Classic Game Review: Wizplus

"WIZPLUS" (WP) is a utility designed to change the characters and the gaming environment that made the game of magic attracting many earned enthusiastic nationwide menu driven. WP has options to allow editing of all attributes associated with the character of individual game. In addition material which would normally be won by the intrepid adventures need only be selected from a list with an option called "boltacs SWINDLE." WIZPLUS impact play in the first two scenarios of magic allowing the player to circumvent the careful game design, allowing progress through adventures. WP also has excellent documentation is well written and illustrated.

This program covers all facets of the modification of your favourite character. Using this utility, it is possible to find "out" figures, one of the most frustrating disaster that may occur while playing magic. Life points can be recovered, ability scores, golden age, or modification of experience points. WP will also change your level of experience of characters Favorites, name, password, race, status, possible hit points, class, alignment and finally, cleverly adds two priest and Mage spells without benefit of ordination.

There is also an option called the special WizPlus Madi, making characters ok status (even if deleted), allows to lower the age, defines the status itself, in the and finally defines the possible number of spells that can be expressed. Other options on the menu allow the display of your character attributes, recovery of the backup in version 1.0 of magic, characters or character movement between scenarios without deleting the previous scenario. [Note: backups should be made prior to WizPlus, as on three separate occasions when writing a return character to poorly worked program scenario and characters have been permanently lost.]

The author of WizPlus indicates the abuse of its program will destroy the balance that magic authors have designed in their games. A serious problem exists also the use of this program, as once a character has been changed, it will not be

Possible transfer the "spirit of ancestor" in the third scenario "the legacy of LLYLGAMYN". Improvements in the new scenario increasing game speed, the characters that have been modified not transfer. Thus, those players who had the first two games should be aware that the use of destroyed WizPlus of the characters in the supplementary exhibit in this exciting series. WizPlus should be used with great caution or spirit adventures will be diluted and, more important still, you cannot continue with this exciting series. Bob Reams ed. note - Sir-tech, says that if your engineering program has been modified by WizPlus the warranty on your disk for Magic is most honoured.

Classic game review: Valley of the Kings

In this action-adventure set in the ancient Egypt, you guide a character animated through a maze of passages, collect valuable items and fight or manoeuvre around to an array of guards, trolls and other beasts. Documentation is well written. Nobody should have no difficulty in knowing what to do. Adventure consists of three distinct phases. In the first phase, remove you all valuables and arms that are found in adventure. In the second phase, you travel through a maze of crossroads that double back on themselves. And, in the third phase, you try to outwit a couple of crazy creatures that you want to zap back to the first room in the phase III. This game has a number of features that make it interesting and somewhat different from most adventures. Firstly, the character that you move has internal animation (even if it is a single color).

Then game manufacturer has designed a smart way to reveal clues and the identity of objects you: simply pass the character on the object and its identity appears in the text window. The message of the text window continues to re-emerge, even if you don't want, until you clear the object. If the object is of some use or value, it is automatically added to your inventory.

Thanks to a technique of programming called "page-flipping", rooms, passages and other places appear fully drawn. Just move your character to the left coast and blip! It is on the right side of the screen in a place brand-new. Of course, this also works with right, top and bottom. Places and characters does not adequately convey or carry Egyptian adventure theme. For example, what is a troll on a bridge in Egypt? With a bit more thinking, the author could use appropriate mythical characters. And it might have decorated the borders of the rooms with Egyptian motifs, such as leaves of Palm trees and hieroglyphics. As it is, has nothing onscreen to really enhance the theme of the Egyptian framework for adventure.

The game starts by offering you an option to read a brief summary of scenario. Once past that your character appears on a road with two signs; and you're on your adventure! You read the signs, and then move your character on the pavement, collect coins, rings and swords. Unlike most other adventures, there is no limit to how many you can run. In addition, many objects have values (such as rings and coins) will help your score at the end, but are of no particular use in adventure. Curiously, you get all the points that contribute to your score in the first phase of the adventure.

Therefore, you can only lose points. It is a matter of maintenance for you. The author provides a number of tips for adventures and the top rating. It is to wait and observe the movements of each villain to try out the manoeuvre he never battle with a villain to unless told to do (or you'll get zapper to a room earlier) and, if the bad guy gets too close, running room. You can see your inventory, your score, a list of characters for adventure, or even light a match, controlled by joystick or by typing an appropriate letter. Access to these features with the joystick is a little difficult, the game does not require that you type directions or commands and there is no feature "save game" (nor is there a real need for one).

It is not, I repeat, not a heavyweight adventure. In fact, it can be completed in less than an hour. But this does not mean that it's not fun. It is, and it is probably as much for new or younger adventurers. Adventure conventions, such as find matches (or other source of light) and their use in light dark passages are not considered as puzzles.

Instructions clearly tell you that you have found. And at least one of the places where you use is clearly labelled. However, given that its set value is not derived from solve riddles and puzzles, but rather manoeuvres character on screen, there are lots of fun to be had by replay of adventure to try to beat your last score.

Classic video game review: Scholarship

Screen resembles the band electronic ticker above a trading floor of a regional stock market and the nature of "real time" environment of dynamic market effectively simulates reality missing many investment strategy games. The game also offers an advantage over the investment of several strategy games that players can compete in the same market environment. Those who want a "beer and pretzels" type game of investment will be pleased with the fast and the "language at gunpoint" market stock video (VSM).

However, it does really not for simulations of investment which reflect the conditions of real investment or for the use of a coherent strategy. First, none of the available titles have a fairly good long-term prospects. For example, glass offers little hope, because the stained glass windows of the churches is a shrinking market. This investment is, in fact, as the documentation notes "..."a shattering experience. "Well, who did not want to invest in a company as fifth, a distillery which frameworks would like"... "drink foot all profits? »

All companies have anything major wrong with them. The goal of the game is perhaps to drive investors to scrutinize their prospective real life more before any investment.

Second, lack of information and media (other than corporate Synopsis provided in short documentation negatives) would prevent any sound investment decision. All decisions in VSM must be made on the performance of the market in a particular game and that can change much more rapidly than the "real" market stock. VSM has its interesting facets, however. Even in the solitaire game, the player must attempt to overcome the 4 basic approaches. The first approach is the purchase of stock at the beginning of the game and holding until the end.

Every day, Timothy, another player to computer, sell all its shares to buy the stock closed lower on the eve. Only, Gregory, another player to computer, buys and sells at the beginning of the week made race based on the best in the previous week. Helena, the more conservative opponent, has simply invested his money in a local Bank and counting its interests. The goal of the game is to make the most money within a period of 12 weeks. It is an easy and useful as an evening of light and friendly game between other games "beer and pretzel" and quick access (average 1 and 1/2 h).

Classic Game Review: Zenji

Many people play video games to experience 'flux' experience nearly the Mystic where you forget yourself, where you and the game becomes an and your impeccable performance seems to come from somewhere deep inside of you. Some the found in Defender, others of Pac - Man and Centipede. It was wonderful to find in an elegant, beautifully designed game named Zenji. Zenji is a feast for the senses and the spirit. Its purpose is enough - simple to connect to a grid of T, I and l-shaped a central section with rotating exhibits to create channels. Green rooms connected to a central "source". the available path when you arrive at the centre of a room, you can rotate it by holding the joystick button and moving the joystick left or right (I tested the Atari 400/800 version).

You start with five "faces" and "losing face" (pester!) when the timer at the bottom of the screen goes to zero, or when you are affected by the spirits of Illusion (stray opponents appearing at higher levels) or the flames of desire, sometimes they shoot at you. And a delicate, Oriental melody improves the game, a beep sound urgent, concentration-breaking seems to higher levels. You score points for touching the disappearance of the bonus pieces and connecting all parts source of lease time. Although the game appears to be quiet, it is not. This is a puzzle with a time limit. The puzzle itself is exquisite, because any movement (a piece of rotation) change pieces over the entire width of the Commission.

With ten seconds on the clock and a non-connected room, you may suddenly realize that several key pieces must be reoriented to provide a different set of paths to reconnect all the parts - and when your hands are this connection to the last second when your brain look dully in indecision, you know that you have accomplished something. As with most video games, you play several rounds of Zenji before stop you feeling intimidated by it. Fortunately, the first two levels are 3-by-4; later levels get more wide (up to 7-by-6) and faster. Your first score will be from 2 to 4 000, but you will soon evolve scores game from 7 000 to 10 000. My highest score is to present some 16,000, and a friend (sigh) doubled that. This game is not for everyone. He left about half the people bit impressed, but thrilled and overwhelmed the rest.

Unfortunately, there is no key of "break" for the game. A learner slow like me, I wanted time to pause between levels (well, to the study of the Commission, actually), but I suspect that the game has been this way to prevent the overview of designing successive levels. In addition, the Atari version could not start the next game by pressing the fire button. You must achieve on the computer and hit the Start button. Finally, I have two indices of strategy to maximize your score, go for bonus vanishing pieces as quickly as possible without risking losing a life, that you will never receive high scores filling levels only. Second, a way to survive adversaries dangerous "illusion" on the upper levels is to isolate quickly at least one of them in a corner having no connection to the Commission.

Done correctly, you can interconnect the Board of Directors, then turning a key component of most, connect to the remaining part and thus to finish the level before the adversary can touch you. If you like geometric puzzles and games like Othello, you as Zenji It is a classic potential and offers exceptional value for money.

Classic game review: Rainbow Southend

Captain Hans lowered his binoculars, fire red eyes of futile to try to pierce the grey fog. He blink his eyes and return to horizon scanning. There were, English has been creeping fog try another futile assault on the GRAF SPEE. Under the sky of the South (USS) is a combination of strategic and tactical level game of naval war, with the action happening in the South Atlantic shipping routes. USS can be played either alone or as a game for two players. However, in the game for two players, many players feel as the German player has enough to do, as there is only a single German warship. Nevertheless, the German side is difficult to play in the policy version. Game mechanics begin bearing a resemblance to a game earlier SSI, pursuit of the Graf Spee. Once one gets tactical display, however, there is a big difference.

USS added a silhouette for the attacker ship and its target and a radar screen to show the relative positions of vessels of the commitment. When there is an air attack, the screen shows aircraft toward silhouette of the GRAF SPEE. When ships are sunk, the screen displays an explosion on the silhouette of the target. USS also allows players establish game within a more flexible than the game earlier, more historically bound. ASU is extremely interesting and difficult to play. He has some problems, however. Many of the problems with the game first in low documentation. For example, the documentation for the operational commands does not say German not type the parentheses around the, coordinates x y when the prompt for item 5 comes with x and y, placed in parentheses. In our first match, a German captain spent almost half an hour by trying to get the program to take his order. A similar misunderstanding arises in the rules of tactics. The use of the expression in parentheses (Graf Spee) after command 4.1.3 (fire main and secondary guns) gives the impression that only available for the allied player weapons is his torpedoes.

I hesitate much too long to use my fire main gun of my opener because I didn't think my shells could actually penetrate armor of the Graf Spee. The parenthesis should follow only the 4.1.2 command. A bigger problem that documentation must be found to actually play the tactical part of game. If the deck of a ship is hit and undergoes the maximum damage, control of the ship is supposed to be transferred to the rear Tower. Yet, the program has no order for this procedure to take place. If the allied player orders the ship to keep the course, it is said that he cannot do so due to the loss of the bridge.

If he tries to change course, there can be no which is, of course. Unfortunately, the only command that works in this situation is disengagement. It is a frustrating, glitch as I would often sink rather than to opt into tactical battle. Strategic advice on page 14 of documentation are generally useful. The German will normally be able to escape the British if he avoids the coastal areas of high density. The allied player should note, however, given that fuel availability plays an important factor in the game, it is important patrolling neutral ports. In the tactical game, book is right in suggesting an aggressive offensive attitude. Allies must follow the tradition of NELSON suggested, but don't forget to change at least ten degrees of course after the Graf Spee triggers on him. This will entail the German captain having to re-target his guns. While allowing player alloy to keep its general vector aimed at the Graf Spee during tactical game play together.

USS is a fascinating to play game. As a fan of thumbnails, I've always been interested in games that involve "blind play" and USS does a very good job in this (Exception: when commodore Allied orders an air strike, the German captain alert will know where the Allied ships are, since the program does not erase the positions so.) (However, when commodore ally in this position, probably regardless what the German captain knows on enemy positions.). Indeed, the strategic game of USS could serve a very good adjudicator for miniatures campaign in the South Atlantic. In this case, of course, letters representing different ships on the strategic view could represent groups of work, too. It would certainly save much work from the book let USS referee strategic movement.

ASU has some relatively minor, such problems as listed above, but it is for them in the graphical presentation. As a visiting friend who played the game, "" really envy you for your to the ' Con. "" "USS is versatile, interesting and stimulating game if it is willing to ignore spelling errors, a number of occasional visible line of the program and the above-mentioned defects.