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From: manes@vger.nsu.edu ((Mark D. Manes), Norfolk State University)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: ArmourGeddon
Message-ID: <927.28244894@vger.nsu.edu>
Date: 5 May 91 22:01:55 GMT
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In article <2695@public.BTR.COM>, valentin@public.BTR.COM (Valentin Pepelea) writes:
> In article <116378@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> visconti@cis.ohio-state.edu (mark a
> visconti) writes:
>>
>>  Has anyone played ArmourGeddon from Psygnosis ?  Any comments or complaints
>>about the game ?  I am especially interested in the two player mode and
>>compatability problems with 2500/20 and 2500/30 machines.  
> 
> I just bought the game today. The smooth 3-D filled polygon graphics are
> stunning, perhaps getting updated 5-10 times per second on a 7Mhz 68000.
> You thought F-18 Interceptor was the smoothest flight simulator. Well, not
> any more.
> 
> On the other hand, in the long tradition of European games, Armour Geddon is
> not hard disk installable. The flight characteristics of the fighter and
> helicopter, the most enjoyable craft to pilot, are not realistic. For example
> turning and pulling up on the joystick cause a tremendous speed loss, to the
> point of causing a stall. The objective of the game is in the style of
> Starglider II. Search search search, blast blast blast. Sigh.
> 
> The manual does not mention what the two player mode is all about, nor whether
> the two players cooperate or dogfight. Neither have I tried the game on an
> accelerated Amiga.

Did you get a keyboard sheet with your Armour-Geddon?  I did not.  It makes
the game ever so difficult.  I seem to get killed real real quick even in 
the training mode.  The game runs very nicely on a A3000 by the way, certainly
the death sequences work. :-)

If you have the keyboard chart... please post it, or send email.

> 
> Valentin
> -- 
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