When a ship is destroyed, the pilot ejects and thus becomes vulnerable to being killed, but can escape by boarding any friendly vehicle. Players can acquire bio-metal scrap by either finding it or salvaging it from a destroyed enemy unit.

Starting with a bio-metal recycler (the most basic construction unit), the player constructs vehicles to scavenge scraps of bio-metal, build base defenses, and construct new base vehicles capable of building more advanced structures and vehicles. Building and directing units is done via interface either by selecting onscreen object with the mouse or by using number keys on the keyboard. The primary resource in Battlezone is bio-metal scrap which is used to produce new units and construct new buildings. A sequel, Battlezone II: Combat Commander, was released in 1999. In 2016, a remastered version titled Battlezone 98 Redux was released developed by Big Boat Interactive and published by Rebellion Developments. In 2000, a Nintendo 64 port was released under the name Battlezone: Rise of the Black Dogs. Two expansion packs were released in 1998, Battlegrounds and The Red Odyssey. In Battlezone the player is controlling everything on the battlefield from the first person view. Activision remade it into a hybrid of a tank simulation game, a first-person shooter and a real-time strategy game. Aside from the name and presence of tanks, this game bears little resemblance to the original arcade game of the same name.

It was released for Microsoft Windows in 1998. Battlezone is a first-person shooter real-time strategy video game, developed and published by Activision.

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