. But you don't even have to
contemplate that value proposition, because this is a bla