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From: jcfst@unix.cis.pitt.edu (John C. Fossum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: OK, So what are the BEST Amiga Games
Message-ID: <41661@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: 25 Sep 90 23:53:59 GMT
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In article <8064@milton.u.washington.edu>, jimsa@milton.u.washington.edu (Jim Sather) writes:
> 
> Now that I am getting an Amiga I'd like to hear from you gamers on which
> are the best games for it.  I put a lot a value on graphics.  A game must
> have good graphics for me to play it, but it cannot only have graphics it 
> must have good gameplay also.  I suspect that many of you hold the same
> opinion.  So I'm ready to start building a library of games and would like
> to hear from you on what I should get.  Please respond via email and if 
> there is signigicant interest I will post a summary to the net.
> 
> -Jim
> jimsa@milton.u.washington.edu

     One of the most addictive games that I have picked up in the last week
is Wings by Cinemaware. The graphics and music soundtracks are outstanding
as well. You are a World War I flying ace who has to fight throughout
the entire 2 and something years of WWI. A new mission is in store every
3 days or so. You can either strafe infantry, supplies, convies, and/or
trains in a neat-looking 3/4 scrolling view; or bomb trains, supply
hangars, U-boats, destroyers, aerodromes, and/or planes in overhead   
bombing runs; or fly in a biplane in a simulator type atmosphere where
you are viewing behind the pilots head (which turns to view the
closest enemy aircraft) and making patrols for enemy aircraft, escorting
bombers, protecting your base, or destroying observation balloons. The
simulator part is the most fun. You actually see the different vector-
rendered biplanes, monoplanes, and tri-planes that you go against, each
with its own iron cross on its rudder. There is ground fire that hinders
you (which is also in the other 2 types of flying (3/4 and overhead))
and your skills are increased with every successful mission. A log
book, kept by you (but prewritten), describes the events of the day,
what the captain has planned for you to do, what the Germans are doing,
and other things like "I doubt I'll be home for Christmas"...its like
a diary-journal type thing which gets you personally involved in the
game, instead of a dull, 100 key presses to take off flight simulator.
All controls are by joystick, which are implemented well, and the
game has hours upon hours of replayability. My choice for Amiga
Game of the Year.

-Steve M. Suhy-