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The previous poster really liked this game (obvious from 
the subject), but the demo left me wanting more.

The poster was right in every respect. This is the best 2D 
scroller on the market. The character had a very large 
number of poses, making his (its?) motions very fluid and 
lifelike, especially when panning the weapon around in a 
circle, WOW! I really did like that.

Yet . . . it is just another 2D scroller, and I expected 
more. More of what? I can't say, but it just didn't thrill 
me. I really liked this game, but won't buy it, and won't 
recommend it. It doesn't offer anything really new or 
innovative (IMHO).

I really liked breakthrough hits like:

Dune2 -- realtime strategy combat that made the minute-hand 
on your clock spin like a weed-eater cord, with extra 
attention paid to the details (sounds, animations, 
interface)

Xwing -- fantastic flight engine coupled with a blockbuster 
movie world, I almost got divorced over this one.

Mechwarrior 2 -- great graphics (if you have the processor 
for it) and (again) great interface.

Abuse doesn't fit here. It is good, fun, etc., but seems 
more applicable to a SNES or SEGA as far as platforms go. 
If you like the 2D-scroller type games (Prince of Persia, 
Blackthorne, etc.,) GO FOR IT. But if you just like games 
in general, I advise to wait. This game doesn't offer 
enough to justify the cash.


For what it's worth,

Mike

In article <42tk72$2...@ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> Mike Herauf <m.he...@ix.netcom.com> writes:


   Yet . . . it is just another 2D scroller, and I expected 
   more. More of what? I can't say, but it just didn't thrill 
   me. I really liked this game, but won't buy it, and won't 
   recommend it. It doesn't offer anything really new or 
   innovative (IMHO).

Ummm, ok, how bout deathmatch mode?  Not new or inovative in of itself
but has never been done before in a 2d scroller, for any market, the
networkabiltiy of the pc offers this, cause you can have characters be
at diff places af the map at the same time, arcade home system could
play teams but had to stay on same playfield.

Also a built in, easy ( comparitively) to use  level editor.... Im allready working on
a level....

Granted dont get this if you dont like platformers at all, but to call
MW2 inovative I dont quite see...personally MW2 leaves me cold do to
the fact that its not freform like MW1 that was the big appeal, I had
a reason to aim for the legs, it increased salvage rates, that was
important, doesnt seem to be any real reason to aim for legs other
than they may blow easier than other locals.....  And whats with the
not affecting storyline, not only linear missions, but it doesnt
matter what you do?

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Never right...
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In <ROUGAN.95S...@bigwpi.WPI.EDU> rou...@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Forge
Forsaken) writes: 
>

>Ummm, ok, how bout deathmatch mode?  Not new or inovative in of itself
>but has never been done before in a 2d scroller, for any market, the
>networkabiltiy of the pc offers this, cause you can have characters be
>at diff places af the map at the same time, arcade home system could
>play teams but had to stay on same playfield.


    Deathmatch mode?? I got abuse33.zip from ftp.cdrom.com and it had
nothing about deathmatch in the game!! Do you have a different version.
If so, where do I get it??

kdho...@ix.netcom.com (Katherine Hobson ) writes:
>    Deathmatch mode?? I got abuse33.zip from ftp.cdrom.com and it had
>nothing about deathmatch in the game!! Do you have a different version.
>If so, where do I get it??

There is none.. yet.  Multiplayer capability is one of the main features
to be added to the engine.  The code was left out because there was not enough
time to finish and test the code before release.  The TCP/IP code is done
I believe but the author (Jonathan Clark) told me that the IPX code is being
rewritten from scratch because it is too slow at the moment.  The network
patch will support IPX, TCP/IP (Beam & Whiteside) and modem play.

Since it sounds like you haven't read the original advertisement for the
game (which you can see by fingering he...@crack.com) I'll summarize the
features.

1) Client/Server framework
2) Supports as many players as the server can handle.  Obviously this is
   a theoretical limit since the engine itself will _not_ utilize more than
   5 megabytes of memory but it should be able to support more than eight
   players depending on the speed of the server. 
3) Players can come and go as they like without disrupting the game
4) Supports IPX, Beam & Whiteside TCP/IP and modem play
5) Client logs on to server and is sent any source code, graphics and
   sounds which it doesn't have after which the client enters the game. 

What this means is simple... any game you design with the Abuse game engine
-- and I mean the engine, not the just the Abuse level editor -- has the
potential to be a multi-platform (DOS, SGI, Linux, Mac) multiplayer networked
game.  Not too shabby eh?

Not only this but the use of external code to process all of the objects in
the game means that you will see countless varieties of multiplayer Abuse.
The author of Abuse intends to make public at least one or two team-sport
variants of multiplayer abuse.

And as Forrest Gump puts it so well, thats all I have to say about that.

-Mike Perry
author of the Abuse FAQ v1.0.1
operator on #abuse



-- 
//     "C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot.  C++ makes it
//      harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg."
//             
//                                       -- Bjarne Stroustrup on C++ 

In <431c92$2...@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> mj-p...@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Perry
Michael James) writes: 


>
>There is none.. yet.  Multiplayer capability is one of the main
features
>to be added to the engine.  The code was left out because there was
not enough
>time to finish and test the code before release.  The TCP/IP code is
done
>I believe but the author (Jonathan Clark) told me that the IPX code is
being
>rewritten from scratch because it is too slow at the moment.  The
network
>patch will support IPX, TCP/IP (Beam & Whiteside) and modem play.
>

    Will net/modem play be available in an updated shareware version?
I'd love to play it with my friends, but I don't think they'd be
willing to shell out $45 each for the game.

kdho...@ix.netcom.com (Katherine Hobson ) writes:

>    Will net/modem play be available in an updated shareware version?
>I'd love to play it with my friends, but I don't think they'd be
>willing to shell out $45 each for the game.

The network patch _will_ work with the shareware version.

-MP

-- 
//     "C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot.  C++ makes it
//      harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg."
//             
//                                       -- Bjarne Stroustrup on C++ 

In <432v7u$1...@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> mj-p...@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Perry
Michael James) writes: 
>
>kdho...@ix.netcom.com (Katherine Hobson ) writes:
>
>>    Will net/modem play be available in an updated shareware version?
>>I'd love to play it with my friends, but I don't think they'd be
>>willing to shell out $45 each for the game.
>
>The network patch _will_ work with the shareware version.
>
>-MP


    So where do I get the network/modem patch??