Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!psuvm!mbs110 From: MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games Subject: Re: virtual reality gaming Message-ID: <90264.165738MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu> Date: 21 Sep 90 20:57:38 GMT References: Distribution: comp.sys.amiga.games Organization: Penn State University Lines: 29 In article , owhite@nmsu.edu (Spamgod) says: > [asking about Virtual Reality games...] I haven't seen Colony, but IMHO the best "Virtual Reality" game you can find at the moment is Damocles (aka Mercenary II) from Novagen Software. The game is entirely in highly detailed solid 3-D. Your play area consists of something like nine planets with twenty or so moons -- each with its own cities and buildings to explore (major planets have more than one city.) Puzzles often require you to travel between planets to find the appropriate objects. (the deep-space view, by the way, is top-notch.) Although there is a time limit for completing your main task, you can play and explore as long as you like whether or not you "win." Each time I come back to it I find something else new. The only problems I have with this game are the sound (low-quality but acceptible) and the 1:30 opening sequence which can't be skipped... but these are minor quibbles. GET THIS GAME. Ah yes, and if anyone else out there is playing: any hints on getting into the Eris Currency Repository, and what keys F and G open? And on working out the Midas puzzle? (not complete answers, please, just hints... thanks in advance...) /Mark "Remixed for Common Household Appliances" Sachs - MBS110@psuvm.psu.edu\ |DISCLAIMER: Yes, PSU cares deeply about video games. || // AMIGA || | |"Haven't they heard, we won the war? || \X/ Power || | \ What do they keep on fighting for?" -- Billy Joel, Leningrad =============/