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From: buffa@kish.inria.fr (Michel Buffa)
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Subject: Re: Battle Command
Keywords: good game
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Date: 14 Feb 91 13:44:50 GMT
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In article <892@ub.d.umn.edu>, bgrave@ub.d.umn.edu (Brian Grave) writes:
> Just out of curiosity, there's Carrier Command and now Battle Command.  Are
> there any others that have the same type of game play as these?
> 
> Thanks for andy and all replys.
> --

Real Time Software made only two games: Carrier Command and Battle Command.
Both games are simulation games with very fast animation which gives an arcade
feeling and may perturbate the ones who love "real" simulations like M1 Tank
Platoon or F19, which are much too slow and boring for me.

Personnally I prefer Battle Command to any slow simulation game, even if the
documentation is really bad written, if the game is not a real simulation.
It's the same thing with Carrier Command. If you play to beat the computer,
you'll see after a while that the game hasn't been tested a lot, that the
computer opponent cheats... But you can play for hours just moving around with
your ships, your planes, your tanks, and play like an arcade game. 

Another game is similar to these ones: Starglider II. The adventure itself is
not very interesting and much too long, but just flying around, visiting
planets is a lot of fun. I recommend this one too.

By the Way, the 3d in these games is the best one I saw on the Amiga, very
fast with a lot of details. The game area in Battle Command is very big and
may seem desertic, but when you cross an ennemy base, when you come close to
the ennemies, you'll appreciate the details.

If Battle Command had a decent documentation, It would have been a Giant game,
but I still didn't understand how to perform some important actions, like pick
up an object (and in some missions, I need to locate an hostage or a
satellite, and pick it up. I don't know how ???), use some weapons. The game
reached the shelves just before Christmas, and I guess they didn't take much
time to write a real documentation.

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