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Battle Isle 2200 (released as Battle Isle 2 in Europe) is a strategy video game developed by Blue Byte for IBM PC compatibles and published by Accolade in 1994. It is the second entry in the science fiction themed Battle Isle series.[1][2] The game is a turn-based, hex-based, strategy wargame. An expansion was released the same year.

Battle Isle 2200
Developer(s)	Blue Byte
Publisher(s)	Accolade
Series	Battle Isle
Platform(s)	MS-DOS
Release	US: 1994 EU: 1994
Genre(s)	Strategy
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer

Plot

The player takes the role of 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

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

Battle Isle 2000 was developed by the German company Blue Byte as a sequel to their Battle Isle game. It was the first CD-ROM strategy game with 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 is included in the Battle Isle Platinum compilation released in September 2000.[4]

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