In an interview Nathan Mates, a programmer that worked on Battlezone II, attempted to explain why after the first game, BZ2 did not fare well on the market, in an interview with the Battlezone Magazine.
BATTLEZONE 2 REMODDLED 1.0.8 PROBLEMS PATCH
With a multiplayer that was broken and not fixed until patch 1.1 the game received a lot of negative publicity while it was on the shelf. When Battlezone II was released to the public on January 2000, the game was met with a lot of enthusiasm, but it quickly began receiving negative views because of out-of-the-box bug issues and over the top requirements to run the game for its time. My pithiest, if somewhat unfair, summation is this: 'FPS players don't want to think RTS players don't want to die Confronting an action/shooter gamer with strategy or a strategy player with action tends to force them outside their genre "comfort zone" and requires a steeper learning curve. Similarly, strategy gamers can pick up just about any strategy game on the market and play it, although strategy games tend to differ from each other more than action games. Action/shooter gamers can pick up just about any action/shooter game on the market and play it in short order, as almost all of them use the same control scheme and feature similar gameplay conventions. The problem is that mixed-genre games only attract players that like both genres (the intersection) as opposed to either genre (the union).
Programmer Ken Miller said, "BZ2 was meant to do that at first, but headed in the opposite direction.
Battlezone II was not very popular, likely due to Pandemic Studio's attempts to blend two groups together both styles of player had trouble adapting to the style they were unused to.
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