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From: robocop@unlisys.in-berlin.de (Thorsten Ebers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: FAUG demo of Powermonger by E.A. -- long review
Keywords: simply incredible
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Date: 10 Dec 90 03:13:10 GMT
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rouaix@margaux.inria.fr (Francois Rouaix) writes:


>Well, PowerMonger hit the shelves yesterday in France.
>So I spent a good amount of last night playing it ;-)

I have it since 4th december here in Berlin Germany.
I have paid 85 DM.(54$ change rate)
I love the game.

>many little objects (soldiers, farmers, sheeps, trees, objets), and
>there are difficult to distinguish. On the global map (maps all the
>word), the objects of the game are represented by points (one pixel)
>of different colors. I find it difficult to tell a yellow point among
>white points !. 

really true.the manual describes yellow dots as a city or some simular,but
clicking on it leaves you on plain land or something else.

>	- on the game itself: if you found Populous hard to play, then
>you will have a hard time with PowerMonger. The game *is* complex, and
>will require much experiment to find out the good strategy. It took me
>about 10 minutes for the first level, but almost 4 hours for the
>second... and there are 195 of them. The results of the commands

I have solved the 4th landscape on the first row.
Still trieing to get to the second row but no chance yet.

>(orders to your captains) are much less intuitive than expected.
>I think there are many things to discover in the game. A first
hard to get some birds killed.

>	- copy protection: the game is protected BOTH with special
>disk format AND look-in-the-manual. The manual protection is
>*tedious*. I fudged the first time, and was offered only ONE
>chance to get the good answer. It seems that you have to
>*reboot* of you don't want to stay in demo-mode.

I can make a backup with turbobackup.no problems.

>PowerMonger appears to be one of the best simulation games in its
>kind. Don't hesitate ! It's cheap as well (at the current FF/US$
>exchange rate for SOFTWARE, it would be around 30$).

it should work also on turboborads but after a short time of playing
my Amiga gurus.dont know why.


>--Francois
>--
>*- Francois Rouaix                 //       We are all prisoners here,       *
>*- rouaix@inria.inria.fr         \X/           of our own device             *
>*- SYSOP of Sgt. Flam's Lonely Amigas Club. (33) (1) 39-55-84-59 (Videotex)  *
>Disclaimer: Opinions expressed are my own, not those of my employer.

Thorsten