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From: [e-mail] (Phil Shimmin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: RE: DOOM with Breathless engine?
Date: 17 Jan 1996 13:49:44 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]>, Andy Clitheroe <[e-mail]> writes:
|> [e-mail] (James Allen) wrote:
|> >Stefano Agostinelli ([e-mail]) wrote:
|> >: Thomas Karlsen wrote in comp.sys.amiga.misc about "DOOM with Breathless
|> >: engine?":
|> >: >
|> >: > It would be possible to "port" doom to the Amiga with the Breathless
|> >: > engine, wouldn't it?
|> >
|>
|> No. Absolutely not. Impossible. Can`t be done. Do I have to
|> make myself clearer? Breathless uses an outdated inflexible
|> fears-inspired cheese-bucket of an engine and couldn`t do a
|> Gloom level, never mind a Doom level.
|>
|> >:  Why do you want this?Breathless actually is much better than Doom,and
|> >:  imho also better than DoomII.
|>
|> Then you are in the vast minority. I don`t think there has been
|> any game to rival Doom on any computer in terms of gameplay.
|> The thing was, they didn`t have to rush Doom out in time for
|> christmas or to beat other, superior games to the shops, so
|> they took their time and perfected the gameplay, rather than
|> shoving out an initially pretty but ultimately septic dribble
|> of a game.
|>
|> >I would have to agree with this, Breathless kicks ass big time. It`s like
|>
|> trundling around a drab, unimaginative prison cell on a
|> unicycle with a wobbly wheel wishing you`d brought your glasses
|> so the other inmates wouldn`t look so blurred.
|>
|> >the further you get into this game the better the graphics get. I got
|> >to World 2 Arena 3 last night at the graphics made me breathless. The
|> >lightings effects are just so good and theres this brilliant part
|>
|> where you press three buttons simultaneously and play something
|> else instead
|>
|> >where you travel down on a lift which moves slowly down about 20 storeys.
|> >As the platform descends you have to use the look up and down facility to
|>
|> fire twenty feet over the heads of the enemy who then die,
|> presumably of surprise.
|>
|> >take out the many aliens who are set in the walls. It`s great!!
|> >The only downside to this game is that you cant save your position to
|> >disk. You just get a code each world which means that even if you get
|> >halfway through the 5th areana before using all your lives you still
|> >have to play from the 1st areana the next time you play. I really hate
|> >this and would much prefer a save system like in Doom or at the very least
|> >a code after completing an areana. Saying that though you all know which
|> >one I`d rather be playing, even without a save system.
|> >
|> >--
|>
|>
|> Andy Clitheroe.
|>
|>
 D'ya know something? The boy Clitheroe is right again! Andy, you are god and
no-one else is worthy. The way everyone was going on about Breathless I thought
it was good or something. Orthogonal bloody walls? And how can it match up to
Andy's lighting effects. Breathless is a Skoda with racing trim, and I have no
doubt that AB3D2 will be .... er something much better (fill in the blank if you
know anything about cars please)

Phil