Monday, September 10, 2007

Abandon Monday #1: Battle Isle 2

With Battle Isle 2 and Burntime at first place at our Abandon Monday voting, I had to choose which game will be presented. It was a hard decision but then I chose the game with which I spend the most time: Battle Isle 2.
But why is this game that special? Well, its simply a strategy game, in which you can move your units at a hexagonal grid. Back in 1993 the graphic was pretty good. Later there was also an CD version which was packed with some prerendered 3D sequences of the units.
But believe me, in the case you like strategy games and start to play Battle Isle 2 you will spend a lot of time with fighting the Titan Net. To cut a long story short, there is a computer net which went insane and started to attack the humans. You are the big strategist and – of course – only you can help to defeat Titan Net. To do this you have access to the same units as your opponents have. There are about 50 of them. Together with the 24 maps (20 for the campaign and 4 multiplayer maps) this means a depth, which you will hardly find again. Even now, the technical aspects of the game are not contemporary but definitely convenient.

I also like realtime strategy games but the turn based Battle Isle 2 is the best strategy game I ever played. Believe me!

Producer: Blue Byte
Publisher: Accolade, Blue Byte
Year: 1993
Genre: Strategy




1 Kommentare:

Sean said...

The game looks familiar, but I don't remember it. The plot sounds strangely like the Terminator series.