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From: dfrancis@tronsbox.xei.com (Dennis Francis Heffernan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: OK, So what are the BEST Amiga Games
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Date: 26 Sep 90 08:00:19 GMT
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	RE Wings

	It's a great game, but there were things I didn't like.  Most of all
the ENDING, which is a big let-down.  I don't think I'm giving anything away
when I say that the last mission (#240 or so) is just a one-on-one against
a German plane, D.VII if memory serves.  I had well over 200 kills by this
point, so this wasn't any kind of challenge at all.  (Earlier in the game, in
the only other solo mission you're sent on, you get jumped by seven planes.
I shot them all down without taking any hits.  I should be afraid of one 
plane?)

	I also thought that while the journal was a nice touch, it was TOO
impersonal.  They could have livened it up a little, I think.  (I really didn't
like being told how terrified I was during Bloody April, when I already had 
more kills than Richthofen would ever get.)  I especially didn't care for 
the way the journal would just pick up like nothing happened after your pilot
was killed and you replaced him with a new one.

	And I didn't like the way my pilot's head became a "blind spot"-
enemy planes would get in front of me and I couldn't see them because my head
was in the way!

	It's a good game, and I recommend it to anyone interested in WW I
air combat.  The journal gives you a sense of living through the war.  But
despite what the box says, it is NOT a role-playing game of any kind, so if
that's what you're looking for, stay away.

PS- it was dirty pool not to mention in the docs the scenes where you try to 
evade the German plane on your tail from a back view of your plane.  I almost
got shot down the first time that happened to me waiting for my jaw to get
off the floor...;-)


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