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Pacific Strike Review – Edge Magazine

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I notice I’ve been getting a load of hits from simhq in the last day or two so I thought I’d put up a review of Pacific Strike taken from the July 1994 Edge magazine.

I’ve only really suffered my way through most of the sims on here, as they just aren’t my type of game but I did enjoy Pacific Strike. It appeared to concentrate on fun rather than realism but most of all the slower flight speed and lack of long range missiles made it far more of a dogfighting game than Strike Commander. The Edge reviewer more or less shares my views and liked it enough to give it a score of 8/10.

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Super Wing Commander Review – Edge Magazine

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It’s 21 years today since the first Wing Commander game. I couldn’t find a Wing Commander review at short notice so instead here is the review of the 3DO remake, Super Wing Commander, from Edge magazine in July 1994. I prefer the original Wing Commander myself but this gets a great review here nonetheless.

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Ultima 4 Review – Games Machine Magazine

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This is a review of Ultima 4 on the Amiga from Games Machine magazine in Decemeber 1988. It’s very brief and spends as much time on the back story as anything else. The game gets a high score of 86% but is slightly criticised for being too faithful to the original and not really taking advantage of the Amiga hardware.

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Knights Of Legend Review – Games Machine Magazine

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It’s a final couple of scans from Games Machine magazine today. The first is a review for Knights Of Legend on C64 from February 1990.

Anyone who read the early stages of this blog will know what I feel about Knights Of Legend. I did a review on Mobygames for which my one line summary was “Gaming Hell”. It’s a game that could have been designed to frustrate someone trying to blog their way through dozens of titles by stalling them for a year or two and it’s the only game that I had to resort to cheating (savestates not included).

The magazine review is more positive to say the least and it’s awarded the staggering score of 98%. It does warn that you will have to say goodbye to your social life but as far as I’m concerned you couldn’t hold down a job either and have the time needed to play this game. There was still plenty to like about it though if you are prepared to put the time in and have the patience required. Knights Of Legend would probably be my choice for a desert island game for all the reasons that I disliked it.

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This is apparently my 500th post on here. 500 posts and I still haven’t played Lazarus or sorted out the site navigation/appearance for that matter. The latter is unlikely to happen any time soon but I don’t think I’ll make it to the end of the year without playing Lazarus.

I’ve added 3 new downloads in the Origin books section. I wasn’t happy with some of the cluebook scans on replacementdocs especially Martian Dreams which was horribly overcompressed during editing. I’ve redone that, Savage Empire and Underworld 2.