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Battlezone Combat Commander Free Download Unfitgirl When the sun peeks over the hills, the resulting glare and stretching shadows is an impressive sight. The animation on your commander’s Scout ship is surprisingly good, as its wing flaps and thrusters move to accommodate even the simplest movements of the ship. That said, the incredibly poor animation of actual humans brings the quality crashing back down to earth. It’s a shame that this form of remaster is gaining traction, because like Rogue Trooper Redux (another of Rebellion’s properties) and the recent Age of Empires: Definitive Edition, focusing solely on improving the visual presentation just feels…lazy. Look, I know these development teams put a hell of a lot of work into these remasters, but to completely ignore the massive flaws in the almost 20-year-old AI and animation? It’s not good enough. Might as well have just released the original version on GOG.com or something, save some money. This hits home even more when you hear the absolutely awful sound quality throughout the game. Every line of dialogue sounds like it’s literally been phoned in, thanks to the distortion that plagues everything. It’s like running a well-used VHS through your expensive Dolby sound system. You just wouldn’t do it. Actually playing the game has its moments though, as you’re tasked with building and protecting bases, managing resources and often just going off to fight the Scion aliens. Again however, the game shows its age when the AI gets stuck on a rock that’s actually sitting in the middle of a wide open space. Unfitgirl.COM SEXY GAMES

Like many RTS games, deploying a turret often feels pointless when it completely ignores enemy tanks, purely because they’re one pixel out of its cone of vision. It has line of sight and everything, but no, it just sits and watches as the enemy tears apart your base. This level of basic AI stupidity just doesn’t have a place in gaming today. Another problem comes in the form of the controls. Again, much like every one of those games from the Nineties, they seem to use the entire keyboard layout in such a way that it just feels too complex. Building anything requires you pressing the right key for the Recycler (or whichever building creates the units you want) to bring up a menu, which requires another key press, all while possibly being in the middle of a firefight. If you want a turret, you press the various keys to build it; press the key to bring up its menu and then another to order it about. This can even include having to aim at a deployment position and pressing the spacebar. Now, imagine having several units to command, each with their own specific selection key and action menu, all while having to control your own character/ship. It’s exhausting. I do think that there is a niche for this kind of remaster, especially in an age where retrogaming is so big, but I can’t simply use that to excuse the massive flaws in Battlezone: Combat Commander’s AI, sound and controls. It does have its moments and including mod support offers fans a way to keep playing the game for a long time, but it’s not really good enough to bring in new players.

Allow players to create and share custom maps, missions, and even entire campaigns.

Old games are great. They show how this industry has evolved over the years, and how our ideas have matured to create better games and experiences. I think that it’s important to revisit older videogames to help inspire new ideas and modern improvements to those concepts. Remasters and remakes are important to help us learn from the past and build towards a better future – but only if they actually learn. Battlezone: Combat Commander is a remaster of 1999’s Battlezone II: Combat Commander that seemingly learnt nothing from the interim 20 years. Developer Big Boat Interactive has given Battlezone a great lick of paint, and the game looks great. All the models, textures and animations seemed to have been updated for the HD resolutions of the modern age. The audio has also been remastered, with the soundtrack and sound effects sounding crisper and clearer. These are unfortunately the only obvious updates that I can actually discern, and there was so much more that I think needed to be touched up for the price charged. Firstly, while the in-game visuals have been updated, the cutscenes and UI have not. The cutscenes have seemingly been lifted straight from the original game and display in the original resolution, with the remainder of the screen filled with a static screen. The UI does scale nicely to the screen resolution, but it is very blocky and difficult to navigate – especially in the menus. There’s also a distinct lack of clear audio/visual feedback for both ammunition and health, with both tucked away in the corner of the screen. Paradise Lost

I already mentioned that the audio had been updated, but this has had a negative effect on the voice acting. All of the original voice lines return from the original game, but it sounds like it was recorded in a bedroom. The voices are all at different levels and the effects layered over them to imitate radio static all sound different, despite all the characters using the same radio system. There’s not any real excuse for this either, since there is a mod on Steam Workshop that makes the voice lines sound way better. The gameplay is probably my biggest problem with Battlezone: Combat Commander. It feels exactly the same as the original game, which is a flawed RTS/FPS hybrid that did neither of the two genres well. It was incredible at the time, but we have come so far with both genres since then that I feel the omission of quality of life tweaks makes this updated version worse than the original. As a First Person Shooter, the mouse is under some weird acceleration that I can’t find a way to turn off. This makes aiming difficult, and ammunition conservation even harder. The controls in general all feel somewhat sluggish, with your character sliding around the maps. As a Real Time Strategy, controlling units and their production is unintuitive. There’s a top down mode, but controlling units in it is somehow even harder than when you’re in first person mode. Another issue I have is with the AI: all the units seem to love crashing into each other, you and the walls of the world.

Players can take on missions and progress through the story

I had to restart a level because an uncontrollable building unit became convinced that its mission in life was to walk into a power plant forever, halting progression entirely. The ones that are controllable also need hand holding throughout, since they seem to be unable to automatically target anything unless it hits them first – at which point they’ll just ignore all current orders to attack that thing. You can manually set a target and they’ll move in to attack range to deal with it, but they won’t attempt to avoid attacks or show any self-preservation of any kind. Keeping them alive becomes a chore, since you have to individually select each unit to give it orders. There are no squad commands, or any way of giving the same command to a group of units in any way. All of the commands are given through a relatively simple menu using the F-keys and number keys, but having to do this for multiple units is tedious. It would potentially help if you could reorder the units, but they are assigned to an F-key in the order they are built. Often, this means the most useful or powerful units are assigned to the hardest keys to hit. I don’t feel like Big Boat Interactive has done anything to actually remaster Battlezone II, outside of the remodelling. The game feels worse than it does without that upgrade, and I think that’s because I expect more from the better looking version. To that end, I can’t really think of a reason to play this version instead of the original, especially since the community around the 1999 sequel is still thriving. Paradise Marsh Switch NSP

I’d be very interested to see a version of this game that has tighter controls and more options for controlling units, but Battlezone: Combat Commander is not that game. Battlezone: Combat Commander is an earlier title being a sort of hybrid RTS experience. For the most part you’re riding around in vehicles, but you can also jump out to shoot things or explore and even get a bit of an overhead on the action. It’s slow to get going, but simply intriguing based on the age of the game. I hadn’t played it prior or even heard of it really, but it was an interesting title. It’s smooth to play and this remaster really does make the game feel modern. It’s not a huge revamp though it does look quite good in 4k and enhances the experience well. The smaller tactical debriefs and audio are handled in a unique way as well being shown as smaller boxes prior to starting. I thought that aspect felt retro, yet still modern by how it was displayed. The missions vary in length, but are mostly basic in design. You go around on large scale space based environment discovering some hidden secrets of the solar system. It’s actually quite grand in scale and concept, which is impressive even now. I can’t say I was too blown away by the story elements, yet I was captured by the mysterious and random appearing creatures of the darkness. They handle the suspense well when they first appear, but again it does take quite some time for everything to get going. If you’re looking for more, there’s also a multiplayer option for multiple players to battle it out.

Allowing players to immerse themselves even further into the game world

There are some settings to tweak and lobby options to enjoy the game with others however you’d like. I think that visually Battlezone: Combat Commander looks really good for the current time. Some aspects have certainly aged, but it all runs smooth and looks distinct. The vehicles are mixed in with regular foot based combat and you don’t see much of that these days. The AI isn’t very complex however being very basic in how they respond to your presence. It didn’t create too much of a challenge and you’re mostly going through the story elements. The gameplay handles well and I was impressed by the more tactical options. I wasn’t expecting to see this type of game after initially being told about the title and it was a pleasant surprise. Set in an alternate timeline where Cold War-era US and Russia have joined together in the face of an alien threat, Battlezone: Combat Commander sees the newly formed ISDF head out to colonize the solar system. As Cooke, a rookie pilot, you’re on the front lines when a new menace called the Scion appear. The story doesn’t matter too much in these games but it’s certainly neat, despite being told almost entirely in text-based mission briefings and very rarely in cutscenes or the game itself. The Battlezone series tried to create a new genre called “Action Strategy”, basically an RTS but where you control a unit on the ground, and still feel unique today since the genre hasn’t really been capitalized on. Cooke commands either a Scout craft or a Tank and can get into action-packed shootouts with Scion directly Paranormal Detective: Escape from the 90’s VR 

But also can order other units to follow him, give them orders, and eventually to build a base, defend it, and create an army like in RTS games. It really is all quite cool, especially as you can even get out of your vehicle at any time and explore the world like a first-person shooter. Done right this could’ve been the greatest game ever, especially after correcting the mistakes (mostly around difficulty) of the previous Battlezone, and it’s certainly worth your time – but a number of irritations hold it back, and Rebellion couldn’t sort them out with a remaster since they’re part of the original game. For one, Battlezone 2 really throws the player in the deep end without enough information. There’s no tutorial since you would’ve been expected to read the manual, but the odd thing is that the game takes great pains to introduce you to certain things and ease you into the base-building stuff… then it forgets to tell you important stuff, like how to get ammo, how to repair buildings, and if your vehicle gets destroyed what the heck do you do next? Die, usually. Almost all the time you’re left to figure out how things work, or what does what, or – whoops, that’s a shame, a Scion tank snuck by and annihilated the base while that menu was open. Even ignoring that, Battlezone is still tough and the Scion give no quarter. And then there are the controls. The developer, who if Wikipedia are correct were actually Star Wars Battlefront and Mercenaries creators Pandemic, did a fairly good job of giving players full RTS and Action Shooter game controls while making things as easy to use as possible

Which is to say, not very at all. It’s certainly possible to get used to them, but having to traverse multiple menus trying to work out where the Turrets are to build, while Scion are shooting the place up (there are no pause commands), made us long for a regular RTS where we can just click on it. We’d honestly much rather have less options than a confusing crapton of them. And then maybe that Tank wouldn’t have strayed into the firing line of that turret. Then again, we can’t think of another game that offers this kind of variety. Battlezone 2 missions vary wildly in objectives and things to do. Attacking bases with Mortar Bikes The first-person, out-of-tank shooting is cumbersome and frustrating. It lacks the fluidity of an FPS game, making it feel like you are stuck up in another, clunkier vehicle type. It is necessary to save your ass if your tank gets blown to bits, and allows you the time necessary to hop into something better, as well as maneuver through tighter spaces on the occasions where that is necessary, but it simply feels bad and I couldn’t wait to get into the cockpit of something every single time I had to go on foot. The A.I. is troublesome and often stupid, causing units to sometimes have trouble getting where you send them in an efficient manner which often resulted in unnecessary unit losses. And there are bugs — quite a few bugs, one or two which caused me either major setbacks, or losing a mission entirely.

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