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- From: veikko@vipunen.hut.fi (Vesa J Pyyluoma)
- Subject: Wayne Gretzky Hockey III (huh?)
- Message-ID: <VEIKKO.92Sep1152539@vipunen.hut.fi>
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- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
- Distribution: comp
- Date: 1 Sep 92 15:25:39
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- Yet another Real Soon Now release or what? A local dealer boldly
- expects to have WGH III in stock by the end of the month. Does
- *anyone* have *anything* on this one??
-
- Personally, I'm holding my breath to see some of my wishlist items
- implemented in The New And Improved ver.III, such as:
-
- - real smooth present day _VGA_!! ( mere mortals have been wasted for lesser
- reasons than just releasing WGH II with the same ole blocky EGA looks )
-
- - a graphical user interface for the game and team setup menus that's
- been designed for the 90s ( I guess Bethesda people never had HDs
- bigger than 40MB, or why is it that WGH never recognised partitions
- E and up... :-)
-
- - no more silly bugs ( like players skating all over the stands in slow
- motion replay, or system crash-and-burn during post-game replays... )
-
- - refined AI logic ( among the very few usable new features that WGH II
- really provided were improvements here but there's still oh so much to
- be done)
-
- - more hockey like feel!! WGH I and II feel and look like fast arcade
- games but what you see on the screen doesn't really resemble skillful
- modern-day hockey (oh well, maybe the NHL style but... ;')
-
- - League Simulator or whatever *integrated* in the game a la TV Sports
- xxxxball! Selling LS as a separate unit is one of the silliest pranks
- I've come across, topped possibly only by the separate Canada Cup
- edition of WGH II sold for full $$$. Makes me wonder they didn't call
- _that_ one WGH III...
-
- Ahhh! That felt good, being able to let some steam out after all this
- time! Oh well, I guess WGH III never really materializes. Or then
- it's yet another Bethesda marketing stunt, like League Simulator
- packed with WGH II with a few of the most evident bugs corrected. All
- in EGA for 1992 and on. That would make my day!
-
- cheers,
-
- Vesa J Pyyluoma veikko@vipunen.hut.fi DoD#0512
- Avionics rules! Helsinki Univ. of Tech, Finland
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