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Summary: Great, simple fun
Review: By today's standards, these games might be less-than-stellar, but do not lack playability. In college, I spent a great deal of time playing these due to hopeless addiction when I probably should have been studying.Conquest of the New World is your standard empire builder (build settlements, upgrade technologies, raise armies, fight hostiles and eventually declare independence from your mother country after she taxes the hell out of you, then proceed on to crush your fellow colonial powers). A chess board-like structured combat scenario (playing as the English reveals great bagpipe combat tunes) offers little in the way of combat tactics; if your forces are greater in number and better trained, you'll most likely win. It was a treat to have a good deal of historical trivia meted out while the AI completes its turns. Again, by modern gaming standards, it pales in comparison, but at the time it was quite entertaining; not bad for a jewel-case purchase.
Rating:
Summary: Great, simple fun
Review: By today's standards, these games might be less-than-stellar, but do not lack playability. In college, I spent a great deal of time playing these due to hopeless addiction when I probably should have been studying. Conquest of the New World is your standard empire builder (build settlements, upgrade technologies, raise armies, fight hostiles and eventually declare independence from your mother country after she taxes the hell out of you, then proceed on to crush your fellow colonial powers). A chess board-like structured combat scenario (playing as the English reveals great bagpipe combat tunes) offers little in the way of combat tactics; if your forces are greater in number and better trained, you'll most likely win. It was a treat to have a good deal of historical trivia meted out while the AI completes its turns. Again, by modern gaming standards, it pales in comparison, but at the time it was quite entertaining; not bad for a jewel-case purchase.
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Summary: 386 Compatible Only
Review: I picked this up [inexpensively] and encountered the common "You get what you pay for." Later that day, I drove it back. This software doesn't run on Win XP, or 98. Only thing I can guess by the date of the product, it goes back to the 386 and maybe 486 non-math co-proccessor days. Too bad because it is suppose to have about 30min. of castle footage from some BBC special. But, if the footage is monochrome or VGA quality, you'd be better off finding the video. Interplay provides little support more than what is commonly known about these MS-DOS products already circulated (PIF, driver issues, and other compatibility notes). This is typical of some of the larger companies though. It's very sad that the product has almost slipped beyond 'the bin' to 'abandonedware'. But if you have a 286 you might love the graphics because everyone I talked to can't see them.
Rating:
Summary: 386 Compatible Only
Review: I picked this up [inexpensively] and encountered the common "You get what you pay for." Later that day, I drove it back. This software doesn't run on Win XP, or 98. Only thing I can guess by the date of the product, it goes back to the 386 and maybe 486 non-math co-proccessor days. Too bad because it is suppose to have about 30min. of castle footage from some BBC special. But, if the footage is monochrome or VGA quality, you'd be better off finding the video. Interplay provides little support more than what is commonly known about these MS-DOS products already circulated (PIF, driver issues, and other compatibility notes). This is typical of some of the larger companies though. It's very sad that the product has almost slipped beyond 'the bin' to 'abandonedware'. But if you have a 286 you might love the graphics because everyone I talked to can't see them.
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