I'd like to love it again, but it's just too frustrating to play. I'd love to see a patch that would allow you to select screen resolution and adjust cursor speeds...
Obviously I'm going to have to buy a USB controller or something, because setting it up to use the keyboard has been an absolute frustrating nightmare. Why does it seem to have half a dozen or so keyboard setups running at once? Wouldn't one be sufficient? And since it's constantly cycling through them on the setup screen, it's difficult at best to tell if you're even setting up the same one each time you try to assign a key.
Sorry if you're looking for something porny- This game's only a strong PG-13. Once you've got the accessories figured out (The subscriber pillow, piggy bank, and shopping basket are the most useful; wine box and nicotine patch are needed for girls who drink and smoke a lot; and keep some condoms around for quick cash) it's not too difficult to hit the 25,000 fan plateau each time. When you get to the end of the game, you're awarded coins to buy the girls new hair and outfits (This doesn't affect the gameplay at all- only the aesthetics, but it gives you a reason to keep playing) Each girl has two attributes, and by hiring girls with as many matching attributes as possible, you can more efficiently exploit your fan base. There is also something called "Rock Hard Mode" which appears only to make things cost more. Not a masterpiece, but amusing and plays in about an hour.
If you loved Master of Orion 2, but hated Master of Orion 3, give this game a try. It plays almost the same MOO2, but with slicker graphics and some improved game mechanics. They made it just different enough to avoid any copyright bother (No Orion for the other races to beat you to, and no pesky Antarans showing up and smashing your most valuable planet just as it gets productive) This is probably the game most people were hoping for when they heard MOO3 was out.
I had a CD copy of this back in the day, & I'm stoked to be able to play it again in a post-DOS world. There are a lot of good DOS games that don't transition well into DOS emulators: This is not one of them. If you're an old fart who spent the 70s & 80s playing Avalon Hill box games like Panzer Blitz and Afrika Korps, this one's for you.
Plays very similar to Temple of Elemental Evil, but instead of turn-based combat, it's pauseable real-time. As of this writing I haven't gotten to the end yet, but I haven't found any gameplay bugs yet- Hours and hours of gameplay in a large & well-designed environment.
It take 3 hours to play, and there's no provision to save a gave in progress- thus I never play it, even though it's an otherwise good game. I'd probably play it a lot if I could do it 20 minutes to an hour at a time
I've wanted to try this one ever since seeing it on the shelves back in the day. Once you've become competent with the system the gameplay doesn't disappoint- But the technical issues are a disaster. I've given up trying to play this thing, because it's fond of crashing whenever I have to retreat from a battle. Nothing like playing a game for an hour or two and then suddenly losing it all when the program unexpectedly stops working. This problem is alleviated somewhat when you figure out the other technical glitch; I was wondering why it never starts the first time I try to launch it from the shortcut. In fact, the program that does launch is called REBEL.EXE, and it looks for a web connection. If you don't maintain an always-on connection, it does nothing. On the second try the program always launches, but it's more prone to crash with REBEL,EXE running in the background. Also, REBEL.EXE doesn't shut down when the program shuts down, so the next time you establish a web connection it launches the program again. The only way to close REBEL.EXE and not go through all this is in the Process tab of the Windows Task Manager. I hope these things can be fixed, because I really would have liked to give this game a good review Gameplay 5 stars Reliability -4
So the adventure is just OK, and the boss levels are mostly anticlimactic, but it's a means to an end as finishing levels with a high enough score unlocks deathmatch levels and one-off missions, which are where the real fun is.
