In response to the request for a review of the new MT II computer game
I can be of no help but I can offer my opinion of the MT I computer game.
Overall the game is good. I liked the graphics. The ship to ship combat
is fun and reasonably easy to do. Exploring with the characters (there are
five characters) is also easy to do (ie nice, simple to use interface).
The big fault in the game is the combat (man to man) interface. You can
only be one character at a time in combat mode and while switching between
them is not difficult it is not practical during combat. So you attack
with only one character while the other four stand still, don't fire, and
get killed. This is particularly bad if your computer is especially fast.
This may sound like a BIG problem but thus far I have only encountered one
spot in the game where you really notice the problem. Other places in the
game have required several attempts (save and restore) to get through with
out losing any characters but this one spot always kills off most or all
of my characters (grenade launchers are killers!).
A better interface, in my opinion, would be like the combat interface used
in Sentinel Worlds by Electronic Arts. The leader selects a target and ALL
characters (even those not directly controlled) attack that target.
Any way with that one exception the game is fun and entertaining and very
much like playing Traveller. The character generation system is exactly
like the basic system used by the game.
Hope this is somewhat useful/informative. Sorry for the randomness of
this response but sometimes life is just a little chaotic...like now.
Later!
Tony L. Hayes - I'd rather be gaming!
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T.L.Hayes |
MIT/Lincoln Laboratory | "He IS a Borg!" - Worf
Lexington, MA |