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Herzog Zwei
North American cover art
Developer(s)	Technosoft
Publisher(s)	Sega JP: Technosoft
Developer(south)	Takashi Iwanaga
Composer(due south)	Naosuke Arai Tomomi Otani
Platform(s)	Mega Bulldoze/Genesis
Release	JP: December 15, 1989 NA: April 1990 Eu: 1990
Genre(s)	Real-fourth dimension strategy
Mode(s)	Unmarried-actor, multiplayer

Herzog Zwei ^[a] (German pronunciation: [ˈhɛɐ̯tsoːk ˈtsvaɪ̯], High german for "Knuckles Two") is a real-time strategy video game adult by Technosoft and published by Sega for the Mega Drive/Genesis. An early existent-time strategy game, it predates the genre-popularizing Dune II. It was released first in Nippon in 1989 and worldwide in 1990.^[1] Information technology is the sequel to Herzog, which was available on the Japanese MSX and PC-8801 personal computers.

Herzog Zwei combines the arcade-style play of Technosoft's own Thunder Strength series with a simple, easy-to-grasp level of strategy. It has been cited as an inspiration to the developers of Warcraft, Starcraft, Dune Two, and Control & Conquer.^[i] ^[ii] ^[three] ^[4] Information technology is also considered a precursor to the MOBA genre.^[5] ^[6]

Gameplay [edit]

The player straight pilots a flying, transforming mech, like to the variable fighter depicted in Macross. It is a multi-role vehicle suited for utility and combat.^[7] Through the mech, the histrion purchases surface combat units, airlifts them across the battleground, and issues them orders. These control activities can merely be performed through the mech. Vehicles follow their assigned orders (patrol, garrison, capture base) until they either run out of fuel or are destroyed. Tactical re-deployment (mission reassignment, vehicle repair) involves a great deal of micromanagement, due to the required interest of the mech.

Both the thespian's basis forces and the mech have finite fuel and armament. A prolonged engagement requires considerable micromanagement, as vehicles volition not auto-repair, and the fragile gainsay-supply vehicles have a limited radius of service.

With a total of eight dissimilar types of land units to purchase, the player can determine the limerick of his regular army. Each combat vehicle type represents a tradeoff between speed, anti-air, ground-attack, and cost. Units are assigned mission orders from a menu pick: "fight from a stock-still position", "patrol this area", "fight in stock-still radius" and "go to/attack/occupy intermediate base of operations". New orders tin only be issued during the airlift, and every time a unit's mission orders are reassigned, a cost is incurred.

In addition to the player's main base, in that location are nine permanent outposts scattered across the battlefield. These indestructible buildings are the but production resources on the battlefield. One time nether a role player'southward control, an outpost generates boosted revenue (for purchase of units) and serves as a remote base of operations of operations (repair/refuel, pick upwards delivery of purchased unit). A key strategy is to capture as many outposts as possible or deny enemy utilise through nuisance actions.

Herzog Zwei supports both single-role player mode against the AI, besides as a ii-player multiplayer mode. In unmarried-player, the entire screen is devoted to the human being-thespian's field of view. The game partially offsets the AI'south inherent weakness by increasing the armor and offensive damage of computer histrion side with each advancing level.

Reception [edit]

Herzog Zwei was not a huge commercial success, due to its lack of marketing, relatively early on release on the Genesis platform,^[ane] and non-arcade genre on what was considered an arcade game panel. Upon its 1990 release in Northward America, Electronic Gaming Monthly gave the game a rating of 4.25 out of 10,^[10] based on 4 individual reviewer scores of 4, 6, four, and 3.^[eighteen]

The Mega Drive version's reception in Europe was generally more positive. In the Uk, in the April 1990 issue of Computer and Video Games, reviewer Paul Glancey gave the game an 82% score. He described information technology every bit "a game of conquest between two commanders in real time" and stated that what "sets it apart from other strategy games is that everything happens in real time. Both players are in action simultaneously and in that location are no pauses while decisions are taken then you accept to think on the move or dice". He noted that the command icons are "fairly easy to grasp" and ended that it is a game that helps establish the Mega Bulldoze as a "real" figurer rather than "a auto for immobilized arcade players".^[nine] Warren Lapworth reviewed the game in the March 1990 issue of The Games Automobile mag, giving the game a 75% score. He described it every bit an "unusual product" and stated that "whether it's intended to become strategists to consider buying the console or to broaden the horizons of trigger-happy lunatics, I don't know. Either manner, it'southward quite refreshing and can be quite addictive in two-player way, fierce rivalry developing between friends".^[17] In French republic, the game was reviewed in the Nov 1990 result of Joystick mag, where reviewer JM Destroy gave the game a 78% score.^[13] The game was especially well received in Germany, where it was known as Herzog 2; Power Play magazine gave it an 80% score in its April 1990 issue,^[15] and Play Time gave information technology an 85% score in its June 1991 issue.^[14]

Retrospective coverage [edit]

Retrospective reviews have been very positive. David Filip of AllGame gave the game a score of 4 out of 5 stars, describing it as "1 of the first" and "one of the best" strategy video games on domicile consoles and every bit "a fine cure for those days when yous desire a dissimilar kind of RTS to control".^[eight] Game Informer in 1999 scored it 9.75 out of 10, making it the magazine's highest-rated Genesis game.^[11] Daniel Thomas of Sega-16 gave information technology a score of 10 out of 10 in 2004, describing it as "very probably the finest video game y'all've never played" and as the Genesis console's "finest hour".^[16] Lawrence Wright of Insomnia gave the game a score of 5 out of five stars in 2008.^[12] GameSpot users have given Herzog Zwei an average score of 8.8 out of 10 as of 2009.^[xix]

Information technology is often found on several "best of..." lists of video games, owing to its precedence in the real-time strategy genre, equally well to the increasing agreement of finer points of its mechanics.^[ane] ^[20] It was featured in the "100 Best Games of All Time" list of Electronic Gaming Monthly, in the November 1997 issue which ranked information technology at #43,^[21] and in the January 2002 outcome which ranked it #52.^[22] The September 1996 result of Adjacent Generation ranked it the 31st best game of all time,^[23] and the February 1999 outcome ranked it 39th best—^[24] in both cases arguing that the strategic concept and level design were aped by more than high-profile games similar Cannon Forage and Command & Conquer.^[25] Information technology has been featured in IGN'south "Height 100 Games of All Time", in the 2003 list which ranked it at #62,^[26] and in the 2005 list which ranked it #95.^[27] In 2003, GameSpy listed the game as one of the 25 nigh underrated games of all fourth dimension.^[28] 1UP.com included the game in its "Essential 50" list of "The Most Important Games E'er Fabricated".^[1] The U.S. game release packaging art was executed past veteran San Francisco game box illustrator Marc Ericksen, who had previously washed the fine art for its sister game Thunder Force II.

Legacy [edit]

The game concept of a central command and fighting vehicle directing other friendly units to attack remote enemy base of operations appeared in past games, such as Sir Tech'southward 1984 game Rescue Raiders. However, Scott Sharkey of 1UP.com states that the 1988 game Modem Wars was possibly "[t]he closest predecessor" to Herzog Zwei, merely that it "was fairly primitive and abstract by comparing", that earlier such games lacked the ability to construct units or manage resources which made them "much more tactical than strategic", and that the slower processors made the ticks "and so long that the games were practically turn based".^[ane] Total Anything (1997) and its spiritual successor Supreme Commander likewise inherit the concept of a large robotic command vehicle which is used to construct and command an ground forces. Conversely, Total Annihilation and Supreme Commander are controlled in a similar manner to traditional real-time strategy games; dissimilar in Herzog Zwei, the control vehicle in those games is mainly zero more than than a peculiarly powerful and versatile unit.

The producers of Dune Ii admit Herzog Zwei as an influence,^[ii] ^[four] every bit do the producers of Warcraft (1994),^[3] ^[29] ^[30] Command & Conquer (1995), Starcraft (1998), War of the Band (2003),^[1] and Brütal Legend (2009).^[31] Herzog Zwei is considered a predecessor to the MOBA subgenre, also known every bit action RTS,^[32] though a cardinal difference is that Herzog Zwei has a fully customizable control unit with function-playing video game elements that the player has full command over, while commanding an army to go into boxing with rather than mindless drones that respawn at ready intervals.^[32] The 2014 boxing loonshit game AirMech is also inspired by Herzog Zwei.^[33]

Herzog Zwei was re-released on Nintendo Switch as the terminal entry in the Sega Ages line of rereleases in Nihon on Baronial 27, 2020.^[34] Information technology has online multiplayer, an interactive tutorial mode, widescreen with extra HUD back up, difficulty options, and the ability to save replays.

Notes [edit]

^ Japanese: ヘルツォーク・ツヴァイ, Hepburn: Herutsuōku Tsuvuai

References [edit]

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External links [edit]

Herzog Zwei at MobyGames