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From: robertj@unreal.uucp (Young Rob Jellinghaus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Robosport (actually Roboplayer)
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Date: 2 May 91 19:32:39 GMT
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I just got Robosport, and I have to admit, I like it a lot.  I've
always been intrigued by these sorts of small-unit-tactics games,
and Robosport's the first one I've really been able to play--I
used to buy an occasional SSI game on my Apple ][ and always got
sick of typing numbers to move the cursor around and then waiting
years for the computer to move.  Robosport does it right.  I'm
not brutally addicted, but I think it's gonna have a lot of staying
power.

The main drag with it is some bugs in the RoboPlayer program.  See,
you can record the progress of an entire game and save it as a
"movie", and then you can use this other program to play the movie
back and review your tactics.  Which is fine, except on my Mac II
with 8mb and 6.0.5, RoboPlayer is real buggy.  The main problem is
it sometimes fails to erase robots when they die, and sometimes
loses track of robots that get hit--so every now and then a robot
will appear out of empty space.  The actual progress is correct--
i.e. things happen the way they did during the game--but after a
while there are enough robots littering the screen that you can't
tell what is going on.  Kind of makes it useless for reviewing
tactics.

Once those bugs are fixed, though, I'll be playing it even more than
I am now.  It's a nice game.  Anyone else have any especially good
stories?  (Don't you hate how if your missile robot's shooting too
close to a house it's easy for it to miss its target and hit the
side of the house?  And what about the ease of taking eight stupid
computer robots with four of your guys?  But Capture the Flag versus
a ferocious computer is pretty nasty--the computer uses bounding
overwatch pretty well....)

--
Rob Jellinghaus                 | "Next time you see a lie being spread or
Autodesk, Inc.                  |  a bad decision being made out of sheer
robertj@Autodesk.COM            |  ignorance, pause, and think of hypertext."
{decwrl,uunet}!autodesk!robertj |    -- K. Eric Drexler, _Engines of Creation_