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From: colas@avahi.inria.fr (Colas Nahaboo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Populous Data Disk
Message-ID: <1990Aug21.133823@avahi.inria.fr>
Date: 22 Aug 90 11:02:23 GMT
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In article <1990Aug19.075611.8526@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>, xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG
(Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
> In article <3983@crash.cts.com> steves@pnet01.cts.com (Stephen Scheck)
writes:
> >        What does the Populous Promised Lands data disk add to the program?
> My _impression_ was that you were still playing the same 500 levels,
> just with spiffy new graphics, but I didn't fight with it long enough
> to know that for sure.

I can't tell for bugs in it (I have the st version, which is quite bug-free)
but the computer tactics are much enhanced.
In fact, the opponent is more like a "real" person with the data disk:
It tries to attack more your leader, it seems to better "guess" what you are
planning, (and it seems to make more "human" mistakes, but this I am not
sure...)

To my taste, the new graphics are the bad part, they are smart, but a bit
confusing to the eyes. Buy it if you liked the first version, to my opinion
it is worth it. If you weren't hooked on populous, then I guess there is not
enough things news in the new version to justify its buy.

(good thing: the codes are the same, so that you can begin to fight directly
at high levels...)

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