This is the first game in the Battlezone series. For other games in the series see the Battlezone category.
| Battlezone | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Activision |
| Publisher(s) | Activision |
| Year released | |
| System(s) | Microsoft Windows |
| Expansion pack(s) | The Red Odyssey |
| Preceded by | Battlezone 2000 |
| Followed by | Battlezone II: Combat Commander |
| Series | Battlezone |
| Genre(s) | First-person shooter, Real-time strategy |
|---|---|
| Modes | Single player, Multiplayer |
| Rating(s) |     |
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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Main menu for the game.
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Satellite map of the game
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Screenshot of the game.
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Table of Contents
- Red Arrival
- Eagle's Nest 1
- The Relic Discovered
- An Unexpected Connection
- Escape from Mars
- Behind Enemy Lines
- A Nasty Surprise
- Wrangling the Fleeing Herd
- The Race Is On
- Bring It Home
- Flying Solo
- Total Destruction
- The Three Beacons
- United We Fight - United We Die
- Strike At The Heart
- Tapping The Core
- The Ultimate Quake