bruceh@mentor.com (Bruce Holm) (05/05/90)
Anybody seen/played the new game called "Sands of Fire"? I got the
new MacWarehouse Catalog yesterday and saw this game by Three-Sixty
in it. Being a strategy wargamer buff, this sounds like something
I'd like. If you have any info on it please respond via a posting
or e-mail.
Is is a strategy game or is it an arcade game?
How hard is it?
Does it keep you rivited to your chair or easily loose interest?
What playing methods does it use?
...etc...
--Bruce
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Mentor Graphics Corp. / USENET: bruceh@pdx.MENTOR.COM
Beaverton, OR 97005-7191 / UUCP: ...!{sequent,tessi,apollo}!mntgfx!bruceh dbarnhar@oiscola.Columbia.NCR.COM (05/07/90)
In article <1990May4.193358.1805@mentor.com> bruceh@mentor.com (Bruce Holm) writes: >Anybody seen/played the new game called "Sands of Fire"? I got the >new MacWarehouse Catalog yesterday and saw this game by Three-Sixty >in it. Being a strategy wargamer buff, this sounds like something >I'd like. If you have any info on it please respond via a posting >or e-mail. > >Is is a strategy game or is it an arcade game? >How hard is it? >Does it keep you rivited to your chair or easily loose interest? >What playing methods does it use? >...etc... > >--Bruce > Take these comments with a grain of salt. I'm responding for a friend who has this game, but doesn't have net access. Sands of Fire is a little of both arcade and strategy. As the title may imply for those of you in the know, the setting for the game is WWII tank battles in Africa. There are several missions you can choose from. You can play either the Americans or the British (against the Germans), but you can't be the Germans. You end up having a view of the game from inside the tank, and you control your tank's actions, and the rest of the members of your squad act similarly. My friend (who enjoys all those complicated wargames, computer or no), really enjoys this game, but it does have one major problem. He brought it over to play on my Mac IIcx (he has a plus), and the game runs WAY TOO FAST. We searched the documentation to find out a way to slow it down, but couldn't find anything. Perhaps they have a new version that fixes this problem, but for the version he has, it plays better on the Plus than on my machine. It is interesting, but unrealistic, to battle tanks that zip around the landscape like jeeps or something. Other than this speed problem, the game runs just fine on a IIcx running 6.0.4 and zillions of INITs, including Color Quickdraw, but it doesn't use the color. This synopses should give you a little better idea about the game, but you should still try it out before you decide whether or not it is for you. Judging from my friend's reactions to the game, there are certainly some of you out there who would enjoy it, but it's not for me (I'm not really into wargame simulations, realistic or otherwise). Dave Barnhart NCR Cooperative Computing Systems Division 3245 Platt Springs Rd. West Columbia, SC 29169 email: uunet!ncrlnk!ncrcae!secola!oiscola!dbarnhar