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From: halcyon!elf@sumax.seattleu.edu (Elf Sternberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Full Metal Planet
Keywords: Full Metal Planet
Message-ID: <8mocV2w164w@halcyon.uucp>
Date: 6 Jan 91 11:33:54 GMT
Organization: Pendor, UnLtd.
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Comments: You'd think wargame writers would know something about strategy!


        Does anybody else have this game?  I've got Full Metal Planet, 
and at first it seemed to be a good game.  
        But now, pooh.  The map is always the same; conquering the same 
place twice is awfully dull.  I measure success not by whether I win, or 
by whether I defeat the three computer opponents at all, but by whether 
or not I can lift off with over 100 units of ore.  I can now always 
defeat the computers; usually I manage to lift off with all four 
freighters in perfect shape and under my control.  That's pretty sad.
        There are some awesome ideas in this game.  I just wish it was a 
little harder to beat.  In the end, thought, I find myself playing Ralph 
Reed's MechForce, which was half price, sold only throught BBS's and Mail 
Order, and has provided literally hundreds (if not thousands) of hours of 
entertainment to myself and my three roommates.  Why doesn't Reed sell 
public?
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Elf Sternberg      |16-inch rotary debugger: A highly effective tool
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