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Article #213Re: Warcraft 2 VS. Command & Conquer
From: Mark Hanson
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 1996 00:00
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 1996 00:00
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David Carriere <car...@magmacom.com> writes: > Command & Conquer is the unofficial sequel to Dune 2, > and Warcraft borrows its entire interface from the Dune 2 > engine, so they are quite similar, although C&C is only in > 320*200 VGA. The troop selection is mostly modern and > futuristic conventional military machinery like Hum Vee's and > M1 Tanks, bazooka troops with TOW missles and some other desert > Storm type stuff. The only edge I'd give Warcraft is the video > resolution. I enjoy them both and would hesitate to say one is > better than the other. The AI is about the same.. And you don't > get a mission editor in C&C. > I think Warcraft II edges out C&C because of the AI. In the multi player games the AI in WCII will build bases and expand them. It is much more challanging than C&C. I've also noticed that WCII is slightly more stable in modem play. Just my 2 cents (hoping Westwood will read this and make a more challenging AI:) Mark Hanson
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From: Mark Hanson <mar...@winternet.com> Subject: Re: Warcraft 2 VS. Command & Conquer Date: 1996/01/02 Message-ID: <4caoqo$oav@blackice.winternet.com> X-Deja-AN: 133566213 organization: StarNet Communications, Inc newsgroups: alt.games.warcraft,alt.games.command-n-conq MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit