Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!inria!mirsa!delos.inria.fr!buffa From: buffa@delos.inria.fr (Michel Buffa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games Subject: New games Keywords: games Message-ID: <1990Aug7.093245@delos.inria.fr> Date: 8 Aug 90 06:56:45 GMT Sender: news@mirsa.inria.fr Reply-To: buffa@mirsa.inria.fr Organization: Inria Sofia Antipolis Lines: 62 I tested several new games these recent days: THE PLAGUE: wonderful graphics and animation, gigantic sprites, a kind of 'Sword of Sodan' game. Nice music too. Playability 0. I played for one hour and couldn't reach the second level. Very frustrating. This game hasn't been tested at all. Impossible to play ! Very frustrating. Don't buy ! FLOOD: The last game by the guys who made populous. It's an arcade-type game. You play a small animal who can walk everywhere (even on the ceiling). It's very hard to describe (English is not my native language), but it's VERY VERY VERY GOOD. Very playable and enjoyable. I discovered a new thing each time I managed to go to the next level, new weapons, new secret doors, new strategy. This game is the most enjoyable I played these last months, with TURRICAN. The animation is ok (not as good as in TURRICAN, but it doesn't matter, the game is really good like that), the music is nice. In some level there are hidden passwords, so later on when you'll die, you will be able to start at the last level you reached. GREAT GAME YEAH ! UNREAL: A french game by UBI SOFT, and one hell of a game ! It's like a playable Shadow of the beast. Fantastic graphics and animation, with 3D and 3D parts. The 3D parts are the best one I've ever seen (If after Burner or Space Harrier used such animation techniques, they certainly had been better). The 2D phases uses differential scrollings with 32 colours for the background and 64 for the foreground. The scrolling, the music and the animation are perfect. Playability is very good too, but the game is not for beginners. Thought it's difficult, you can progress easily as there is a training mode and a lot of tricks I discovered. It's a barbarian-like game, but it's not a stubid Beat'em'up game. Example: at one moment there is a bridge on fire; go back one screen, put your sword in the river, come back to the edge, touch the bridge with your magic sword and pour water on the fire (You must use the four basic elements: you are a magician and you've got a magic sword that can throw water, fire, ...) VERY GOOD GAME. VERY WELL DONE, VERY PLAYABLE (but not as funny and addictive as FLOOD) WINGS OF FURY: The last game by BRODERBRUND (a very good company, remember Typhoon Thomson, Lode Runner,...). It's an arcade flight simulator during the second World War. You control an airplane. It's a very neat game, very playable and very enjoyable. You must perform several missions like destroying DCA and invade Japanese Islands. All the game is in 2D. The screen scrolls in both direction and there are different scale views depending on the altitude you are flying. Very good animation, sound effects and playability. A very GOOD GAME !!!!! -- ------------------------------------------ Michel Buffa: Projet Robotvis, INRIA, France Internet: buffa@sardaigne.inria.fr Surface Mail: Michel BUFFA, INRIA - Sophia Antipolis, 2004, route des Lucioles, 06565 Valbonne Cedex -- FRANCE Voice phone: (33) 93.65.78.39, Fax: (33) 93 65 77 65 ------------------------------------------