Battlezone (1998) - Shell (title screen theme)

submitted by

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XEeoeuPXq8

So hi, I’m from Europe. When this game came out, I was a teenager and I was like “oh based on what I’ve heard, I guess this is what all American military music sounds like”.

Damn, I need to figure out how to replay the game, it still sits on my shelf on place of honour. (…is “Battlezone ’98 Redux” substantially different? I appear to have it on GOG)

I remember being a little bit sour at this game, because I was so psyched up about game called Golgotha, which was another FPS/RTS hybrid game, and Battlezone made it first to the market, and I begrudgingly thought it probably had better game design, annnnnd Golgotha developers went out of business.

5
12

Log in to comment

Hot Top New Old

Battlezone is one of my all time favourites, one of the first games I paid cash for (having played the shareware version) and spent countless hours exploring and finding all the hidden secrets (first map has a lunar lander with a ridiculous techno-playing directed energy weapon on it).

Battlezone 98 Redux is basically the same game with improved graphics. All the fun of sniping enemies and stealing their ships all over again.

 reply
3

I didn’t know about that lunar lander! I’ll have to see if I can find it whenever I play it again. Very nostalgic game for me.

 reply
3

I think redux is basically the same game.

I’ve sunk so many hours into BZCC. It’s a great version of BZ2 and worth checking out.

Pretty sure both games have a pretty solid community behind them as well and there’s a bunch of mods to check out.

 reply
2

I loved Battlezone, it really captured my imagination with its secret cold war space race setting and the battles taking place on real planets in the Solar System. The gameplay was fun too, and incredibly advanced for its time (stealing vehicles in 3d before GTA 3!). Redux is the original game with remade textures and modern system compatibility fixes. They’re very faithful to the original style, though I do wish there was a way to load the original textures. Somebody’s probably hacked them in, I haven’t checked.

 reply
2

This is the only Batttlezone I know:

 reply
2
Insert image