Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!brunix!cs.brown.edu!cem
From: cem@cs.brown.edu (Charles E. Moylan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Info on COM-BAT?
Keywords: mac, games
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Date: 11 Feb 91 16:47:32 GMT
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In article <3249@ux.acs.umn.edu>, clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson) writes:
|> In article <48963@apple.Apple.COM> szy@Apple.COM (Steven J. Szymanski) writes:
|> >Can anyone provide a review on the game COM-BAT for the mac? It appears to
|> >be yet another ported tank combat game. How's the game? How's the mac
|> >interface?
|> 
|> Graphics are cheesy. [on the IIci, the game did live long enough for me to note
|> this]
|> 
|> Units cannot be damaged by friendly fire.
|> 
|> Terrain and buildings are indestructible.
|> 
|> Overall, just reading the manual, I was less than overwhelmed.
|> 
|> Then again, I haven't played it.


I agree with this and would like to add that I _have_ played the game
and was considerably UNDERwhelmed by it.  Luckily I played a friend's
copy of the game and based on that experience chose not to waste my
money on my own copy.  The mac interface is pretty lousy.

-- 
Charlie Moylan (cem@cs.brown.edu)