Amiga Computing - Commodore Is Awesome
Amiga Computing - Commodore Is Awesome
Amiga Computing - Commodore Is Awesome
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Manual read<br />
I'm not really the sort of person who'll sift<br />
through the manual to find Mlle bits of information<br />
- well, maybe I should hove but I didn't.<br />
And I knew if I did look in the manual, there was<br />
no way I'd find an option entitled 'Change<br />
game completely: My hopes were dashed! I<br />
was upset, I was glad, because at least I hadn't<br />
spent about £30 on it.<br />
The mouse pointer has turned into a rather<br />
attractive star... Ahhh. twinkle, twinkle<br />
Hurrah, it's all installed! As I double-clicked on the<br />
program icon, I carefully positioned the mouse to<br />
make as little movement as possible, and it gave<br />
me reboot deja vu. "It's going to crash! It is. it is—<br />
It did!!! N0000," To my surprise. It didn't, and without<br />
haste it displayed a requester: 'This will reboot<br />
your machine'. Well thank-you very much.<br />
As soon as the hard drive light stopped flickering<br />
like an epileptic Christmas light. Star Crusader<br />
had landed. Boy, was I happy - relieved too!<br />
There followed some nice introduction screens,<br />
and a very long wait for the game to appear.<br />
Another cup of tea? Oh yes, please.<br />
When I returned, a strange alien-like object<br />
was displayed on-screen and after careful<br />
manipulation of the mouse, a small star highlighted<br />
various options - which to the human eye<br />
1Look, UFOs! Well, they would be apart from the<br />
fact they're actually identified objects. Ho hum<br />
hal word<br />
I will apologise If you were<br />
expecting a high flying space<br />
epic, accompanied by on<br />
informative, factual review, If<br />
I'd told you everything about<br />
the game and then said It<br />
was utter rubbish, what's the<br />
point? If a friend told you a<br />
realty boring story, would you<br />
ask him to tell it again, only in<br />
more detail. No? I didn't think<br />
so.<br />
My job is not to build-up the<br />
game until it sounds Ilke the<br />
best thing ever. It is to inform<br />
you of how it plays. If it's worth<br />
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you many more useful things. And still,<br />
you don't know what you're doing<br />
were damn near unreadable. A quick guess later<br />
and I was escorted to what looked like a mission<br />
briefing room - indeed it was! There were some<br />
digitised faces at the top of the screen announc-<br />
ing something. c They did go on for a while, and to<br />
be completely honest, I didn't take much notice<br />
of the dialogue. If I had, you certainly wouldn't<br />
be reading this now.<br />
After this, a cool guy on a computer-like swivel<br />
chair showed me what looked like some more<br />
mission briefings and led me to some more<br />
options. Blimey, I thought, there's a lot to this -<br />
and I haven't even done anything yet!<br />
When I finally got out into space. I was<br />
actually pretty disappointed. Although there was<br />
a nice ray-traced intro bit that lasted about 0.75<br />
seconds, I was left severely despondent. I didn't<br />
seem to hove much control over the spaceship,<br />
and even after realising the mouse wasn't<br />
plugged In, I still didn't have much control. The<br />
scrolling was extremely Jerky, and I had to check<br />
that a) the accelerator board was in and, b) if it<br />
was working<br />
What mode my misery complete was that I<br />
couldn't even get out of the game when<br />
I wanted to - it was as if it had grabbed me<br />
through the monitor and said 'play me!' I<br />
couldn't put it down. probably because I was in<br />
the hope of it getting better - either that or a<br />
power cut.<br />
the money, and most of all, if<br />
it's any good. And that's what I<br />
believe I have done.<br />
I'm being absolutely straight<br />
with you now - don't believe<br />
the hype. What hype? I hear<br />
you soy. Good point, is my<br />
reply.<br />
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absolutely<br />
straight with<br />
you now -<br />
don't believe<br />
the hype.<br />
What hype? I<br />
hear you say<br />
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