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From: roger_earl@icecave.wimsey.bc.ca (Roger Earl)
Message-ID: <roger_earl.6909@icecave.wimsey.bc.ca>
Organization: Animatrix
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Many opinions and reviews requested
Date: 1 May 91 02:08:50 PDT

tony@uc780.umd.edu (Tony) writes...
>Would anyone care to comment on playability, graphics, and interface
>for:
>
>o  Space Quest and King's Quest games from Sierra...so many games are
>   ported instead of really rewritten (Space Rogue comes to mind), and
>   it seems that the ones that have been rewritten (like SimCity) are
>   a lot more friendly than clunky ports...How do these Sierra games
>   add up.
>
>o  Future Wars.  I've seen this in the stores, but have heard no comments
>   about it.  Is it text, graphics, what?  How is it?
>
>o  Spellcasting 101.  Is this out for the Amiga?  I have not seen it at all.
>
>These were foremost in my mind.  Next time I'm in the store, I'll note
>others and ask about them.  Any comments on the above titles would be
>greatly appreciated.

I have almost all the Sierra games on the Amiga, they are indeed just 'ported'
over.  This makes the games more or less the same as they are on an IBM. 
Some of the Sierra games do treat the second floppy a bit odd (can use it for
save disks, but not game disks, but this is how I would use it anyway).

Future Wars is one of my favorite adventure games to date.  The graphics are
superb and original, the plot is subtly more humorous than the Sierra games.
The interface is really what makes it shine, though.  Point and click all the
way, so its the puzzles themselves that are hard.  None of the old trying to
figure out what that green blob is supposed to be like the Sierra games.

I've never heard of Spellcasting 101.

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