szy@Apple.COM (Steven J. Szymanski) (02/09/91)
Can anyone provide a review on the game COM-BAT for the mac? It appears to
be yet another ported tank combat game. How's the game? How's the mac
interface?
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UUCP: {sun,voder,amdahl,decwrl}!apple!szy held responsible for my raving"clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson) (02/11/91)
In article <48963@apple.Apple.COM> szy@Apple.COM (Steven J. Szymanski) writes: >Can anyone provide a review on the game COM-BAT for the mac? It appears to >be yet another ported tank combat game. How's the game? How's the mac >interface? Well, I can't provide a lot of info, since the copy I rented failed to run on either my home SE/30 under 6.0.7 or on my work IIci under 6.0.5. I can tell you... The game has a manual-based CP scheme, i.e. "Please enter the third word of line 10 on page 45:" Graphics are cheesy. [on the IIci, the game did live long enough for me to note this] Units cannot be damaged by friendly fire. Terrain and buildings are indestructible. Overall, just reading the manual, I was less than overwhelmed. Then again, I haven't played it. chaz -- Someone please release me from this trance. clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu AOL:Crowbone
cem@cs.brown.edu (Charles E. Moylan) (02/12/91)
In article <3249@ux.acs.umn.edu>, clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson) writes: |> In article <48963@apple.Apple.COM> szy@Apple.COM (Steven J. Szymanski) writes: |> >Can anyone provide a review on the game COM-BAT for the mac? It appears to |> >be yet another ported tank combat game. How's the game? How's the mac |> >interface? |> |> Graphics are cheesy. [on the IIci, the game did live long enough for me to note |> this] |> |> Units cannot be damaged by friendly fire. |> |> Terrain and buildings are indestructible. |> |> Overall, just reading the manual, I was less than overwhelmed. |> |> Then again, I haven't played it. I agree with this and would like to add that I _have_ played the game and was considerably UNDERwhelmed by it. Luckily I played a friend's copy of the game and based on that experience chose not to waste my money on my own copy. The mac interface is pretty lousy. -- Charlie Moylan (cem@cs.brown.edu)
dlinder@eagle.wesleyan.edu (02/13/91)
In article <48963@apple.Apple.COM>, szy@Apple.COM (Steven J. Szymanski) writes: > Can anyone provide a review on the game COM-BAT for the mac? It appears to > be yet another ported tank combat game. How's the game? How's the mac > interface? > > -- Ahhhrrg! Please save yourself the money and do not buy this game. I wasted thirty some odd bucks on this boring, stupid, mechanical excuse for a war simulation. It kept my attention for approximately two hours and I haven't played it since. Even the sounds are bad. It's pretty boring. [Of course all the above is IMHO] good luck peace. dml