Avoid this by moving and turning at the same time until you can get a straight shot at them. Do not let enemy tanks get their turrets pointed at you.
Battlezone 2 invisible code#
He was not even on the Battlezone team, he just really thought the volcano should erupt, so he wrote the code for it himself. The volcano was coded into the game by Owen Rubin (the same guy who designed Major Havoc). The volcano was the source of many rumors back in the early 80s, but the programmers have continually insisted that it is just a window dressing, that there is no secret castle, alternate world, or anything else inside (not that you can reach it anyway). The background of the game is a simple mountain range that includes an active volcano. Scattered around the playing area are various geometric shapes, which serve as both obstacles and protection.
You have a radar scope at the top of your screen that gives you a basic view of the area (although you are really only attacked by one tank at a time). The only point of the game is to stay alive. Your enemies are tanks, flying saucers, and missiles. You control the action from a first person viewpoint. This is a basic wireframe 3D tank hunting game. (I need to play this soon again and write more of it I just hope it works with the modern 3D accelerators.)īattlezone was an old arcade game released by Atari Games way back in 1980. If you can find this game from among budget releases, get it! It rocks! It's definitely worth it, even if you only get it for the funny Cold War-era jabbering. =) I heard the game sold pretty poorly, but that's pretty silly because the game is still pretty good.
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Crack dot Com was working on Golgotha, which I thought was pretty innovative (combination of RTS and FPS games), but unlike Golgotha, Battlezone was actually released commercially.
Battlezone 2 invisible Pc#
The "modern PC adaptation" is pretty good, actually. (Source of trivia: Microsoft Arcade helpfiles) The game screen was all green, but they were able to make the radar display red by placing piece of red cellophane inside the screen. One BattleZone-related legend was that somene was able to drive up to the volcano, then fall into the crater, and find a castle there that they had explored. And lo and behold, next day the programmer had brought him the code! and after some time, he got tired of listening to that and told the programmer to write it, and he'd then add it to the game.
If you're interested, you can follow its progress over on the Silica Steam page (opens in new tab).Why does the volcano erupt in the game? Well, one of the programmers kept telling Ed Rotberg that he really should make the volcano active. Silica will release in Steam early access "soon," and stay there for around a year. That sounds like it'd be pretty hard to balance, but the notion of a player character storming through an RTS-mode player's legions while they look on helplessly seems very funny to me, so I hope it works.Īrena mode, meanwhile, is "a fun and crazy environment where players select their favorite unit and face off in an unbalanced FPS free-for-all". I'm kind of curious if the game's multiplayer will allow for one player to use the FPS mode while their opponent plays RTS. Prospector is the tutorial mode and Strategy is exactly what you think it is, a traditional brawl between up to three factions that "combines both RTS and FPS elements". They're called Strategy, Prospector, and Arena.
Silica says it will have three modes when it hits early access, but one of them is a tutorial. I feel like maybe the aliens have a point about the general uncoolness of humanity turning up to their planet and strip mining it at gunpoint. The two human factions are on Baltarus to harvest Balterium, a wonder crystal capable of satisfying human energy needs for centuries to come, but I get the impression the aliens are the planet's native inhabitants. Honestly? It sounds like humanity might be the jerks in this situation.
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