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  STAR CONTROL ]I[

   • g*****o@k****.****t.net
     20/09/1996 00:00:000 UTC

     I heard that the release of Star Control 3 should be at the end of

     October. It was supposed to have been on store shelves on March 1st. I

     heard that game is going to have incredible photographic animation and

     Alien interaction. From what I read, it's going to be a game where you

     have to build colonies on other planets.

     I'm hoping it's not going to be a vamped up version of Masters of Orion

     with super graphics. I really did enjoy the first two games. Star
     Control

     1 was just a "shoot-em-up" arcade game. Star Control 2 took the same

     arcade style battle action and placed it within an incredible adventure

     game. You have to explore the universe for natural resoures, look for

     allies, avoid hostile aliens and find a way to free the planet Earth
     from

     enslavement.

     --Glen

       • g*****o@k****.****t.net
         24/09/1996 00:00:000 UTC

         Glen (g*****o@k****.****t.net) wrote:

         : I heard that the release of Star Control 3 should be at the end of

         : October. It was supposed to have been on store shelves on March
         1st. I

         Well I'm really surprised, I just received a call from Babbages in
         the

         Mall and they informed me that Star Control 3 has come out and they
         have

         a copy on reserve for me. Also OS/2 Merlin came out this week. Happy
         Week!

         --Glen

            • g*****o@k****.****t.net
              25/09/1996 00:00:000 UTC

              : Well I'm really surprised, I just received a call from
              Babbages in the

              : Mall and they informed me that Star Control 3 has come out
              and they have

              : a copy on reserve for me. Also OS/2 Merlin came out this
              week. Happy Week!

              Simply...incredible! The graphics and voice synth of the aliens
              are

              stunning. It looks like the game developers switched over from
              regular

              computer 2D animation and used 3d animated puppetery. It's real
              creepy

              seeing this alien sitting in front of you on a 17" monitor that
              scratches

              itself or has a nervous twitch every so often.

              This game when fully installed on a Hard Drive take 60 megs. Of
              course

              during the install, it gives you a choice on how much space you
              can

              allocate to the game. You can install 10, 20, 40, 55 or 60
              megs. The box

              says that it needs a minimum of a 486 DX2-66 with 8megs of
              memory. Well I

              have a DX4-100 with 8 megs and the fight scenes don't work very
              well.

              Moving objects sometimes appear as white squares. The animated
              movie

              clips seem to be choppy under 8megs. Well I'll see what happens
              when I

              swap in 16 megs in my computer. That will raise is to 20megs.

              --Glen

              "Fighting evil, fighting crime....getting there in a nick of
              time. HERE I

              COME TO SAVE THE DAY!" -MM