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From: jamie@sievax.enet.dec.com (Jamie Badman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: REVIEW : Prehistorik
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.092407.27666@hollie.rdg.dec.com>
Date: 17 Jun 91 09:24:07 GMT
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In article <17687.28592fca@ul.ie>, 9035893@ul.ie (David Knowles)
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>From: 9035893@ul.ie (David Knowles)
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>Subject: Re: REVIEW : Prehistorik
>Message-ID: <17687.28592fca@ul.ie>
>Date: 14 Jun 91 21:06:17 GMT
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>In article <1991Jun12.101850.1283@hollie.rdg.dec.com>,
>jamie@sievax.enet.dec.com (Jamie Badman) writes:
>> Prehistorik by Titus Software.
>> ==============================
>> This is the game that has been hailed by some as being the game to
>push
>> the Mario Brothers off of their throne as the best platform scroller
>> around. I guess first thing's first; I'll dispell that myth; Mario
>> Brothers is still by far the best game of its kind. The Great Giana
>sisters
>> came close but Prehistorik isn't even in the running.
>
>Whaaaaaaaaat????
>What about Rick Dangerous I and II??
>I played GG Sisters and found it way too easy, there was no challenge
>whatsoever
>the gameplay was monotonous and the game really just too easy.
>What ever about Mario brothers, GG sisters is crap.
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You're talking out the wrong end, David! GG is a great game. Thoroughly
addictive. I also think that Rick Dangerous I is a very good game too,
though it's not really similar to either GG or Prehistorik (so what it's
doing here, I don't know!). However, I thought that Rick Dangerous II
was really poor. I'd expected something better than RD1 but it never
happened; the graphics were a step backward and I felt the gameplay was
not as good. Now if they'd have made RDII to be as significantly better
than RDI as Switchblade 2 was to SB1 then it'd have been a winner.


				Jamie.