Just bought for 99p from eBay...

monochrome_blue 28 Jan 2005 12:39:52 538 posts
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... the "original" PC battle zone.

/remembers the wonder that was the FP RTS game

Monochrome
pjmaybe 28 Jan 2005 12:42:18 70,666 posts
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Gawd I've still got that. I really liked it!

Peej
Nemesis 28 Jan 2005 12:49:22 20,312 posts
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Wasn't the follow-up really shite, though.

Excellent graphics, meh everything else.
Retroid Moderator 28 Jan 2005 13:15:21 45,464 posts
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/Swoons

Excellent game! \o/

/Loaned his copy out, bastard moved country...!

pjmaybe 28 Jan 2005 13:17:53 70,666 posts
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Nemesis wrote:
Wasn't the follow-up really shite, though.

Excellent graphics, meh everything else.

Agreed - the original was very cool - suffered from a horrible control system but the dynamics of the game were pretty good...

Peej

Retroid Moderator 28 Jan 2005 13:39:53 45,464 posts
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'twas phenomenally cool to pick up the turrets and plop them down on the sides of a valley, then watch them come to life firing everything they had at the yet-unseen enemy.

/Regrets only getting to Titan (or so) before loaning & losing

What was the first mission with (I think) troop / colony sections to place at the start of the map?

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