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From: tesst4@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Tobish E Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Phoenix
Summary: The real poop
Keywords: Phoenix
Message-ID: <86269@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: 1 Feb 91 08:44:32 GMT
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Reply-To: tesst4@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Tobish E Smith)
Organization: University of Pittsburgh, CIS
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People have been asking around recently about this game like it's 
the greatest thing since sliced bread.  All it is is a HUGE World
Builder adventure based on the movies 2001 and 2010.  Yes, it has
nice (b/w) digitized graphics and lots of HAL sound clips, but it's
still just a World Builder product.  And a frustrating one at that.
Why?  Because, for one, it takes forever to download (>1 meg 
unstuffed, if memory serves) and secondly, it requires a thorough
knowledge of the movies, i.e. play the game while watching the movies 
or play the game, take notes, watch the movie to find the answers,
repeat.  Add to this the fact that it still has to use the very
poor World Builder parser and you have a very mediocre adventure
with some very pretty auxiliary files.

Tob
"I think that I'm jazzy like Christ."