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The storyline of Battlezone uses both real and fictional characters and events. It takes place starting in 1952 when a storm of meteorites hit the Bering Strait. The meteorites were investigated by both U.S. and Russian scientific expeditions for analysis. The scientists spent years analyzing the meteorites. Scientists discovered they were made of an alien substance we called "bio-metal 11", and that they had data hidden within them which allowed the researchers to manufacture fantastic new military weapons and vehicles capable of interplanetary operations!

Then in 1956, a U.S. spy code name "Kino" infiltrated a Soviet facility and confirmed that the Soviets had indeed discovered the same facts as we did. In fact, the Soviets were building their own "Cosmo Colonists Army" of similar fantastic vehicles to go and find more bio-metal 11 in outer space!

Memorandums go back and forth in the U.S. Government throughout 1958 about the progress and discoveries. Finally, President Dwight D. Eisenhower publicly announces the formation of NASA, but secretly NASA is only a cover for the formation of the NSDF (National Space Defense Force) under the command of General George Collins. The NSDF and CCA launch a space race to find bio-metal.

Single Player Campaign

As a commander in the NSDF, you begin your Training on Earth's moon, and from there you will travel to Mars, Venus, Io /eye-oh/ (a moon of Jupiter), Europa (a moon of Jupiter), Titan (a moon of Saturn), and ultimately to "Achilles" a fictional moon of Uranus, to which the game offers a sensible explanation. (This is not a spoiler website, I'm not telling the ending.) The campaign encompasses 17 NSDF (American) Missions against the CCA (Russians), and 8 CCA (Russian) Missions against the Black Dog squadron (Americans). It involves managing resources, building units and structures on-site (flexible choices), commanding units against the enemy forces, while protecting your own Recycler (the primary production unit) and your other assets. While Battlezone is primarily first-person, it also includes third-person and Satellite viewpoints. In addition to the game's missions authored by Activision, many aftermarket Missions are available as addons. Below is a Base from Battlezone Mission #1.

This is a small Moon Base Click here for another version of this image showing more details.
Click here for a Flash slideshow of Battlezone Mission #1

Multiplayer Battlezone

Multiplayer Battlezone includes support for Local Area Network play and Online server connection play. There are two types of Multiplayer Games: Strategy, and Deathmatch (DM). Strategy play involves a strong similarity to the single player campaign, except that your chief opponent is a thinking human being. Beginning with 1-5 respawning lives and your Recycler, the goal is to defeat your opponent down to zero lives and/or zero assets forcing a surrender. Deathmatch play involves arena type playing fields called "maps" where both the player ans his vehicle respawns an unlimited amount of times (unless a match limit is set) and melee versus 1-7 other opponents in an all out brawl. Of course, the Host may set some rules to play by, and the Community as a whole recognizes certain etiquette, but overall Deathmatch is a carefree load of fun and Strategy is a careful waging of war.
Here is a cool video of a Deathmatch game by ß§«Chaos_X of the Black Sheep Clan.

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