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long awaited ST version of hit has finally arrived in a ptudium edition, featuring both abr original ercenarv and 'econd City, For those who crrenary on an eight 6.4 or Plus 4, the action above, on, and un of habitation or play ri, or planet beautiful cities nd complexes v the great architect n. You are a solider of fortune who has crash-landed on Trag which has been ravaged by many years of war between its original inhabitants, the peace-loving Palyars and an alien race of robots known as the Mechanoids. Your challenge is to escape the planet by buying another ship, bought with your ill-gotten gains. The only thing you managed to salvage from the wreckage of your ship was Benson, your in-helmet, ninth generation PC. Benson will give you information on your location, compass heading, altitudes, elevation and speed as well as act as a communications buffer with the various waring Factions on Targ. Benson's other major use is in providing an interpretation of your s'as only a matter of time before tarted taking advantage of superior graphics to 'produce strineasplly exciting graphics pac e such gram is Mirr rector, programm aesar Studio in Bu A it Director is a r ' s art Program which a l to all Otrty types as aspiring erslSurprisingly, Art Director the features of the very ent Deluxe Paint (see C+ VG August 86) which runs on the graphically more advanced Amiga, and although slower in the processing department, Art Director compares very favourably to the latter. It has all the features common to most art programs such as fill, airbrush, erase, zoom, draw, geometrical shapes etc. But this package really comes into its own when you look at the way a brush, cut from the screen, can he bent. stretched, distorted, nipped, enlarged, and even made to look as ilk was being reflected off the inside or outside of a sphere or cylinder. Once Art Director is loaded you are presented with a Toolbox from which many of the more commonly needed functions can be accessed. The Toolbox can also be movedor removed SPECTACULAR view of events in stunning 3D vectorgraphics allowing you to see inside and through normally solid objects eat your heart out Superman! The action starts as you come too by the remains of the Prestinium, your trusty intergalactic craft, which is beyond repair after the crash. Luckily you have landed in Central City, which used to be one of Targ's main centres of population. Even more fortunate is that the Dominium Dart is standing not 50 feet away, and at 4,000 credits it's an absolute snip! Flying around in your newly acquired Dart you can see the whole of Central City and, from less than 250 feet, can make out individual buildings which can, of course, be zapped out of existence. Benson's controls provide you wth all the flight and navigational controls you will need while the vector graphic cockpit view it provides is as smooth as silk. Eventually Benson will receive a message inviting you to come to thr briefing room near the hanger at location 09 66. To get down to the hanger you have to land by a lift. Having descended into one of the many underground complexes, it's time to leave the dart and do a little the Atari's low resolution colour mode allowing for 16 colours on a 320x200 screen. Each screen can have up to eight palettes of 16 colours, and the program can be made to cycle through these to spectacular effect. Each colour is chosen from a total of 512 and is created by giving different values to its red, green, and blue components. Those functions not accessible from the Toolbox can be accessed from the pull-down menus in the two status bars at the tope Qf the screen as with any normal Gem application. There are a number of pictures on the two disk set as well as a selection of ready made fonts that can be used for placing text directly on the screen. This is invaluable for certain applications where words form an integral part of a screen design. Amongst the many innovative features in Art Director is the window which allows you to perform specific graphical operations (such as fill and change colour) inside the window leaving the rest of the screen unaffected. Not only does this make the window moderated functions more flexible but it also cuts down on the time spent waiting for the computer to perform those functions as it need only concern itself with a smaller area of the if inconveniently screen, placed. As with A r t Director provides you with most ST art two pages on which to paint or programs Art draw, It is normally advisable to Director uses use one as a scratch pad and the exploring. As with flying, everything underground is seen in vector graphics from a first person perspective, giving you the impression of wandering in and out of rooms and down corridors. As you explore the complex you will find various objects some of which can be picked up and used such as sights, poweramp and keys. You can also find objects that are of no use at all such as tables and chairs! Some objects, such as medical supplies and gold, can be sold for a tidy profit if you can only find a buyer. When you find the briefing room other for your main picture. But, you can also use both pages for a double-size picture s here one page fits exactly on top of the other. Using the Print Pages function you can make a hard copy of the two pages combined into one A4 shaped print-out. you will be offered a mission, and, in true mercenary tradition, may wish to only accept lucrative contracts. The beauty of this game, apart froni the stunningly smooth vector graphics, is the element of strategy required to negotiate the diplomatic minefield you must necessarily create for yourself by accepting missions from both sides in the continuing war on Targ. Complete with The Second City, which takes you to Targ's dust. covered southern hemisphere, and the Targ Survival Kit, in case you get too lost, Mercenary will be a high flyer amongst STgamesters, Although there are certain aspects of the user interface in Art Director that could have been a more friendly, the program's wealth of powerful and useful features makes its one of the best graphics packages yet seen for the Si..
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