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Battlezone: Combat Commander

First-person shooter and real-time strategy with tanks and base building

Big Boat Interactive · Published by Rebellion · Released Mar 1, 2018

ActionStrategy

Reviews
Very Positive
90% of 956
Recent reviews
Not enough recent
Playing now
8
right now
Steam Deck
Playable
Last update
7 years ago
May 29, 2019

Metacritic: 68/100 (critic reviews)

What is Battlezone: Combat Commander?

This remaster of Battlezone II combines first-person combat and real-time strategy in a solar system threatened by aliens. Across 24 campaign missions, you fight, command units, collect bio-metal, and build defenses and facilities for a joint US-Russian force. Multiplayer includes deathmatch and cooperative matches.

For you if...

  • +you enjoy collecting resources and building battlefield defenses
  • +you want campaign missions and multiplayer battles

Not for you if...

  • you prefer shooters without unit command or base building
  • you want strategy without first-person combat

What players say

90% of 956 reviews are positive

Players praise the shooter-strategy mix and updated visuals. Players critical of the campaign report missions stalling and frequent reliance on quicksaves.

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Battlezone: Combat Commander

Battlezone: Combat Commander system requirements

As published by the developer.

Minimum

OS
64-bit Windows 7, 64-bit Windows 8.1 or 64-bit Windows 10
Processor
3.0 GHz Intel Core2 Duo/AMD Phenom II
Graphics
DirectX® 11.0 compatible graphics card with 1GB of memory
Memory
4 GB RAM
Storage
10 GB available space
DirectX
Version 11

PC version details

DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.

DRM
None declared on Steam
Controller
Keyboard and mouse
Platforms
Windows
Achievements
66
Steam features
Workshop, Cloud saves, Family Sharing, Trading cards

Steam Deck: Playable

  • Some text entry requires manually opening the on-screen keyboard
  • Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
  • All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
  • Shows Steam Deck controller icons
  • Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck

Multiplayer and co-op

Languages

Full audio: English, French, German.

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