Posted on: June 16, 2016
Grudgeal
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Still the same good old frustration.
Battlezone 98 is, and remains, a classic and what most people will probably think of as the creator of the "commander amongst his troops" genre. Set in an alternate universe Cold War where the space race has turned into a space war between the US and Russia over a magical substance called 'bio-metal', Battlezone sees the player take command of a series of battlefields from within their trusty vehicle, driving back the dirty commies/capitalist pigs from map after map. The remaster is incredibly faithful to the old game, with some updated graphics and the rest of the game untouched. This, of course, means that all the problems of the old game is still there. The physics engine is still a riddle of the ages, your vehicle still handles like a drunk bucket, your ammo and health bars deplete in less than a minute and leave you camping out for five minutes waiting for the armory to replenish you, the computer still cheats like a one-eyed bandit that summons enemy waves from the ether and your allied ships are still as reactive and intelligent as a blind turtle on sleep medication. The game features little to no tutorials and your objectives can at time be painfully oblique, helped not at all by the fact that you are pretty much forced to be everywhere at once and babysit your base (or alternatively leave it to be shot to pieces by the endless waves of foes) while slowly progressing through the level objectives. At its best, Battlezone is a very fun command-your-troops-from-the-front strategy set in a fascinating setting, where you glide through the landscape with your trusty wingmen dealing death by anti-tank missiles. At worst it's a game that will cause you to obsessively save and load (or just restart the level) every twelve seconds as you struggle against the interface, the terrain, your allies, and an at time altogether punishing gameplay. I still love this game, but picking it up now made me realize just what an incredible improvement Sacrifice was to the genre.
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