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From: clp@altos86.Altos.COM (Chuck L. Peterson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: RISK review blast
Message-ID: <3332@altos86.Altos.COM>
Date: 7 Apr 90 18:55:38 GMT
Organization: Altos Computer Systems, San Jose, CA
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On a scale of 0 to 2, I must give RISK a 0 -- as in don't buy it.
It really amazes me how these "developers" put practially no
thought into the user interface -- what the player sees the most.
What I wouldn't pay for a version of risk which was designed by
the makers of SimCity...

In order to initiate an attack, you must:
	type AMIGA-N (which incidently put me back to my shell window the
	1 time I tried it)
or
	pull down and select the New Attack menu item

Why can't they just have a gadget thingie on the screen labelled "attack"?

It sure would be nice to put the whole map on the screen like jeapord,
and perhaps blow-up those regions in battle.  This map scrolling
is nonsense.

When you win an attack, this huge white requester window comes up
and covers most of the on-screen map asking you how many armies
you want to move.  "Let me see the god damned map so I can figure it out!!!"

Of course the game is played in low-res so I feel like an idiot for
buying a flicker fixer to enhance my hi-res.

And to top it all off, the Custom RISK font is absolutely retarded.
Gee Wiz, what's wrong with Times Roman anyway?  Oh yeah, they are running
in lo-res.

It is crap like this which will cause the destruction of Commodore-Amiga;
when my machine runs this software, it is a very unimpressive machine.

Chuck L. Peterson
clp@altos.com