Where was your BZ2 copy bought?

[AHadley]

Hey, I bought a copy just last weekend! Wasn't new, but it proves that BZ2 can still be bought.

[TheJamsh]

Can indeed!

Mostly second hand stylee though. although there is a company called 'sold-out software' that sell the classics.

My copy of BZII was bought like a legend, accidentally found it in a shop for £2. didnt have the money at the time, so i traded my 'Porsche Challenge' PS1 game for it! best thing i ever did.

[AHadley]

I've got one of them... kinda. I don't think Sold Out ever did BZ2, wasn't it xplosiv and Empire Interactive that did that?

[tFighterPilot]

I got it for my 13th birthday back in 2000, and was amazed by the graphics. I was also amazed by the great fps after I bought a brand new computer with a state of the art TNT2 graphics card. 

[Zero Angel]

Cool, in 2000 I had BZ2 running off of a (then) rather good Win98/Athlon/256MB/TNT2 rig -- It was a rather immersive graphical experience, compared to other games at the time.

[AHadley]

I'm still amazed by BZ2's graphics, given that it runs on the same engine as BZ1 - I think

[GSH]

Nope, BZ2 does not use BZ1's graphics engine. It's closest to the Dark Reign II graphics engine, though they diverged at least a year before BZ2 shipped.

-- GSH

[technoid]

I've got one of them... kinda. I don't think Sold Out ever did BZ2, wasn't it xplosiv and Empire Interactive that did that?

I don't know about Empire Int., but I bought a backup copy of BZII from Xplosiv off the shelf at Frys Electronics a few years ago.  And they do not sell BZII (nor BZI) anymore, not since a year after I bought my copy.

[Nielk1]

The graphics engine of DR2, the logic of BZ1, and bits of various other code from DR2, BZ1, and something called Interstate '76.

[OvermindDL1]

Okay, this really needs to be split into a new topic... done. 

How many here bought their copy new (as in, within a few months of the games release and actually 'new')?
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[General BlackDragon]

used book store in 2003

[TheJamsh]

I dont think i had pocket money when it first came out

i had the demo! my uncle gave it to me on a PC magazine disc. i LOVED it. thought the graphics and everythign was amazing. the demo was such a good teaser. lost that shortly after though

Then i got the game a few years ago, loved it, tried to mod but couldnt. Then i found the bzuniverse and bz2md sites. and as they say, the rest is history.

[Warfreak]

Mine is a great hand-me-down.

One of my Dad's co-workers gave him BZ1 and he got addicted immediately.
After passing that he bought BZ2 and after passing the campaign handed it to me as at the time our internet sucked.

Hell, he sees me online today and is AMAZED how long we've kept it alive. The only reason i found the community was alive was that I found 1.2 servers when I FINALLY clicked "multiplayer" tab. That sent me looking for the patch and here I am.

[AHadley]

Okay, this really needs to be split into a new topic... done. 

How many here bought their copy new (as in, within a few months of the games release and actually 'new')?
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I was wondering who had made me a new thread... got confused for a minute, though I was sure I'd posted this inside a topic...

*wave to Warfreak's Dad*

I was introduced to BZ2 by a friend of mine called Tom... he moved house before I got my copy, and when I eventually found him I gave him a disk with FE on... don't know if he ever got into it, though. Hey, you never know, he could be one of you lot! How's about that for wishful thinking?

[General BlackDragon]

u can dl the demo like....i dunno, alot of places. Hehe