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- From: hchong@netcom.com (Hoi Chong)
- Subject: Re: F-15 Strike Eagle III
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.220336.25962@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <1992Dec19.175433.19548@news.columbia.edu>
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 22:03:36 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- From article <1992Dec19.175433.19548@news.columbia.edu>, by imj1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Imad M Jureidini):
- > In article <1992Dec19.063148.3514@news.columbia.edu> imj1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Imad M Jureidini) writes:
- >>I have only one thing to say:
- >>
- >> The game sucks.
- >>
- >>I just erased of my hard drive.
- >>
- >>The reason?
- >>The animation on my 486/50 16 megs was basically the same as in the demo, which means terrible.
- >>The detail is very bad too. This reminded me of Maximum Overkill, where the
- >>pixels are quite big. But for Comanche, we were rewarded with very fast
- >>animation. Not so here.
- >>
- >>I played for half an hour, so I didn't even bother to get into the missions. I
- >>only played one, and there was no background storyline that you followed, just:
- >>Go there. Shoot that. Then go there. Shoot that. Then come back. Land.
- >>Really exciting.
- >>
- >>Anyway, no one should judge a game by hearing just one opinion, so I suggest
- >>that whoever is planning on getting the game waits a little to hear other
- >>reactions. Maybe I am expecting too much...
- >>
- >>*******************************************************************************
- >>* imj1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu Imad "Hexabyte" Jureidini *
- >>* The Ultimate Knight, Grand Priest of the Secrets of the Undefined. *
- >>*******************************************************************************
- >
- > This is me again. I forgot to mention I was using the sbos TSR while running
- > the program (I have a Gravis Ultrasound). I tried again without, and the
- > animation was better. I still didn't think it was good enough though...
-
- Just curious, how much slowdown did SBOS caused? If you are a consumate
- gamer, is the slow down enough not to buy Gravis?
-