Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!corton!mirsa!yeu.inria.fr!buffa From: buffa@yeu.inria.fr (Michel Buffa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games Subject: Re: Stellar 7 Message-ID: <11541@mirsa.inria.fr> Date: 30 May 91 08:38:33 GMT References: <1991May28.110000.1@watt.ccs.tuns.ca> Sender: news@mirsa.inria.fr Reply-To: buffa@mirsa.inria.fr Organization: Inria Sofia Antipolis Lines: 31 Nntp-Posting-Host: yeu.inria.fr In article <1991May28.110000.1@watt.ccs.tuns.ca>, macauslandr@watt.ccs.tuns.ca writes: > I was down at the local software emporium the other day and noticed that > they had Stellar 7 in the Amiga section. Unfortunately the screen shots > they had on the box looked like IBM VGA, so they weren't much help in > giving an idea what the game was like on the A500. Is the game > any good or is it another uninspired-direct-unoptomized-C > -recompiled IBM port (a la A10 Tank Killer - which is not nearly as good as the > IBM version IMHO)? Do the graphics compare at all to the IBM version? I was really disappointed by the Stellar 7 amiga version: it has ugly graphics, ugly colors, small screen, it is rather slow on a non-accelerated amiga, is very painful with disk acess, even once installed on a hard drive (The only good point), it is certainly a "uninspired-direct-unoptomized-C -recompiled IBM port". If you want good Battlezone games, try Battle Command by OCEAN. It has been written by the authors of CARRIER COMMAND, and is a very good tank battle arcade/simulation type game, with lot of missions. Some are not very interesting, but some are very well designed. I played it for hours and hours. The graphics are not very impressive but the game is very fun to play, the 3D is very good and the atmosphere makes the game very addictive. AVOID STELLAR 7 ! AVOID STELLAR 7 ! AVOID STELLAR 7 ! AVOID STELLAR 7 ! -- ------------------------------------------ Michel Buffa: Projet Robotvis, INRIA, France Internet: buffa@sardaigne.inria.fr Surface Mail: Michel BUFFA, INRIA - Sophia Antipolis, 2004, route des Lucioles, 06565 Valbonne Cedex -- FRANCE Voice phone: (33) 93.65.78.39, Fax: (33) 93 65 77 65 ------------------------------------------