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From: taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Vette!
Message-ID: <1835@limbo.Intuitive.Com>
Date: 8 Mar 91 09:35:18 GMT
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Reply-To: taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor)
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Organization: Intuitive Systems, Mountain View, CA: +1 (415) 966-1151
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Philip Wong writes:

> Get your driving gloves on people.  Vette is about to make it's appearance.

I got a copy a few days ago from Spectrum Holobyte and, well, it's
BRILLIANT!  :-)

It has typical Louie/SH touches too, including the moans as you run
people over (gosh, ANOTHER nun in the way? :-) and various other weird
and amusing things.

Drive past Davies Center in downtown SF, for example, and it says "MACWORLD"
on the side. (you can't get to the Moscone, as SoMo is one of the undefined
areas of the city: they didn't have space for all of SF, alas).  Drive up
to the Carol Dodo sign and sure enough, her left nipple flashes erratically.
Drive down Lombard and, well, it's awful twisty.  Use the helicopter view
while driving through the Broadway tunnel, and, well, you don't have too
much headroom... 

There are things that one learns playing this game too; for example, I
now know that it's really hard to drive across the Bay Bridge at 250 mph
unless you can remove the traffic beforehand. (on the other hand, a good
strategy for medium traffic levels is to drive on the *wrong side of
the road*, swerving around oncoming vehicles.  Kids, don't try THAT at
home! :-)  I also found out that there's a street called MacExchange
near, well, I leave it to intrepid Vette! explorers to find it...

I'll be writing up a review for Digital Games Review in a few days, but 
my summary comment is; if you like The Duel and/or Hard Driving, then
you're going to flip over this game.  If you know San Francisco, it's
even more fun.  The game has book-based copy protection which isn't
too intrusive, gorgeous graphics (includes color and B&W versions),
some pretty nifty audio, and some very witty graphics.  The list of
excuses when a cop pulls you over are great too... but I don't think
I'll try them on a real cop.

Btw, another rule of thumb; don't try to push police cars off the
Golden Gate Bridge if you're not in Trainee mode... They don't seem
to like it very much... :-)

						-- Dave Taylor
Intuitive Systems
Mountain View, California

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