![]() Not long ago I had dusted off my old '98 copy and played it, and it felt almost exactly the same.Ä«attlezone is a story about an alternate timeline in which the United States and the Soviet Union discovered bits of an alien metal that allowed both nations to jump start their space programs and launch secret missions to other planets in the Solar System to acquire more of this metal and control the supply. ![]() Sure, it's easy to appreciate the updates, but they aren't really so different that it feels like 18 years of improvement. This isn't a bad thing per se, since obviously it's all new to someone who never played the '98 version, but for someone like me who played and loved it, it feels more like nostalgia than a new game. ![]() The story is the same, the gameplay is the same, even the sound effects are the same. ![]() Otherwise it's exactly the same game as the version released in 1998. The graphics have been improved to take advantage of newer graphics hardware, the UI has seen some minor updates, and much of the game code has been cleaned up from the older version. ![]() I say "update" as opposed to "remake" because that's pretty much what it is. In turn, Battlezone was a game that was a remake of an old wireframe tank game from the 1980s. Battlezone 98 Redux is an update to Battlezone, released in 1998. ![]()
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