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I n t R E V I E W EGATICaLi The intro sequence takes the form of a home video which shot while on holiday on Rhylanor, Your severely bespectacled guide is showing you the Ancient relics when suddenly the ground starts shaking. As the site slowly awakens toxic green slime oozes out of the corroded structure. As you leave you notice two shadowy figures fleeing the structure. Who could they be? Why were they there? What is their significance? Tune in next week to find out. Khalid Howladar leads his squad of interplanetary adventurers in a mission to save the planet Rhylanor- Gosh! Traveller 2 is the sequel to the first MegaTraveller. oWell, u I'll be blowed, what will they lthink d of next? MegaTraveller 3, prob- yably. In the meantime fans of the opopular star-spanning role-playing u series will have this to be going on bwith. Set in the far future you and eyour l four chums are interplanetary i adventurers, e ex-military geezers who, having retired, are trying to v e or _erfri .you r e
J. Bourne linucHszza rmor - 1 1 *VIP 0 *. - tir ciaact Ltsr , high -Passage ammander c Bourne fret t w i hF i I engineerinq grav vehicle oirrter view Male human e r i l str Laser lick laser weapon 3 r dm Confiscated —,-,----, pilot end E nship tactics 11 streetuese 139E' LIPP OBEPLIC irrt ovacc suit High Passage Bar* ilccmsnt edu u 01,133 sac IE t e This is where you can Examine, Use, Drop and Exchange r the various objects that you find. These are present in a scrolling window that needs to access the disk as each item appears on-screen. Also present are the skills and attributes of the characters such as hit points. career and that oh-so-important money. This can either be pooled or shared out amongst various party members as one sees fit, J.ODurne 514 Rawlings This is one place you'll be seeing quite often. Here you can either book passage on a liner (which uses pre-set passage routes) or charter a ship (useful for travelling to interdicted worlds). If you possess your own ship (it does happen you know!), this too is boarded here, and the crew automatically take the stations for which they are best suited. For example, someone with a high Pilot skill would be on the bridge, another with a high Turret skill would man the guns and so on. Fights involve selecting a target then choosing one of the relevant combat options • Attack, Flee, React (if someone shoots you, shoot back without the need for targeting) and Reserve (which sends the weaker characters into cover when the action starts). This makes for very limited player involvement which basically leaves the computer to do everything after the initial set -Space combat is pretty much the same, up. Publisher: Empire Developer, Paragon 29.99 Out Now keyboard.loystkkAilouse MEMORY DISKS 1Mb IRAHIE5 ILAYIIIIITY 115TIMITY R E V I E W THE VERDICT, Although you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, it has to be said that MegaTraveller 2 doesn't make much of a first impression. The game's graphics are very poor; the cityscapes are uninspired and the poorly-defined icons make it extremely difficult to determine which building is which. Worse, every city on each planet looks almost exactly the same. Not only is this very boring, it also serious- ly hinders any impression of exploration or progression - surely vital elements in any good RPG? Matters aren't helped by the tedious movement system that makes a big fuss about letting you go anywhere and the unexciting combat system leaves you feeling strangely detached and apathetic about the whole thing. Worst of all, however, is the incredibly tedious disk accessing, even on a dual-drive system. It seems that you can't do anything without the computer spinning the disk. A good example is at customs, a rather pointless affair where you try and sneak contraband such as guns onto planets. First the game loads the officer's jaw animation (poor at best) and,then it accesses the disk some more and for what? Just so that his face can twitch!! Would it have been so difficult to make these distressing features switched off-able, thus letting the RPGer concentrate on the actual game? Probably, but that's good old-fashioned thoughtlessness for you. I'm ustrally a great RPG fan - both on tabletop and computer - but I'm afraid any initial interest I felt just got slowly ground away. It's a pity because the MegaTraveller universe is a varied and Interesting one and the plot had a lot of potential. it's just a pity it wasn't realised. A
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