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Date: 10-11-95 Time: 05:52p Number: 13
From: Frode Lunde@WAR Refer: 0
To: ALL Board ID: ROLVSOY Reply:
Subject: Nye spill 67: F-Factor/Spi Status: Public
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Games coming to a PC Screen near you in '95.
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Air Power - Autumn
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A new game from Overlord and Dawn Patrol programmers
Rowan Software. This new flight sim will cause quite
a stir with it's plot.
Aliens - October
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Mindscape have put Cryo onto the job of making a Doom
beater from the Aliens licence.
Chaos Control - Spring
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Infogrames have been promising CC for around a year now
but we should hopefully see this Shoot-Em-Up out around
February / March time. The game is a co-production between
Philips & Infogrames which will mean the game will come out
on CD-i before CD-ROM. Many people are expecting this to be
another Microcosm / Novastorm sad case but from early demos
it looks to be quite impressive.
Name To Be Annouced - Autumn
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DID are working on a Helicopter game again for Ocean with
the game coming out on CD only rather than CD / Disk as DID
have been doing with the last couple of games (Inferno &
TFX).
Command & Conquer - Spring
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Westwood Studios are to release an Action Strategy game
similar to the massive hit Dune 2. The game will use an
improved game engine & will include all the usual CD
trimmings such as Rendered intro & cut-screens. As usual
Virgin will be releasing the game.
Creation - Summer
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All that's know about this game so far is that it uses the
Magic Carpet engine and is based underwater. Expect the
game out on Electronic Arts later this year.
Dark Seed 2 - Autumn / Winter
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The follow-up to the Giger inspired Dark Seed will be
similar to the original, only bigger and coming out on
CD only.
Dungeon Keeper - Winter 95 / Spring 96
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Bullfrog have produced classics in many genres and are
looking to take Ultima Underworld's crown for RPG.
Peter Molyneux has hinted that the game will include
a much improved engine from Magic Carpet.
FX Fighter - Spring
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New software house GTE have signed up Argonaut's (Starwing
& Creature Shock) beat-em-up. The game will use there
BRender video chipset to knock Sega's Virtua Fighter into
submission. Early screenshots have look very similar to
Sega's new Virtua Fighter 2 & Nintendo's Killer Instinct.
Frontier : First Encounters - Spring
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After 8 years waiting for a sequal to David Braben's Elite
it has taken less than 2 years to produce the next
installment. The new game will include graphics similar
to Frontier but more smooth. The game will be CD only
this time giving FMV throughout. It will be interesting
to see how the magazines see the game. After many killing
Frontier & others saying it was a classic. Let's wait and
see !!!
Full Throttle - Spring
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It seems to have taken LucasArts ages to release their new
adventure game. After the classic Day Of The Tentacle &
Sam & Max people will expect much. It's a CD only product
(what isn't these days ?). The game is less cute than the
last two games.
Lands Of Lore 2 - Summer
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Westwood Studios are beavering away at the follow-up to the
hugely successful Lands Of Lore. The creators of Eye Of The
Beholder 1 & 2 sure know a lot about RPG's and using a game
engine similar to Dragonlore this could be their best game
yet. As with all recent Westwood games this game will be
distributed by Virgin.
Mortal Kombat 2 - Early Spring
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Follow up to the mighty Mortal Kombat, MK2 is similar to the
original with new moves & characters. The console game sold
in bucket loads so hopefully Probe will do a job at
converting it to the PC. The first game did well on the PC
but the sequal is up against classics like One Must Fall &
the soon to be released Super Street Fighter 2. One last
point, like Streetfigter which is being made into a film
starring Jean-Claude Van Damme & Kylie Minogue, Mortal
Kombat is also being made into a film. This time starring
Highlander star Christopher Lambert. Whilst on the subject
of the Streetfigher 2 film, us Brits could end up never
seeing the film. After 2 months of talks there have been
no takers for the film. The big guns have complained that
the film is to expensive.
Quake - Winter
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ID Software have become a household name for all those PC
owners out there. After releasing 2 of the greatest ever
Shareware games (Wolfenstein & Doom) and 2 not so hot
sequals (Spear Of Destiny & Doom 2) ID are tipping Quake
to be the next big thing. ID's Jay Wilbur has said that
'the game will be as big a step as Doom was to Wolfenstein'
Like there other games the game will be released as share-
ware.
Sensible Golf & Sensible World Of Soccer - Spring
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Sensible have been busy with a sequal and new game. S Golf
is different to all recent golf games by using a different
perspective. Yes Sensi Golf will use the top-down view
seen in Sensi Soccer & Cannon Fodder. As for Sensi WOS this
will be similar to the prequal with new management options.
Sim Tower - Spring
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Get this a SIM game not written by Maxi !!! The game is
being written by Japan's Handbook programming team but will
be released by Maxis. It is not known if Maxis have had
much input into the game but we'll just have to wait.
But this isn't the only SIM game being released by Maxis
but not being programmed by them. Sim Rainforest is being
written by Intelligent Games and should be released around
the same time as Sim Tower.
The 11th Hour - God Knows When Probably By The Year 2000
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Trilobyte have taken an age to release the sequal to 7th
Guest. Firstly the game was refused a classification
so had to be toned down to get an 18 certificate and then
after Access released Under A Killing Moon Trilobyte went
back to the drawing board. Virgin will release the game
if it ever does get finished.
Theme Hospital - Summer
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Bullfrog are giving the Theme Park make over to running
a hosital. What else can I say ? Simply brilliant.
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■ 1.88 ■ Terminate Bo's gravy train: look out for "Project CAIN"!
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