COMPUTER GAMES (Page 2)
It's The Ultimate City Simulator.
GAMES
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Sim City 2000
This one wins my award for most addicting computer game ever. As the mayor of a new town, it is up to you to build your ultimate city from scratch. You have the ability to put up roads, railroad tracks, tunnels, subways, schools,
police stations, airports, and much more, wherever you want to put them! Hopefully, people will like what you've done and come live in your city, but it is your job to keep them there. Build power plants and water systems to satisfy their
needs. Do people need more places to work? Create more industrial buildings for them to work in. But be careful, for too much industry will make people complain about the air pollution. Are you low on money for the construction of your city? Raise the taxes--but not too much or
people will start to leave. See the strategy involved in this game? But what I really like about it is that it is simply fun to watch your city grow. Watch large shopping malls appear or see airplanes fly above your city, and even the occasional
helicopter reporting on traffic. Keep track of your population--see how high you can get it. And if you have enough money and if you think your city is ready for it, try building futuristic city domes that rise high into the sky to take a step into the
future. After all, it's your city. You get to design it how you want it. Just be careful; you may have to face the occasional fire, tornado, earthquake or alien invasion...
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Basically, you're mission is to seek out Soren, the madman who will do anything to reach the Nexus (but you have to do a lot more than what you saw in the movie to stop him). You begin at the Armagosa Observatory, where you (Commander Riker) explore the damaged station and try to find out why it was attacked and by who. After this, the Enterprise must go from planet to planet (each new away mission features a different crew member) to stop this "star-killer" at all costs. Play Data on a planet cursed by a war between machines. Or be Troi disguised as a Romulan who must infiltrate Galondon Core and stop Soren from obtaining more Trilithium. Or, as Dr. Crusher, enter a living planet and encounter large antibodies. You know, just the kind of stuff that happens on a normal episode of Star Trek: TNG. You even get a chance to be Captain Kirk himself. So can you do it? Can you stop this evil madman before millions of lives are lost? The future of the galaxy depends on you. Can you save it?
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Rating: ***1/2
Blast your way through this exciting 3-D action game! Fly through dangerous canyons,
asteroid fields, and navigate your X-Wing through the narrow trenches on the surface of the Death Star! This game is full of all the intense action that you see in the STAR WARS movies. This game sacrifices freedom of movement for excellent 3-D rendered graphics (while in games like Wing Commander or Tie Fighter where you can fly your ship in any direction,
Rebel Assault has your ship generally fly in a particular path while you concentrate on such things as dodging canyon walls or destroying enemy Tie fighters, etc.) Increase your piloting, targeting, and combat skills in this exciting action game.
--Best Simulation Game 1993
May the force be with you...
Rating: ***1/2
Rebel Assault is back and better than ever! If you liked the first one, then you'll love the sequel. All of the action is packed onto two CD ROM's as this game now features full video sequences with live actors (something not available in the original) plus over a dozen new levels in which you face the infamous Imperial Fleet, which in this game has a secret weapon it will be using against the Rebel Alliance. You will have to use all of those piloting and fighting skills which
were necessary in the original, and some luck too, for these levels are longer, more challenging, and contain some surprises. (Oh, and you also get to ride those neat speeder bikes in the forest seen in Return of the Jedi).
"...in all, another Star Wars triumph." --USA Today
Rating: ****
This game features a cast of actors (Brian Keith: The Parent Trap, The Wind Lion, Hardcastle and McCormick), Russell Means: (The Last of the Mohicans, Natural Born Killers), Margot Kidder: (Superman I, II, and III), to name three. As for the setting, the year is 2042. You live in the Ritz Hotel in Old San Francisco. You've got your hovercar parked right outside on Chandler Avenue. Are you up for the job of a P.I.? Yes? Well, get ready for one of the most exciting comedy thrillers you've ever experienced!
(Just make sure that by the end you save the world. It's kind of required, you know.)
--Player's Note: Having only a double speed CD-ROM drive made it a bit slow for me when in movement mode, but that shouldn't be much of a problem anymore with these faster drives coming out. I recommend using a Pentium and at least a Quad speed CD drive.
"Under a Killing Moon combines the best elements of movies and computer games...it literally puts you into the screen." --Denny Atkin, Computer Magazine
Star Wars: Rebel Assault
Star Wars: Rebel Assault 2: The Hidden Empire
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Under a Killing Moon
Consisting of four CD-ROMS, you can imagine just how much this game holds. In fact, it introduces a new freedom of movement and interaction with your environment never before seen in any other game. There are two different modes: movement mode and interaction mode. The first allows you to move around wherever you are (in your apartment room, out on the street, etc.) and lets you even raise your view (imagine yourself tip-toeing) or lowing it to the ground (imagine yourself squatting). You may also look straight up or down to look for clues in not-so-evident places.
Interaction mode, as you probably guessed, lets you interact with your environment--that is, inspect clues, open drawers, talk to people--things like that. Now combine all this with wonderfully 3-D rendered graphics and some P.I. humor and what do you get? Under a Killing Moon. That's what. You play the role of private detective Tex Murphy, someone who is just trying to earn some cash. Solve your first crime to make a name for yourself. Afterwards, you can move on the bigger cases (say, saving the world) and the like. But you must be ready to explore each little detail of your environment. Leave no stone unturned and no garbage can unsearched. You never know what you'll find.Under a Killing Moon screen shot 1Under a Killing Moon screen shot 2Under a Killing Moon screen shot 3
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