Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!apple!daveg
From: daveg@Apple.COM (Dave "mr helpful " Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Armor Alley
Message-ID: <44892@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 17 Sep 90 19:52:53 GMT
References: <6397@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
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ins_apw@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Philip Wong) writes:

>Hey, you guys remember Rescue Raiders from the Apple II days?  It was the
>best game probably for my II.  Well, Three-Sixty has brought it to the mac
>world.

>Has what I have said sound interesting?  Well, get this!  You can also play
>up to four players on a net (2players per side or 3 on 1, etc)!  Or play
>2 players on a net (I personally would love playing 2 player cooperative).
>You also have the option (for those of us without a nearby net) to play
>2 player via modem!  Check this game out!

I did some testing for it.  It plays well on every released cpu and
operating system.  It even manages to play fairly between people on
different speed machines (thought that plus vs fx would be fun, but it
wsa just an ordinary game)

It runs under multifinder, has nice color, excellent animation, the
guided missiles are awesome, and the computer is quite a skilled 
opponent.

My only beef with the game was the the visual feedback of being in
control of this awesome chopper tears you away from thinking of the
tremendous amounts of strategy that it requires to "win" the game.

I may be a simpleton, but I prefer just going up against human
opponents over the net and having chopper wars and forgetting
about the ground convoys (the way it evaluates "win")

This game has a very nice mac interface and is one of the most
compatible pieces of software that I have seen recently.  kudos
to the fellas that developed this.

Dave (network tester for the six-colored fruit company)


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