Comments on: Warzone 2100 Resurrection

By: K P R

K P R — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:42:17 +0000

I love this game, and still play it nearly every day, but beware, the AI is realy shit, and the path finding is even worse, so why have these third parties not fixed it yet, the same bugs are still there after all this time, SHAME……….

By: Heliocentric

Heliocentric — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:44:43 +0000

@Poita
this game is a pure rts, no first person shinanigans here.

But still try it, i’m kinda annoyed by certain choices in the game but its good.

By: Poita

Poita — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:45:37 +0000

I’ll give it a try. I am not into rts games but i loved Battlezone and BZ2. The idea that you can get into just about any unit and play it as a First person shooter is still a great one and i can’t believe it never took off.

By: Tom Camfield

Tom Camfield — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:37:04 +0000

Dude! you should so mention this is MacOS too! this is sweet, I used to have it on PS1 and now I can play it again on my little Mac. Thanks guys, you rock.

By: Player1

Player1 — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:28:56 +0000

Truly a winner. Used to play it on the PS1 and later when the PC version became free i downloaded it again. Then some time ago i found out about Warzone Resurrection project and gave it a go again. I can only recommend this to everyone. Still a great game.

By: rnx

rnx — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:27:06 +0000

great game back then and it aged well.
coolest part is building up your home base that you return to regularily and seeing how well your fortifications fare when the base gets attacked.
the timed missions are indeed a pain … there are cheats for those though

By: Heliocentric

Heliocentric — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 09:24:43 +0000

Oops double post.

Units that run away when hurt would be a great feature for a good amount of rts games at least as an option. That said, in narrow maps in company of heroes you can use barb wire to force a unit to scout the enemy base by “retreating” them and funneling them.

The only recent game i can think of with retreating allies is hinterland.

By: Heliocentric

Heliocentric — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 09:13:53 +0000

Damn, i totally did read this as battlezone. Zonk! In the field of open source war games has anyone played free allieigenence? Multiplayer space fighter game with base building and resource gathering npcs, fairly hostile community though.

By: Don

Don — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 09:05:06 +0000

What a fine game this was, like others I’ve still got its CD sitting in a draw somewhere. One thing I loved about it was that unlike its rivals you could arrange for your troops not to be suicidal by telling them to go for repair after taking a certain level of damage. Its a shame that at the time the technology didn’t allow the maps to be large enough to really exploit the tactical options the units allowed.

By: Heliocentric

Heliocentric — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:55:50 +0000

By: c-Row

c-Row — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:53:43 +0000

Wasn’t Machines absolutely rubbish? I seem to recall it getting panned at the time, and the demo being terrible. If it’s good I should take another look.

Overall, Warzone 2100 was easier to control and made for a better game in the end, but Machines had the far better presentation. Maybe I just like playing games everyone doesn’t seem to care about – anyone remember Uprising?

By: DigitalSignalX

DigitalSignalX — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:47:44 +0000

MYTH and MYTH II units also used elevation as a tactical advantage.. 97-99′ish.

I often confuse Battlezone and Warzone because they both were out around the same time. Never got to play Warzone 21k, but played the hell out of Battlezone. Might give it a try when the new shiny resurrection is released.