Mirroring the movie in story brings the game to a mirror in quality: terrible.
Bad: Short as hell (less than an hour, tops), overpriced for the amount of content, no split-screen or online multiplayer, uninspiring cutscenes, weak plot, lame unlocks, only three weapons, absolutely no reason to play past achievements/trophies, gunplay feels off.
Note: I have lost respect for Konami for even releasing this game.
Battle: Los Angeles is absolutely the worst game I've played. For ten dollars on the arcade marketplace, you get a shooter with three different guns, repetitive objectives and speech, short storyline, and a complete lack of ambition. If you already bought the game, you should know that Konami completely spit in our faces. In fact, the game does not even finish itself. Those who have finished its extremely bland campaign mode (most games are around 10-15 hours long, this one is less than an hour) know already. For the sake of other victims of this complete rip-off, I will not ruin the only reason you have to play.
You get three guns the entire time: your basic assault rifle, a bolt-action sniper rifle, and a rocket launcher. The assault rifle tends to feel extremely weak, taking maybe half a clip for each enemy, while the sniper rifle and rocket launcher usually both take one shot. The aiming feels tight, even at high sensitivity.
But if the game got one thing right, it was that destruction of environment, though rather small-scale, was possible. While nothing too impressive, if you look deep for one positive thing about this game, its that in a small way, it looks like the area was attacked. But this does very little to save the game from the truth. If you have bought the game, make what you can. If not, do not purchase this game.