Battlezone II

[Purplehaze412]

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Battlezone and Battlezone II, developed by the now dead Pandemic Studios, is a FPS and RTS hybrid that places you in the battle in your own craft whilst commanding your own units.

 

In the Cold War of the 60's, Russia and The United States were locked in a space race, each attempting to outdo each other.

The NSDF (National Space Defense Force) America's Regiment of space faring men and women, were at battle with the CCA (Cosmos Colonist Army) Soviet Russia's Regiment of space faring men and women. With the important but classified discovery of Bio-Metal, Soviet Russia and The United States were at war in space to gain as much as possible. Braddock, a scientist for the NSDF. Attempts to fuse humans with Bio-Metal, In which he created the Black Dog Squadron. He had hoped the Black Dogs would wipe out the CCA. The Black Dogs rebelled and became known as the Furies, uniting the NSDF and CCA against the Furies. Forming the ISDF.

 

The main storyline of Battlezone II throws you into the boots of a new recruit from Earth. Major Cooke, who has just joined the ISDF (International Space Defence Force) thinking he would be shooting from galaxy to galaxy exploring the stars and creating history. Little does Cooke know, his commanding officer is trying to cover up his past experiements on humans using Bio-Metal. His Commander, now General Braddock is on a mad hunt to hide his failure and rid the galaxy of his own frankenstien.

 

The intro video of Battlezone II can be viewed

 

 

The Multi-player for Battlezone II is still going and has a fairly large player-base considering the time sense the game's release. Nathan Mates and Ken Miller, former developers for the game are still working on creating new patches in their spare time. Battlezone II was one of the few in it's time that allowed modding of the game for those willing to create new units, buildings, and story-lines.

 

A trailer of the community project: Forgotten Enemies, a mod that does glory to the Battlezone 1 storyline created by a collaboration of modders withing the Battlezone II community. Can be viewed

 

Full information can be found on the Wiki

 

The game can be found on Amazon for as much as $10. After over 10 years of being released, a large number of people are still playing the game. Over the years I have found myself constantly coming back to the game after short breaks. Battlezone is truly a game of it's own genre.

 

Edited for grammar.

Edited November 26, 2010 by Purplehaze412

[Meeps]

Oh yes this was pretty awesome a long time ago i still have the original copy of the game too bad the multiplay works pretty bad.