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From: brian@sky.COM (Brian Pelletier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: DON'T BUY FUTURE WARS (was Re: Evaluating Amiga Games)
Message-ID: <761@sky.COM>
Date: 10 Jan 91 22:06:06 GMT
References: <QbWWrmW00WB_MZ234z@andrew.cmu.edu> <5188@bwdls58.UUCP>
Reply-To: brian@sky.COM (Brian Pelletier)
Organization: SKY Computers, Chelmsford MA
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In article <5188@bwdls58.UUCP> keithh@atreus.bnr.ca (Keith Hanlan) writes:
>In article <QbWWrmW00WB_MZ234z@andrew.cmu.edu> kg19+@andrew.cmu.edu (Kurt A. Geisel) writes:
>>I am preparing for another games order and I would like to know a
>>few important points about the following games, if anyone would like
>>to comment:
>>
>>...
>>Future Wars
>
>Future Wars was promising but:

   [Some Future Wars problems deleted}

>	o The North American distributer, Interplay Productions, has no
>	handle on the game designers, Delphine who are French.  In 4

Yup, they do seem to have a problem with this group of game designers.  I got
the game "James Bond - The Stealth Affair" for Christmas, made by the same
people and also distributed by Interplay.  Most of the criticisms you mention
about Future Wars apply to this game.  I have other gripes as well:
	- There is a big `OK` message which you have to click on to get from
	  the intro to the next part of the game.  You have to click on a 
	  tiny little spot on the OK to get it to work.  I thought my disk
	  had crashed the first two times I tried to boot it. 
	- Although JBTSA runs from hard disk, the installation procedure
	  in the manual is incorrect.
	- You still need a floppy disk to save games in progress.
	- There is a LONG intro,  sporting cheesy IBM-style graphics 
	  which you must sit through each time you restart the game.
	- The game requires you to pick a color from a multi-colored picture
	  on the game manual's back cover. Not only is this impossible for 
	  anyone with even slight color-blindness, but you have to pick *2*
	  colors before you can play the game.  Why two?????

I was really impressed with Dragon Wars (also an Interplay game), but they 
appear to have dumped many of the 'good' features of that game when they 
distributed Future Wars and The Stealth Affair.....

>off soap-box
>Keith

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