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From: UD118950@NDSUVM1.BITNET (Tony Bruno)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Strike Aces
Message-ID: <91033.171141UD118950@NDSUVM1.BITNET>
Date: 2 Feb 91 23:11:41 GMT
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  I'll second the thumbs-down opinion of Strike Aces.

  Unfortunately, I bought the damned thing (after an impressive in-store
demo.)  I went home, played it for a week, and it now sits, unused, on my
games shelf.

  The worst part about the game is air-to-air combat.  As I mentioned in a
previous post, I can hold my own in ACM on most simulators.  I, too, got
toasted all the time in STRIKE ACES.

  I originally thought that I was losing because my SI (situational awareness)
wasn't that high.  Wrong answer.  I am almost sure now that the computer cheats
 and moves the planes with codes completely wrong for the aircraft in question.

  With regard to update speed:  Not bad, but certainly not good enough to make
up for the rest of the game.  Other problems:  The runways are MILES long,
the planes CANNOT taxi on the ground (haven't these guys heard of nosewheel
steering?) and the planes fly essentially all alike.

  BIG THUMBS-DOWN.  Don't bother.

Tony Bruno ud118950@ndsuvm1       "Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the
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English/Honors Major               Before I wake...then someone gets
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