This game did everything right!

User Rating: 10 | Battlezone PC
By Marco1402 | Review Date:
For me this game is the classics of all classics. I played it at a time when i haven't played a lot of games yet. And i'm now at a moment that i think i have played too much games. But there are a few games you'll never forget because they made you want to play games in the first place. This is the best one i can imagine.

Why is it so good? First of all the graphics. They are sober to a level where you have to use your imagination. It tickles your imagination just in the right way, by giving you the atmosphere, and making you fill in the details. This goes unnoticed (you never miss anything) and made the game look top notch for its time. It helpes of course that the surface of the moon and planets are very undetailed, but they did miraculously make you feel on the surface of them.

Second, the story. From the first scene of the game, where an american soldier memorizes and contemplates on the situation he and his buddies are in, you get sucked into the story. After this scene you get dropped next to some vehicles on the desolate looking surface of the moon. Right from the start you feel that the enemy could come from every angle and you want to protect your base.
The russian-american conflict was a bit over-used in games and movies to my opinion but the story has enough twists to make you want to know what comes next. Foremost the overall atmosphere did the job for me. There is a kind of existential loneliness willing or unwillingly put into the game.

Third, the gameplay. I have played al lot of stategy games, and some are better in compexity and variety than battlezone, but never have i come by a game that had the control and feeling of mastering a situation in real time and struggling to hold off an enemy. Also have i never played a game in which my strategic action made all the difference. The posibilities and tools where kept simple which resulted in a great feeling of self accomplishment when you ended the battle succesfull. Some games where as succesfull in this as battlezone but battlezone sure was the first one. The firstperson view during battle (which sadly i've almost never seen in later strategy games) made it a realilistic experience and had my adrenaline level pumped up.

When you play the tutorial all of this doesn't shine trough yet, and maybe you can get the feeling that's this must be a difficult, boring or not so fun game. You just have to get through this.

All i have left to say is: When are game developers starting to make more games like this?

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