Editing Battlezone II: Combat Commander (section)

{{Short description|1999 video game}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}}
{{Infobox video game
| title = Battlezone II: Combat Commander
| image = Battlezone II - Combat Commander Coverart.png
| developer = [[Pandemic Studios]]<br>Big Boat Interactive {{small|(remaster)}}
| publisher = [[Activision]]<br>[[Rebellion Developments]] {{small|(remaster)}}
| director = George Collins
| producer = Matthew Candler
| designer = William Henry Stahl
| artist = Carey James Chico
| composer = Carey James Chico
| released = {{ubl|{{vgrelease|NA|30 December 1999<ref name="NARelease">{{cite web | url=https://www.gamespot.com/articles/battlezone-ii-released/1100-2447465/ | title=Battlezone II Released [date mislabeled as "April 27, 2000"] | last=Kennedy | first=Sam | date=30 December 1999 | website=[[GameSpot]] | publisher=[[Fandom (website)|Fandom]] | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000604155531/http://headline.gamespot.com/news/99_12/30_pc_battle/index.html | archive-date=4 June 2000 | url-status=live | access-date=13 June 2021}}</ref>|EU|25 February 2000<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.eurogamer.net/article-26210 | title=Battlezone II patch | last=Bye | first=John "Gestalt" | date=25 February 2000 | website=[[Eurogamer]] | publisher=[[Gamer Network]] | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230831143303/https://www.eurogamer.net/article-26210 | archive-date=31 August 2023 | url-status=live | access-date=1 October 2023}}</ref>}}|1 March 2018 <small>(remaster)</small>}}
| genre = [[First-person shooter]], [[real-time strategy]]
| modes = [[Single-player]], [[multiplayer]]
| platforms = [[Microsoft Windows]]
}}
'''''Battlezone II: Combat Commander''''' is a hybrid tank shooter, [[first-person shooter]] and [[real-time strategy]] video game, developed by [[Pandemic Studios]], and published by [[Activision]] in 1999-2000. It is the sequel to the 1998 game ''[[Battlezone (1998 video game)|Battlezone]]'', in which players pilot various futuristic vehicles across different planets, along with building and managing additional units and structures. The game's story focuses on a conflict during an alternative 1990s period, in which humanity explores space for resources only to encounter an alien race in the process that they become locked in combat with. Although met with great enthusiasm, the game generated negative reviews due to bugs and other complaints by players, though retrospective reviews were more positive.

A remastered version was released in March 2018 under the title ''Battlezone: Combat Commander'' on the gaming platforms [[GOG.com]] and [[Steam (service)|Steam]].<ref>{{cite news | url=https://metro.co.uk/2018/03/01/battlezone-combat-commander-review-oil-vinegar-together-7353099/ | title=Battlezone: Combat Commander review – oil and vinegar, together again | date=1 March 2018 | newspaper=[[Metro (British newspaper)|Metro]] | publisher=[[DMG Media]] | location=UK | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190926223341/https://metro.co.uk/2018/03/01/battlezone-combat-commander-review-oil-vinegar-together-7353099/ | archive-date=26 September 2019 | url-status=live | access-date=19 July 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine | url=https://www.pcgamer.com/rebellion-unveils-battlezone-combat-commandera-remaster-of-battlezone-2/ | title=Rebellion unveils Battlezone Combat Commander—a remaster of Battlezone 2 | last=Donnelly | first=Joe | date=29 November 2017 | magazine=[[PC Gamer]] | publisher=[[Future plc]] | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180203114210/http://www.pcgamer.com/rebellion-unveils-battlezone-combat-commandera-remaster-of-battlezone-2/ | archive-date=3 February 2018 | url-status=live | access-date=19 July 2023}}</ref>