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- From: JMoylan@cup.portal.com (John Thomas Moylan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
- Subject: Re: DARKLANDS short review
- Message-ID: <65093@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 19:33:47 PDT
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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- References: <1992Aug30.174318.58510@cc.usu.edu>
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- ...unfortunately its just a tactical combat simulator, just like Omnitrend's
- Paladin, with the tiniest effort at making it into an RPG(which it COMPLETELY
- fails at, as there are no puzzles, etc. of real RPGs, just the endless
- HACK 'N SLASH, FAR worse than the SSI AD&D games...at least they have some
- attempt at puzzle solving...)...
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- I still cannot figure out why this game is big, unless they did not compress
- the graphics files, the game does not do enough to warrant the 18+ mb size,
- as it is just a wargame w/lousy movement AI, and ALOT of bugs(they did not
- do a very good job on it for spending 2 years on it, their stock price
- should reflect the poort quality of their recent releases(B-17 & Darklands),
- they might get the idea that half-finished, hurried products are nothing but
- trash...
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