Comments on: Battlezone II: It’s Alive! Er, Still.

By: FulmenTheFinnish

FulmenTheFinnish — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 23:50:07 +0000

Hey that’s my video! I’m famous! Nobody told me that my video was linked in an article like this until 2011. :(

By: Poita

Poita — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:09:48 +0000

I loved BZ in the arcade but I never bought BZ1 because I thought I didn’t like RTS games. All the resource collecting and research jacked me off and I just wanted to get into the action ala Ground Control. One day I saw BZ1 for a pound at a car boot sale so i gave it a try and was totally hooked.
I think if it wasn’t for the great 2D Hud pointing to 3D world objects tutorials I would never have taken the time to learn the game. Once I’d been eased into how things were done though I loved it and loved both BZ 1&2 to death.
I still don’t play RTS games (cept Rome TW) because I don’t buy the way one unit/s defeats anogher. I can just sense the math deciding everything so I’m not convinced. In BZ 1&2 i really got a sense of a real world with physics and balistics being an important factor. Also, the fact that I could pilot just about any vehicle, even sniping enemies and stealing there’s was great. On top of that I could build a satalite relay station and play it top down styly, that was good at least for more organized base building.

I’m in my 40′s now and find most games to be too much style over substance, japanified, consolized and shallow. I don’t want to grow out of games the same way I didn’t want to grow out of cartoons when i became a teen. It’s getting more rare to find a game that hooks me. I wish they would make a BZ3 game.

By: EyeMessiah

EyeMessiah — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:29:49 +0000

BZ1 was the awesome. I never played BZ2 because I obtained a demo of it which didn’t feature joystick support and this irked me so much that I didn’t buy the full game for years and years despite knowing it would probably have stick support. I have the disk about here somewhere so I may give it another go and do something crazy like try and play it on my fightstick te.

By: Grey_Ghost

Grey_Ghost — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:20:44 +0000

So what we need is a BZ1-BZ2 hybrid? Probably never happen. 8(

One of my fondest memories from BZ1 is sniping the enemy harvesters and using them as transport. BZ2′s unlimited scrap & pilots, and non snipe-able harvesters sounds rather weak.

By: freepower

freepower — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:06:16 +0000

For those asking for this to be done to BZ1 -

There are two re-dos of BZ1, one with all the single player and Red Odyssey add-ons and a bunch of scenarios, and one which focuses on updating and fixing the multiplayer.

I cannot for the life of me remember where they are on the internets however, and have no time to search as I am in a library. :(

By: Sunjammer

Sunjammer — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:48:29 +0000

BZ2 totally disappointed me. BZ1 was fantastic though

By: Arnulf

Arnulf — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:23:12 +0000

Just want to add me to the BZ1 fans. Never played BZ2, though. But BattleZone was great stuff! Maybe I liked it so much because I had read Tom Wolfe before.

By: jsutcliffe

jsutcliffe — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:33:35 +0000

I would love a new copy of BZ2. I had it when it first came out, but my PC could barely get above 20fps, and was generally much lower. As such, I never got to enjoy it — I think I only got about three missions in.

By: ilves

ilves — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:19:32 +0000

ah the battlezones.. one of my faves. Rave gun anyone?

By: DMJ

DMJ — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:33:01 +0000

All hail Battlezone and its successor Battlezone 2.

Commies – in SPAAAACE!

By: Fenchurch

Fenchurch — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:52:47 +0000

Some people seem a little confused here. At the risk of being accused of SPOILERdom please let me remind everyone that the plot of Battlezone 2 followed on directly from the Red Odyssey expansion pack to the original BZ.

Even though the aesthetic is completely different and I would agree, inferior, this merely reflected an overall redesign to a much gentler space opera RTS with a few good twists along the way.

Man, thanks for linking all that Freespace stuff! I am desperate to go dig out my CDs and try some of those campaigns at some point now!

By: slight

slight — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:16:33 +0000

For those of you wishing for ongoing fan made addons for BZ1, BZ-Enhanced 1.11 was released fairly recently. It has tons of new content – maps, ships, etc. they even pulled in most of the content from BZ2 as well. Unfortunately, their website seems to be down at the moment.