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- KINGS QUEST VI
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- ¾King's Quest VI Review
- ¢By²:¹ Plugster/Defiance
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-
- ²The company Sierra has been out of the
- Amiga industry since mid 1992. Their
- last game was a game based on Robin
- Hood (the name escapes me at this
- time). When that game was released,
- Sierra's last words to the Amiga
- community was that the Amiga was a
- poor computer and that the games they
- were going to release would not work
- on the Amiga. With that they left the
- Amiga platform for the other
- "advanced" computers.
-
- Though Sierra hasn't really entered
- the Amiga platform again, they have
- given the rights to Revolusion
- Software to do a port. In case you
- don't know, Revolusion Software was
- the company that released "Beneath A
- Steel Sky", one of my personal
- favorites. I have no doubts that this
- game will be a hit also.
-
- One thing I dislike is Sierra takes
- all credit for the game "King's Quest
- VI". No where on the box or in the
- manual is Revolusion Software
- mentioned. I just feel this is a bit
- unfair and that RS should recieve some
- credit.
-
- Now onto the actual game. Installing
- to a hard disk is not a quick
- procedure. So be ready to do
- something while the program installs.
- ¶²It doesn't take as long as "BASS", but
- that's because it only has 10 disks
- compared to "BASS"'s 15 disks. It
- takes an estimated 1 hour and 15
- minutes to install. Remember that
- this was installing with a 68000
- processor, it might be sped up if you
- have a faster processor.
-
- Though the graphics are nice, they
- don't attract me to them like some
- other games. RS did a good job at
- changing the graphics from 256 colors
- to the ECS 32 colors. They are nice,
- but not real great. The animation is
- choppy at some points, but MUCH faster
- than "King's Quest V" was. This, I'm
- sure, is also due to the fact I only
- have a 68000 processor. My guess
- would be 68020 would be good, but
- 68030 would be the best. I don't know
- how fast the game will be with a 68040
- and I can't even imagine what a 68060
- will do.
-
- The inventory pictures are another
- thing entirely. They are all in a
- tannish color. Some of the pictures
- don't look anything like what they're
- supposed to be. They could have
- spiced this up a bit.
-
- The music is nice. But it seems that
- there is only one piece of music. No
- matter where you go, the music is the
- same. To bad you can't shut it off
- some how.
-
- The puzzles are complex, but very
- logical. The usual Sierra game. You
- can't pick up a weapon, like a sword,
- but you can pick up a tooth pick. For
- ¶²the most part, the puzzles will take a
- little thinking to figure out.
-
- LIKES AND DISLIKES
-
- I like the fact that a game company
- like Sierra who said they'd never
- produce a game for the Amiga again
- finally realized the Amiga IS capable
- of playing their games. It's also a
- nice fact that Sierra realized that
- they don't know how to program for the
- Amiga so they got a company who DOES
- know to port "KQ6" for them. They may
- be becoming brighter. Any other
- "likes"? No. Everything about the
- game is just plain average. Music
- isn't special, graphics aren't
- special, game plot isn't special,
- etc...
-
- Dislikes are another story completely.
- There is no way to exit the game when
- your done so you have to reboot. I
- don't like how long the game takes to
- install on a hard disk. When you die
- in the game, you to go through the
- entire opening sequence from when you
- wash ashore. Not all the bugs have
- been taken out of the game (e.g. once
- I walked into the library to find the
- librarian was missing half his body.
- Another example is when I wanted to
- talk to a book worm, I had to talk to
- him from a stack of books behind him)
- A final thing I dislike is that the
- Amiga version has a few things removed
- from the original IBM version. I
- called Sierra to find out what they
- all removed, but they didn't know
- (duh!).
-
- ¶²
- ¾Ratings:
-
- Graphics: 80%
- Gameplay: 85%
- Control: 80%
- Sound: 80%
-
- ¹OVERALL RATING: 83%
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