Epinions Recent Reviews for digant

armored fist

Wed, 19 Jan 2000 02:02:09 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author digant - In fairness, Armored Fist 3 is a decent war game and a well-conceived and detailed battle simulation. And while it may appear daunting to the casual gamer or even to avid gamers who otherwise shy away from sims, it is fairly user-friendly thanks to a...

Battleground 5 - Antietam: Antietam!

Tue, 18 Jan 2000 22:14:19 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author digant - Of all the real-time strategy and historical war games ever made, none are more unique and engrossing than Sid Meier's Gettysburg!. The marriage of historical realism and real-time play challenged players to think like a real Civil War general...

Absolute Power

Tue, 18 Jan 2000 13:46:06 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author digant -

It’s nearly impossible to summarize Clint Eastwood’s fine new thriller without destroying its many surprises. Adapting David Baldacci’s popular novel, screenwriter William Goldman (Misery, All the President’s Men) conceals a crucial element...

Asherons Call

Tue, 18 Jan 2000 12:42:03 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author digant - Asheron's Call is a truly deep and wonderful game that I feel may continue to grow and possibly even become a true classic one day. The mysterious and dangerous land of Dereth is a dynamic environment fraught with real, earth-changing events. Cataclysms...

Test Drive 6- The review

Tue, 18 Jan 2000 12:37:22 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author digant - I'm old enough to remember the original Test Drive, released over ten years ago (now I feel old). The idea was simple enough: license a bunch of high-performance sports cars and simulate them on a machine that had 48K of memory and 16 colors. The results...

Cyber Mercs

Tue, 18 Jan 2000 11:52:36 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author digant - I imagine that RPG game developers are a frustrated bunch right now. Its been about two years since Blizzard's masterpiece Diablo hit the gaming scene, and still no one has been able to touch it. How is one supposed to stay a creative genius when such a...

Nocturne...

Mon, 17 Jan 2000 23:47:19 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author digant - Creating effective horror is a tricky thing. What makes one person cower in terror gives another the giggles. In fact, humor and terror are closely tied emotions, which may explain our natural reaction to Judge Judy. That said, horror game developers are...

Worms Armageddon

Mon, 17 Jan 2000 23:44:49 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author digant -

On the slope of a windswept hill, a cute, big-eyed, cartoonish worm moves, making a rhythmic squeaka-squeaka-squeaka sound as he slinks along. White puffy clouds scud along in the brisk westerly wind, while music and starry confetti fill the...

Bleem!: Bleem Blaam Bloom !!

Mon, 17 Jan 2000 12:57:36 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author digant - With the increasing popularity of electronic entertainment, games for the console systems continue to reach a larger market than PC games. While many titles are released for console systems and the PC, the majority of games are console exclusive. This is...

Get Medieval

Mon, 17 Jan 2000 12:52:26 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author digant - A quick-moving archer, a muscle-bound warrior, a tough Valkyrie, and a skillful sorceress enter the first level of a dark, foreboding dungeon. As you look down upon this scene, you and three of your friends are in control of their every move. Gold and...

Grim Fandango: Grim Fandango

Mon, 17 Jan 2000 12:48:07 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author digant - After a series of successful adventure titles like Full Throttle and Day of the Tentacle, Tim Schafer has lead LucasArts into the third dimension with Grim Fandango. And, man, what a difference another dimension makes.

LucasArts has always...

Ultima Online: For all you RPG-fans out there

Mon, 17 Jan 2000 12:41:09 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author digant -

A deep distant tremor is felt throughout the land. Dungeon crawlers and townsfolk alike pause for a second to ponder this strange and unusual occurrence. An earthquake? Bah! Not in Britannia. Right?

Slowly Lord British, ruler of...

TrickStyle

Mon, 17 Jan 2000 12:35:21 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author digant - If you like the stunt racer games that have become popular, and you're up for a challenge, then Trickstyle may just be what you're looking for. If you're new to the genre, or you're looking for something with lots of new ideas, then you should probably...

Falcon 4.0: Falcon 4.0

Mon, 17 Jan 2000 12:16:36 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author digant -

Nearly five years in development, the Falcon 4.0 that finally hit shelves in December is a bit of a dichotomy. At times, it's arguably the most detailed, ambitious, and realistic depiction of modern air war ever attempted. It's a sim that's...

F-22 Lightning 3

Mon, 17 Jan 2000 12:14:39 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author digant -

Since the early days of NovaLogic - you know, back when voxels were the size of your fist and hours were wasted trying to squeeze out some extra lower memory to run Comanche - the company has steadily released simulations, typically with a...

European Air War

Mon, 17 Jan 2000 12:11:42 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author digant -

European Air War doesn't push the state of the art - it just barely matches it in many areas - but it excels at good, old-fashioned gameplay. While other World War II flight sims can claim technical superiority over various aspects of...

A-10 Cuba

Mon, 17 Jan 2000 12:08:25 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author digant - It's one thing to create an ultra-realistic flight simulation, but it's quite another to design it so that novice to intermediate pilots won't feel intimidated. And while it's great for a sim to be as realistic as possible - it would be slammed by every...

Creatures for Windows: Bed Lam

Mon, 17 Jan 2000 12:05:08 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author digant -

Bedlam isn't a great or brilliant game: it won't blind you with its originality or searing gameplay. But it's a decent enough game with a fair number of fun hours in it, and that in itself can be rare enough these days.

Bedlam is a...

King's Quest: The Mask of Eternity

Mon, 17 Jan 2000 12:00:44 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author digant -

King's Quest: Mask of Eternity, the latest in the venerable series from Sierra On-Line, is a noble effort, an adventure inside an RPG wrapped in an action game. From every angle, this game is a vast, sprawling experiment that, while falling short...

The Force is strong with Racer

Sun, 16 Jan 2000 22:08:13 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author digant - The Force is strong with Racer, which succeeds as both a racing game and a Star Wars game. There really isn't a lot of competition for Star Wars: Episode I: Racer on either front. The driving genre hasn't had a lot of hits in the past few months, and the...

Baldur's gate..the good and the bad

Sun, 16 Jan 2000 21:56:37 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author digant -

Very few computer games based upon Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, the most influential role-playing game system of them all, have been released over the past several years, and those that did make it to retail shelves have been...

EverQuest for Windows: EverQuest- a good one so far :)

Sun, 16 Jan 2000 21:40:02 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author digant -

While its intent - to unite thousands of players simultaneously within a huge game world - is similar to other online role-playing games, EverQuest delivers on its promises much more assertively than the competition, though not always gracefully...