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I had a lot of fun with Activision's Battlezone and especially Battlezone II. I hadn't realized they were inspired by an older game by Atari. They seem to diffe
by jolmg 5y ago
I had a lot of fun with Activision's Battlezone and especially Battlezone II. I hadn't realized they were inspired by an older game by Atari. They seem to differ in that Activision's games also include elements of the RTS and FPS genres (build your base, command your troops, walk and shoot first-person, get into battleships and drive them, etc.). They have a story mode too, if I remember right, and Battlezone II has a cheat to enter an editor for the level landscapes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlezone_(1998_video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlezone_(1998_video_game)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlezone_II:_Combat_Commander https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlezone_II:_Combat_Commande...
- gatestone 5y agoGreat games! One of the pioneers of combining RTS and FPS, if not the first one?
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- georgeecollins 5y agoWe actually were almost at alpha with the first one before Activision decided to call it Battlezone. We were going to in "Next Generation" magazine and we realized we could be on the cover if we called it Battlezone. We also considered calling in River Raid but Battlezone fit better.
- justinlloyd 5y agoYou worked right across the way from me, in Action/Sim I think. I am trying to remember where you were in relation to my desk (Civ, then I82 at that time).
- georgeecollins 5y agoI saw Zach Norman a couple years ago, he seemed well.