{"id":17733,"date":"2018-04-19T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/04\/battlezone_gold_edition_brings_glorious_tank_warfare_to_switch_this_summer"},"modified":"2018-04-19T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T14:00:00","slug":"battlezone-gold-edition-brings-glorious-tank-warfare-to-switch-this-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/04\/19\/battlezone-gold-edition-brings-glorious-tank-warfare-to-switch-this-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Battlezone Gold Edition Brings Glorious Tank Warfare To Switch This Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"news1.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/04\/battlezone_gold_edition_brings_glorious_tank_warfare_to_switch_this_summer\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/04\/battlezone_gold_edition_brings_glorious_tank_warfare_to_switch_this_summer\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"news1.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Back in the &#8217;80s, <strong>Battlezone<\/strong> on the Atari was a 3D tank shooter well ahead of its time, and we were delighted (and intensely jealous)\u00a0to see it revived by Rebellion for PlayStation VR and Oculus Rift last year. Well, we&#8217;re no longer green with envy because <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/battlezone_gold_edition\">Battlezone Gold Edition<\/a><\/strong> is coming to Nintendo Switch this summer!<\/p>\n<p>The rebooted version brings all the same in-tank battle action of the VR release, including the ability to play its lengthy campaign solo or with up to three other friends (or total strangers) in online co-op. The Gold Edition packs in all the released DLC, including all the cosmetic items you could possibly desire (and yes, that includes a Judge Dredd bobblehead for your cockpit).\u00a0There&#8217;s even a rad new Classic mode that enables you to play in the green wire-frame aesthetic of the original. It looks awesome and will suit Switch&#8217;s continued embrace of all things retro to a tee.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"resize\" width=\"900\" height=\"507\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z58gThlzacA?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1\" type=\"text\/html\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\">[embedded content]<\/iframe> <\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>We should mention that there&#8217;s been no official confirmation from Rebellion just yet that all the features present in the other console versions will feature on Switch, but considering the close parity of last year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/rogue_trooper_redux\"><strong>Rogue Trooper Redux<\/strong><\/a> port, there&#8217;s a good chance we&#8217;ll be blasting away with the full experience. We&#8217;ll let you know details on an official price as soon as we know more.<\/p>\n<p><em>Will you be adding Battlezone Gold Edition to your digital armory\u00a0come the summer? Let us know in the comments below&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the &#8217;80s, Battlezone on the Atari was a 3D tank shooter well ahead of its time, and we were delighted (and intensely jealous)\u00a0to see it revived by Rebellion for PlayStation VR and Oculus Rift last year. Well, we&#8217;re no longer green with envy because Battlezone Gold Edition is coming to Nintendo Switch this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}