Battlezone Universe

In an attempt to get the community into an interesting discussion, a simple question:

What is the best battlezone game? Battlezone, Battlezone II, Red Odyssey, or Forgotten Enemies

My choice would have to be BZII. The graphics are much better than the original plus you can command a lot more ships than before. couple that with a rich storlina and awesome new weapons, it beats down the original with relative ease.

--not to say the original wasn't good.

--Iron Maiden

I would have to say Forgotten Enemies mainly because of the Hadeans and Cerberi makes for interesting battles.

I would say FE, IF it was made in the latest BZ2 engine version (5.1). Mainly because i think it could be SO much better in it. However i think stock BZII, just because of the atmosphere it gives. (stock stock)

Forgotten Enemies is bad-ass dude. I played it a lot and still do.

oh yeh sure its wicked, but it would be awesome if it took advantage of all the patch features. For its time however, it was the best.

i agree, FE delivers excellent graphics and sounds but there was just to much of escorting the recycler and various other minor complications. Hence why i voted for the original BZ2

And the voices weren't as good as the stock version. But then it was a community project.

well, we are a few days into the poll and it would appear that BZ2 has taken the lead with five votes with the red oddesey trailing in last with not  a single vote and FE and BZ1 tying for second with three votes each.

Bz1 was the best for gameplay, Bz2 for graphics and modability, and FE for fun. TRO was Ok, but a bit too hard.

TRO gets points for expanding on BZ1 while keeping atmosphere.
I like BZ2 better than BZ1 for the stability and mod-ability we have. We can put BZ1 in BZ2 almost perfectly in the latest 1.3, as with all other Battlezone games/mods.

Is there a mod that re-does bz1 in bz2's engine?

Not currently, but I seem to remember that someone is working on it.

Of course there is! BZClassic, Avatar's working on it!

Quote from: AHadley on October 18, 2009, 07:25:22 PM
Of course there is! BZClassic, Avatar's working on it!

Thats the one!

I'm really looking forward to it as my comp can't run BZ1 (Its too good to run the game apparently :P)

I haven't heard much about it recently... hope Av's still working on it.

oh, don't worry. I'm behind him with a hot poker  :evil:

BZ1 was fun and original.

I liked BZ2's multiplayer capabilities and I thought the tech tree was a bit more developed.  The story also had more depth.

I found FE to be very tough (yah... I can't beat the third level).  It's very in-depth, which is nice, but sometimes it is too much background and not enough playing.  It is certainly an amazing game, but I'm not sure I like it better than BZ2.

As for Red Odyssey... I haven't played that in forever.  Used to have it... don't know what happened to it.

FE is tough and you have to have a lot of time on your hands to beat it.

agreed, the eighth mission where you have that hyper slag cannon is very long[from what i have seen], but i would love to be able to put that cannon on a usual sabre, would dominate anything.

done it.  :-D

It's actually not to spectacular... :(

Quote from: iron maiden on October 20, 2009, 09:05:15 PM
agreed, the eighth mission where you have that hyper slag cannon is very long[from what i have seen], but i would love to be able to put that cannon on a usual sabre, would dominate anything.

The problem with hyper slag cannon isnt avaiable at armory.It cames with standard heavy 2 assault sabre.Once it empty,it cant be refill.I ride that sabre and note hyper slag is empty,cant get refill.Is it a normal or missing?

yes that's normal. Hyper slag is only on that mission.

Quote from: hybirdisdf on October 20, 2009, 09:57:39 PM
The problem with hyper slag cannon isnt avaiable at armory.It cames with standard heavy 2 assault sabre.Once it empty,it cant be refill.I ride that sabre and note hyper slag is empty,cant get refill.Is it a normal or missing?

you're talking about slug and if you use the greenheart variant you can refill it

Slug can be refilled, but you need an assault depot.