Rebellion remastering Battlezone (1998)

[Dreadmoth]

Following the announcement of their VR reboot of the original arcade game, Rebellion announced that they’re also working on a remaster of the 1998 FPS/RTS hybrid Battlezone:

@Rebellion

As our teaser trailer revealed, our VR version of Battlezone is very much a reboot of Atari’s 1980 arcade classic, a game we’re very fond of at Rebellion. However, we also know that a number of you are fans of the 1998 and 1999 Battlezone games released by Activision that re-imagined the franchise as a groundbreaking hybrid of FPS and RTS gameplay. Naturally when we made our announcement last week some of you asked, “But what about the newer Battlezone games? What are you doing with them?”

Well, we’ve read your comments, articles, emails and posts and we’ve seen your love for these games – so we wanted to make another brief announcement:

We’re very pleased to reveal that we’re also working on a remaster of the 1998 Battlezone for PC.

It’s still early days but when we’re ready to show you more you’ll be the first to know. All we can say for now is that whichever vision of Battlezone you love, you’ve not been forgotten!

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@Battlezone 2

Hmm… I can see it now: Manson’s Battlezone… 3.

[JohnWorfin]

That’s pretty awesome. I am sure there will be a steam sale with them upon release

[The_Scientist]

That’s cool, I still have the game in its original cd case which I fire up occasionally on a PII.

[Dreadmoth]

@A scientist

That’s cool, I still have the game in its original cd case which I fire up occasionally

Same here

Battlezone works pretty well on modern hardware with the unofficial 1.5 patch

[Dreadmoth]

Official Reveal Trailer

Looks like someone forgot to enable anisotropic filtering >_>

Battlezone 98 Redux on Steam

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EDIT: Took some screenshots of Battlezone 1.5 (with large assets) to compare with Battlezone 98 Redux:

Luna (first NSDF mission):
Battlezone 1.5 | Battlezone 98 Redux (YouTube screenshot)

CCA Czar tank:
Battlezone 1.5 | Battlezone 98 Redux

NSDF Grizzly tank rear:
Battlezone 1.5 | Battlezone 98 Redux

NSDF APC:
Battlezone 1.5 | Battlezone 98 Redux