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In article <1108993495.799153.99590@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
eddysterckx@hotmail.com says...
> Hi,
>
> Read it here :
>
> http://www.wargamer.com/reviews/dangerous_waters/
A quote:
"Although the game engine appears very solid, it has crashed on my
system two or three times during the course of play for reasons I have
yet to identify."
I'm not sure I would characterize a program that had crashed "two or
three times" as "appearing very solid." I mean, what would the software
need to do to be described as "buggy shitware?" Physically burn out his
display?
And I'm still scratching my head over what this game is supposed to be.
Harpoon4? A sub sim? A flight simulator? I'm getting the impression
that the designers weren't entirely clear about what they were building.
When I hear a reviewer observe, "In many ways, Dangerous Waters is 11
simulators in one," I start to wonder how many games have managed to
cram even *two* divergent simulators in one package without disastrous
compromises and inappropriate abstractions.
And what do we make of:
"Crew stations are well portrayed, functional and believable. Most
consist of various screen displays, dials and buttons, while others,
such as a submarine=3Fs sail or the .50 caliber machine gun on the FFG,
allow players to look around and appreciate their surroundings."
Uh, you can man a machinegun? Even more disturbing, do you *need* to
man the machinegun, or suffer the same poor performance one got from the
"autocrew" functions in SUB COMMAND?
"Although the automated crew does a reasonable job at identifying
general contacts, I found at times that they are next to useless when it
comes to classifying most contacts. In these circumstances, the player
needs to intervene and use the platform=3Fs instruments to make a final
assessment."
A huge red flag flaps cheerfully atop my mental halyards when I read
this sort of thing
--
Giftzwerg
***
"I was reading an op-ed piece by Fareed Zakaria in the Washington Post,
and he began by quoting Jon Stewart, the comedian, who said, 'We did it!
We had the election. And now we can say to Iraq, "Goodbye!"'
The words 'We did it!' brought me up short. I thought, 'What do you
mean, *we*?'
It will be just like the Cold War, I think. George W. Bush and his
allies will make progress in the Middle East, and then, with selective
amnesia, those who fought Bush & Co. tooth and nail will say, 'We,
we, we.' We liberalized Afghanistan, we liberalized Iraq, blah, blah,
blah.
If it had been up to Jon Stewart and his ilk, that election in Iraq
would never have taken place."
- Jay Nordlinger
- the stuff 
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