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Subject: Re: Doom is NOT Dead; The
From: tim.knowlton@mgmtsys.com (Tim Knowlton)
Message-ID: <90.13398.651@mgmtsys.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 94 10:09:00 -0500
Organization: Software Valley Information System 304-592-2682 800-SOFT-VAL
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Now quoting what The Rink yelled at All :
>> Doom is an okay game and was fun, but was just another shoot 'em up. UFO is
>> F@#ckin awesome and requires thinking.
>
>Uh, to my knowledge, there isn't any other shoot 'em up like Doom. The
>next bext thing is perhaps Virtua Fighter, but they haven't made an
>Intel port yet :-)
>
>"Just another shoot' em up" is the understatement of the century,
>don't you think?
TR> Not really. Doom is "just another shoot em up" with great graphics.
TR> Beyond the graphics, there is not much of a game. It has modem
TR> support which is cool, but this could be added with virtually any shoot
TR> em up game and you'd get similar results minus the graphics.
TR> Personally, I look for more in a game than graphic displays. Raptor
TR> kicks Doom's butt on both gameplay _and_ graphics; it just doesn't have
TR> the modem support -- and Raptor isn't much for gameplay either, though
TR> I enjoy it a lot.
Right. But no one HAS done that yet (a modem game with great graphix...).
That's why DOOM is still the best...
-Tim
... I'm not broke, I'm `finacially challenged'.
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