won Computer Gaming Worlds award for the best action game of 1998. The editors wrote that it "really broke new ground", and summarized: "The graphics were drop-dead gorgeous, the multiplayer game was a blast, and the game sported a beautifully designed interface that made commanding your forces an intuitive breeze". PC Gamer US nominated Battlezone as 1998's best action game, best strategy game and overall game of the year, but it lost these three categories to Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six, StarCraft and Half-Life, respectively. The editors called Battlezone "a who-would-have-thought-it-possible melding of first-person action and real-time strategy that also boasted some of the year's best presentation and interface design". In 1998, PC Gamer declared it the 16th-best computer game ever released, and the editors called it "one of the most refreshing games of 1998 [...] so much deeper than just a graphic reworking of its twenty year-old namesake". In 1999, Next Generation listed Battlezone as number 38 on their "Top 50 Games of All Time", commenting that "using a brilliant 3D map interface, the developers [...] managed to seamlessly marry a great realtime strategy game with a hardcore action engine. The end result is one of the most compelling PC games ever released". Sequel Activision released a sequel late in December 1999, Battlezone II: Combat Commander, which involved a war resulting from the incursion of a new faction known as the Scions. Members of the Black Dogs broke away and merged with the biometal, becoming Scions. Battlezone II introduced a split single-player campaign, allowing the player to switch sides at one point and join the enemy. The sequel received generally positive reviews, but notably less so than its predecessor. See also Battlezone, 2008 remake of the 1980 game Battlezone, 2016 remake of the 1980 game For All Mankind (TV series), 2019 live action science fiction series with a similar alternate history premise References External links 1998 video games Alternate history video games Activision games Cold War video games Crave Entertainment games First-person strategy video games Multiplayer and single-player video games Nintendo 64 games Science fiction video games Fiction about the Solar System Tank simulation video games Video game reboots Video games scored by Matthew Simmonds Video games set in the 1960s Video games set on Mars Video games set on the Moon Video games with expansion packs Windows games Video games developed in the United States