MD Herzog Zwei

Tecnho Soft's greatest game! Ok, so it's not a Thunder Force game, but it does use Thunder Force II engine (from the top down view parts of the game). Herzog Zwei (German for "Duke Two")is the one, the genesis of RTS games as you know them (apart from Herzog on the MSX, it's prequel), since Westwood was inspired on this to make Dune 2. You control a transformer ship (changes from plane to robot) that can fight, carry and deploy units in the battlefield. The single player was good, the CPU outnumbered you many units to one, but it wasn't impossible. However, two players head-to-head split screen competition made this a winner! Im lucky to have the European version of the game, complete with box and manual, it was lost in perfect conditions in a local pawn shop. Costed me 5 €uros in 1998! What a bargain! I have played this do death.

Correction from shodan404:
No, it actually means "Duke two". "Zwei Herzöge" would mean "Two Dukes".

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[CoIdHeat]

Heya! Gotta have to correct Shodan404. Herzog Zwei does not mean 2 Dukes. Your initial idea was correct. Its simply the sequel to Herzog. Dune II ain't "Two Dunes" neither. ;)

[ShiryuGL]

Thanks.

[Jagged85]

@st1ka

Dune II's lead designer Brett Sperry acknowledged that he had played Herzog Zwei before he worked on Dune II. Therefore, I think it's safe to say that Herzog Zwei did inspire Dune II.

[Jagged85]

@AnsatsuRaKarth

Utopia was not a RTS, but rather it was a turn-based strategy with some real-time elements. Herzog Zwei was the first true RTS because it was the first strategy game to run entirely in real-time and without any turn-based mechanics.

[cakestalker]

Utopia is not an RTS game, It's a turn-based strategy game, not real-time.

[ChaoticLegion01]

Airmech this, Airmech that... Better grahpics dont mean better game quality..

[tdog999100]

i just dowloaded and played this for the first time in over 15 years :D

[utrazavunje1]

There is AirMech, a game inspired by Herzog Zwei released in 2012, available for Steam.

[K Low]

love this game, many fond memories

[David I]

Your wish has been granted.

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[cakestalker]

Dune 2 came out before the original Herzog? What are you smoking? Dune 2 came out in 1992 which was several years after the Herzog games. Herzog came out in 1988 and Herzog Zwei in 1989.

[tomslick42]

Herzog Zwei was 1989, while Dune II was 1992