Battlezone II: Combat Commander

Battlezone II is a system developed by the U.S. development studio Pandemic Studios 1999 PC game.

Game Description

Battlezone II represents an unusual up to the present day genre mix of first-person shooter and building strategy game

The player fights during the game on different planet, an unknown alien race. He acts for a short time on foot but mostly he finds himself on board one of the many selectable hover tank, mech robots or service vehicles again. He can command both your units and enemy ships take over. The missions consist, inter alia, from base building and defense as well as attack and rescue operations. The varied planetary surfaces and a variety of different ships, weapons configurations and mission objectives contribute an important part to the game.

Reception

Despite good reviews in the trade press, which praised the high quality graphics, the variety of the game as well as the number of innovations, remained the game, like its predecessor, Battle Zone, denied the predicted success.

History of development

The predecessor Battlezone was released in early 1998, Activision. The US-based development studio Pandemic Studios then developed in 1999 Battlezone II as his successor, which was re-released by Activision.

Battlezone II was developed so that it is the integration of the user community created extensions, so-called mods possible. Carey Chico, Art Director of Battlezone II gave as a reason to, " Well, the goal of all our effort what to Provide for a strong mod community to keep the game going. Seems like it 's working. " However, all these extensions " unofficially ", ie they are not sold by manufacturers Pandemic Studios, but offered at various community sites for free download. Among the most famous and also most extensive enhancements include Forgotten Enemies and Flesh Storm, both involve a continuation of the original story and contain a variety of innovations, such as new planetary surfaces and other alien races.

Support

Following the end of official support took two Pandemic employees in their free time to support and still produce unofficial patches.