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Battle Isle 3

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Battle Isle 3
Battle Isle 3 cover
Developers
Blue Byte Software
Publishers
Retail Blue Byte Software
Digital Ubisoft
Release dates
Windows 3.x 1995
Windows 1995
Linux Source ports only
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Turn-based
Perspectives Top-down view
Controls Point and select
Genres Strategy
Themes Sci-fi
Series Battle Isle
Battle Isle 3 on HowLongToBeat
Battle Isle 3 on MobyGames
Battle Isle 3 on Wikipedia
Battle Isle
Battle Isle 1991
Battle Isle 2 1994
Battle Isle 3 1995
Incubation: Time Is Running Out 1997
Battle Isle: The Andosia War 2000

Key points

Released as Battle Isle 2220: Shadow of the Emperor in North America.
Customisable interface that can be moved around freely

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
Windows 3.x
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Available as "Battle Isle Platinum". Includes Battle Isle, Battle Isle 2, Battle Isle 3, Incubation: Time Is Running Out, Historyline: 1914-1918, and their respective expansions.
Windows
Ubisoft Store
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Available as "Battle Isle Platinum". Includes Battle Isle, Battle Isle 2, Battle Isle 3, Incubation: Time Is Running Out, Historyline: 1914-1918, and their respective expansions.
Windows
A free demo version is available from Archive.org.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows
Linux

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\SDI\SAV[Note 1]
Linux

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Ubisoft Connect

Video

In-game options menu.
In-game options menu.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
German
Retail only; download for GOG.com release

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
6 Hot seat
LAN play
6
Online play
Asynchronous multiplayer

Other information

API

Executable16-bit 32-bit 64-bitARM Notes
Windows
Windows 3.x version might be playable on a 64-bit OS using winevdm.
Linux
32-bit and ARM32 support requires M-HT SR. No ARM64 support is known to exist.

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 3.11
Processor (CPU) 80486
System memory (RAM) 8 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD)
Other 2x CD-ROM drive


Notes

  1. When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

References