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soF memory then SSG would do better to scrap them M O N T E Z U M A is altogether. a problem letting of computer the player rely on the printed maps that they supply with the game. This would produce something like on adventure game, with the player in his "command post" receiving reports on the baffle from outside. The Battlefront game mechanism used in Halls of Montezuma produces a one or two player game in -- A Montezuma makes historical gaffs. A t et down by rudimentary graphics. m o m must be divided into up to three main units, but no i r e . This did not work well lw MACHINES: CBM 64, Marines from the assault on Halls of Montezuma. "oh wi n Battles in Normandyand APPLE II. M e x i c o City in 1848 which no, not again!" w o rhk s even less well for N. i ARTS GROUP. - FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES (and the Marine Hymn its continued awfulness of the City itself, the teaching c S1 PRICE; E18.95, fi r s t line) through the taking SSG Battlefront style scenario, is among those , IP- VERSION TESTED: CBM 64. of Belleau Wood in France graphics. In land considerably h altered from U• ID. REVIEWER: STEVE BADSEY. i n World War One, plus wargames, maps are history e to fit the game. (It P• one scenario for Iwo Jima absolutely crucial to w a s a surprise, The Australians of SSG have and two for Okinawa in understanding what is commanding a the North gone P all out for the W o r l d War Two, the Inchon going on, where your own c Koreans, to learn that the American L market with this landings and defence of forces are and what the h computer thought my "battle I history of the United Pusan in the Korean War, enemy is likely to do. The forces were "The Axis".) But States s E Marine Corps" in a n d the recapture of Hue SSG hex-map does not t h e game is not all bad. eight scenarios. It judges citadel in Vietnam. In s h o w the whole battlefield i The method of selecting the R Marines by their own addition, as is now normal properly and dissolves highlighted d options and standards : - they are w i t h SSG games, the disk rather than scrolls, interrogating your forces almost e E as good as they contains a design section, making it very difficult to down to two levels below think they are - but unlike which with SSG's Warp/on read (and giving you an ' your command, by for the some L American games a n d Warpaint routines almighty headache). Any s best mechanism of the does E not make them a l r e a d y added allows you units shown on it move in f a game, remains as good as completely C bullet-proof. t o edit every useful unit completely unrealistic way ever. o T Using the same a n d terrain icon in the a n d are often not W h a t is worrying is that mechanisms as, and fully game and create any recognisable as either trh e earliest of the SSG compatible R with, their scenario you desire, down friend or enemy. The map c games, the strategy games earlier O games Battlefront t o the weather. a c t u a l l y gets in the way of such as Reach for the Stars and Battles in Normandy, W h y then, did I find t h e game. a n e d Carriers at War, N this game follows the m y s e l f thinking as I played I f improving the graphics s remain, for me, by far their I V best. Operational land C g i v e 3:7±-' s t • 2 4 ' .1 h Lai/ Z —' • Z • Z1 e 4 fader -oncoll t / g 1UMWORIN minim -olood / no loos 9 WOW Div -145 -000d Ro1 / / LOB UN4/6A111 *Don I • a 1 A Maps and icons syndrome prevails. A m e i t s n a m e warfare requires a different I games system, and far l better graphics than this. l On the other hand, if you i EDIT liked Battlefront, then Hails n sTA* of Montezuma is for you. n e IT r Oon,Korib000shi : 1 8 p 0 VALUE7 r 7 PLAYABILITY 7 i Moi.Oen.OchnIdt G t 10h Major Schmidt squares up to General Kuribayashi. R - M A1 i — O r t PV h H E I CR S A — L
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