Battlezone II: Combat Commander
Battlezone II: Combat Commander is a video game that consists of 2 releases
When a surprise attack on Pluto reveals a modern evolution of an old foe, you must fight to defend your home from an enemy which might not be as straightforward as it initially seemed.
Battlezone II: Combat Commander, ofter abbreviated to BZII or BZ2, is a game developed by Pandemic Studios and published by Activision in 1999. The game is a sequel to 1998's Battlezone. Like the game before it, Battlezone is a hybrid tank shooter, a combination of first-person shooter and real-time strategy. The player pilots various futuristic vehicles. Battlezone II features two playable races, the ISDF (humans) and the Scions (Aliens).Battlezone II is set in the 1990's. At the end of the Cold War between America's NSDF (National Space Defense Force) and the Soviet Union's CCA (Cosmos Colonist Army), the two foes were forced to work together in order to combat their common enemy, the Furies. A new celestial body was discovered, dubbed the "Dark Planet" because of its hidden nature, and even build a small facility there as well. Shortly after the loss of the Voyager-2 probe to a missile attack, contact with Cerberus Base on Pluto was lost. A whole fleet of ISDF troops was dispatched to find out what happened, including Lieutenant John Cooke, who Battlezone II's storyline revolves around.
Battlezone II has two alternative endings available to the player, the ISDF ending and the Scion ending. The ISDF ending concludes with John obeying his superior's command and destroys the Scion craft. Braddock informs him that Manson and his men survived, but they refused to obey, saying that Braddock is a traitor to the AAN. Cooke inserts a small team under his lead and destroys the base. Manson's body is found at the outskirts of the base. They also find out that Burns has escaped
In the Scion ending, instead of shooting the Scion as commanded by Braddock, Cooke orders the Tug carrying Burns to follow the Scion. After leading him through an underground tunnel, the Scion confirms that she is Shabayev. She was found by the Scions on Bane after the crash and explains that Braddock ordered the attack on the drop ships to silence them. She also reveals to John that the Scions are actually humans who have been fused together with bio-metal. Their ultimate goal is not to destroy Earth, but to bring the enlightened Cthonian culture back to humanity. John is transformed into a Scion to better aid their cause.
Before the game was released, it was met with a lot of enthusiasm, which was quickly dissipated after receiving negative reviews because the game included out-of-the-box issues and over the top system requirements to run the game. The multiplayer was broken and was not fixed until patch 1.1. All of these problems lead to a lot of negative publicity while it was on the shelf. Despite this, the game still manage to gain some lukewarm reviews.
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