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'''Battlezone''' is (as the naming suggests) a critically acclaimed remake of [[Battlezone|the 1980 arcade game of the same name]] by [[Atari]]; it got released by [[Activision]] for [[Microsoft Windows]] on [[February 28]], [[1998]]. Aside from the name and presence of tanks, this game bears little resemblance to the original, as Activision remade it into a hybrid of a tank simulation game, a [[first-person shooter]] and [[real-time strategy]] game.
'''Battlezone''' is (as the naming suggests) a critically acclaimed remake of [[Battlezone|the 1980 arcade game of the same name]] by [[Atari]]; it got released by [[Activision]] for [[Microsoft Windows]] on [[February 28]], [[1998]]. Aside from the name and presence of tanks, this game bears little resemblance to the original, as Activision remade it into a hybrid of a tank simulation game, a [[first-person shooter]] and [[real-time strategy]] game.
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==Legacy support==
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This is the first game in the Battlezone series. For other games in the series see the Battlezone category.

Box artwork for Battlezone.
Box artwork for Battlezone.
Battlezone
Developer(s)Activision
Publisher(s)Activision
Year released1998
System(s)Windows
Expansion pack(s)The Red Odyssey
Preceded byBattlezone 2000
Followed byBattlezone II: Combat Commander
SeriesBattlezone
Genre(s)First-person shooter, Real-time strategy
ModesSingle player, Multiplayer
Rating(s)ESRB EveryoneUSK Ages 16+ELSPA Ages 11+OFLC General 8+
LinksBattlezone (Activision) at PCGamingWikiBattlezone (Activision) ChannelSearchSearch

Battlezone is (as the naming suggests) a critically acclaimed remake of the 1980 arcade game of the same name by Atari; it got released by Activision for Microsoft Windows on February 28, 1998. Aside from the name and presence of tanks, this game bears little resemblance to the original, as Activision remade it into a hybrid of a tank simulation game, a first-person shooter and real-time strategy game.

Legacy support

Currently, this game is more or less considered abandonware; however, there was a website devoted to it at one time. Battlezone1 Community was, up until 2009, a long-standing community site which supported the original Battlezone 1.4 game, along with its The Red Odyssey expansion pack, and the 1.5 patch which fixes many of the original's bugs and adds DirectX 9 support - and the Battlezone 1.5 patch not only has many anti-hacking features to eliminate issues which plagued the original in online play, but it is also compatible with more modern Microsoft Windows operating systems and hardware. There is also an archived discussion/development thread headed by Ken Miller, one of the original Battlezone programmers, who was working on the aforementioned 1.5 patch (and finished it in 2017).

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