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Customer Reviews of Battlezone 2

Reasons it's better than BZ1:

- Better AI. The units seem smarter and they get out of your way most of the time. There is less bumping around.

- You don't get killed if you walk into a tank.

- The unit grouping is SO much easier than before. In fact, I've never seen it successfully work in BZ1.

- Sniping is harder to do and you can't snipe everything. Pretty much just the hovercraft. Not tanks or slow-moving stuff.

- Resources are more plentiful so you can worry more about fighting and defending.

- You can cue up guys so you don't have to go back to your factories every time you want to make another guy.

- You can have WAY more units than before. I think it used to be 10 mobile guys and 10 turrets. This time you can have a total of 100 guys!!

- Graphics are way better, although you need a powerful PC and video card to utilize it.

- Repair trucks so you can repair guys and re-ammo guys out in the field. They also are pretty smart about automatically fixing guys. No need for the armory method.

- You can configure your factories to make vehicles with more powerful weaponry built-in so you don't have the hassle of the manually doing it with armory... which sukked.

- The map mode is way useful. See your guys from above and tell them where to go and what to attack. You also get it early in the game.

- 1 type of service pod instead of 2. It replenishes health AND ammo at the same time.

- Play a melee against the computer!!! BZ1 couldn't even DO that!

- 2 very destinctively different races. The ones in BZ1 were pretty close to being the same.

I'm sure there is more, but I'm running out of space. Get this game and play it with your friends. It's very different from a normal RTS, but that's what I like about it.

Boring, zzzzzzzz
The first time I played this game, it seemed pretty cool, but the longer I played the more I realized that the interface was no good, there is no way to control all of your guys at once, you have to go to their positions to give orders, basically if they are under attack, they're dead by the time you get there.
Another thing is that the skirmish mode stinks, there are only 5 maps and you can't choose what race you want to be for each map. Plus, on some maps, the AI is completely stupid, and on some it is just the opposite. This game is just plain boring, it gets on your nerves a lot. If you like strategy, stay away from this game, get Red Alert 2 instead.

Just thought I'd try and tell the truth
A lot of good reviews--two perfect 5 star reviews even. Amazon.com gets to choose which reviews are "featured", so that's not really much of a surprise.

You should definitely read more reviews. The graphics are okay, but the design of the graphics in this game are considered to be very cartoonish by many. Bright oranges, glowing blues, and odd color assortments await you in this game. Do yourself a favor and search for the original Battlezone. That was a game I played so many years ago I can't even remember when, but I remember clearly the missions and the specific gameplay elements because it was so good. The story made more sense, the missions didn't tell you exactly what to do (you had to figure it out, which was the fun part), and the overhead map was accessible from the push of a button rather than getting out of your vehicle all of the time. To summarize what these reviews (on the first page) are all leaving out:

- You'll have to get out of your vehicle constantly. Because the drivers of other vehicles just aren't smart enough to do the job themselves. You'll also have to do this to access the tactical map, the only way of ordering units around without actually driving there (by which time the units in question will have already been destroyed, too little, too late)
- Missions aren't involving, and the story doesn't continue from the original game. In short, there's really not much of a story, as you'll find yourself doing strange things that you've been ordered to do for no apparent reason
- Interface is cluttered, buttons rearrange themselves based on the order that you built things, and it's a nightmare finding the right keys to press during the heat of battle. In many games, the only deciding factor of whether you'll win or lose is if you find the right keys fast enough