Herzog Zwei

Birth of the RTS genre

User Rating: 9.5 | Herzog Zwei GEN

By eberkain_basic | Review Date: May 17, 2006

This was one of the best games on the Genesis. You play as a giant robot that can transform into a jet. The goal of every map is to get to the enemy headquarters and blow away their base.

Your base can build friendly units such as tanks, gun turrets and infantry. After you build a unit, you fly over a friendly base and pick up the built unit and then you can drop it anywhere in the field. While carrying the unit you can reprogram it with orders to give it a use once you let go.

Strategic points throghout the map give you the chance to launch assaults against the enemy base from a closer location. You take over the bases by making infantry and giving them a special order.

All this sound fimiliar? Yep, this game helped create the formula for modern RTS games.

Other Helpful Reviews for Herzog Zwei

• Rating:9

  Herzog Zwei (gen) by far the most underrated game in the history of gaming by so called "profesional" reviewmeisters.

  By spiketyrrell | Review Date: Nov 19, 2005 | GEN

  Hezog Zwei was partly to blame for my bad grades throughout middle school. I remember playing this game against friends for hours and hours. Simply put this game was before its time, a revolutionary game that was under... Read Full Review

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• Rating:9

  A great strategy game with an exciting pace

  By ShiningPhantasy | Review Date: Mar 11, 2007 | GEN

  Herzog Zwei is a very unique mix of game-play styles, especially for a game released in the early era of the Sega Genesis, a console whose software library at the time was composed by-in-large of platformers and two-dime... Read Full Review

  2 of 2 users found the following review helpful