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- Disk No: 2980
- Disk Title: Empire
- PC-SIG Version: S1
-
- Program Title: Empire
- Author Version: 9/91
- Author Registration: $15.00
- Special Requirements: 512K RAM, EGA/VGA, and high density drive. A mouse
- is optional.
-
- Empire is a different kind of role-playing game. In it, up to four
- people take on roles of dictators and compete to conquer the world. Each
- player is given an equal number of armies, and takes turns moving them
- from country to country, attacking, and being attacked. An interesting
- twist of this game is that each dictator is assigned a political
- idealogy and, as you conquer countries, the occupants may be friendly or
- unfriendly. Friendly countries take less troops to occupy, and
- unfriendly countries can rebel and throw your troops out.
-
- Use the program's world and continent maps to determine your troop
- deployments. The maps are nicely designed, and you can use a mouse to
- move around. When you want to move or attack, all possible choices are
- displayed on pop-up menus for easy selection. When you do attack, a
- window opens up and you see small representations of men and tanks
- blowing each other up. The outcome of any battle is random, with the
- dictator having the most armies in the battle favored.
-
- Game design and graphics are well done. This is a solid version of the
- traditional military-strategy game. You can play one-on-one with the
- computer, but that can be a little boring. The real fun is when you
- have more than two human adversaries, and that's when the strategy gets
- interesting and challenging.
-
- Military-strategy games have been around a long time, and Empire has put
- a pretty face on this traditional game. It doesn't have the fast action
- of an arcade game, but if you're a fan of military-strategy games,
- Empire deserves a closer look.
-
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