Battle Isle 2200

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Battle Isle 2200
Battle Isle 2
Battle Isle 2 front cover.jpg
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Developer(s)Blue Byte
Publisher(s)Accolade
SeriesBattle Isle
Platform(s)
Release
Genre(s)Strategy
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Battle Isle 2200 (released as Battle Isle 2 in Europe) is a 1994 strategy video game developed by Blue Byte and published by Accolade originally for DOS. It is part of the Battle Isle series of sci-fi themed strategy games.[1][2]

Plot[]

The player plays as Val Haris, the leader of the Drullian defence counsel on the planet Chromos in its war against the evil computer Titan-Net for control of the planet.[3]

Gameplay[]

The game is a turn-based hex-based strategy wargame. A single-player campaign is included. The goal of each mission typically involves the destruction of enemy forces and the capture of various objectives.[4]

Development[]

The game was developed by the Germany software development company Blue Byte as a sequel to their previous Battle Isle game. It was the first CD-ROM strategy game to feature 3D combat and animation.[3]

Reception[]

In April 1994, the German magazine Power Play Magazine reviewed the game positively, giving it a score of 90%.[5] The British magazine PC Review published a review of the game in its May 1994 edition in which the game was generally assessed positively, with the AI and the weather being particularly praised, and giving the game a score of 8/10 overall.[2] A review of the game in the November 1994 issue of the US magazine Electronic Games written by Bill Kunkel praised the graphics and "user-friendly" gameplay and interface, though he criticised the lack of a demo-mode and the amount of documentation that the player had to read to understand the game.[1] In January 1996 the US Computer Gaming World magazine praised the variety of the weapons systems in the game, and the "tenacious" AI, though the mission-structure of the game was criticised as "frustrating".[6] The 1996 edition of CD-ROM Review praised the game, saying that it was "a finely made game with high quality graphics, sound, and gameplay".[3]

Legacy[]

An expansion disk for the game called Titan's Legacy was released in late 1994. The expansion sped up the AI, and introduced full networked multiplayer into the game, a feature that had been previously promised but left out of the launch version of Battle Isle 2. The expansion centres on a civil war that erupts on Chromos in the aftermath of the defeat of Titan-Net, and begins with the player playing as Val Haris as he escapes from kidnappers. The expansion received 8 out of 10 in a November 1994 review from PC Review magazine.[7]

The game was re-released as part of the Battle Isle Platinum compilation in September 2000.[4]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Kunkel, Bill (November 1994). "Battle Isle 2200". Electronic Games. Vol. 3, no. 2. Deckker Publications. p. 152. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Battle Isle 2". PC Review. May 1994. pp. 62–64. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
  3. ^ a b c Princeton Multimedia Group (1995). CD-ROM review : the only guide you need to make informed CD-ROM purchases (1996 ed.). HarperPerennial. p. 257. ISBN 0062733826. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
  4. ^ a b "Battle Isle - Platinum". PC Player (in German). September 2000. p. 145. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
  5. ^ "Power Play Magazine" (in German). April 1994. pp. 24–25. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
  6. ^ Cirulis, Martin E. (January 1996). "Charge of the Light Speed Brigade". Computer Gaming World. No. 138. pp. 60–64. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
  7. ^ Benett, John (November 1994). "Titan's Legacy". PC Review. No. 37. p. 70. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
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