"Battlezone" won "Computer Gaming World"s award for the best action game of 1998. The editors wrote that it "really broke new ground", and summarized, "The graphics were drop-dead gorgeous, the multiplayer game was a blast, and the game sported a beautifully designed interface that made commanding your forces an intuitive breeze." "PC Gamer US" nominated "Battlezone" as 1998's best action game, best strategy game and overall game of the year, but it lost these three categories to "Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six", "StarCraft" and "Half-Life", respectively. The editors called "Battlezone" "a who-would-have-thought-it-possible melding of first-person action and real-time strategy that also boasted some of the year's best presentation and interface design."