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j-h...@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (James Hogan) writes:
>gme...@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au (GM Enierga) writes:
>>	That does not answer my question.  It may all come on CD-ROM, but
>>excluding odds, how much of that WILL be good - ie worth buying a CD-ROM for?
>>(just as the WC's made the purchase of a sound card essential... or is that a
>>faster machine?  I forget).

>Have you seen the WC3 demo yet?  IMHO, _this_ is what CD-ROM is made 
>for.  :)  And once you see the cinematics, I think you'll agree that it's 
>worth buying a CD-ROM for.

	No, but then again I do not have a CD-ROM, nor has that particular issue
been released here yet.  I do have a friend who has a CD-ROM, so if he gets it
I will be able to see for myself.  But there was someone who posted his
findings of the demo on the net, and I believe you even replied to that post too
- agreeing with some of his negative comments.
	Having said all that, I should also tell you that I did promise myself
when news of WC3 were leaked out that I _WOULD_ buy a CDROM if the game turns
out to be what it is touted to be.  Yes, the WHOLE game, not just the
cinematics... otherwise I will just wait for when the movie comes out. :-)


>>	And didn't Privateer have "A Chris Roberts game" in its credits?

>Did it really?  It's been a while.  :)
>I believe he was the producer, while the designer was Joel Manners (?).  
>At any rate, I got the impression that he wasn't as invovled in the 
>design process as he was in the rest of the WC games.  (I could be wrong.)

	Well, since you are the official FAQ writer (thanks by the way) you
should know more about this than I do.
	But if what you said is true - that he wasn't as involved - then it
makes a whole lot of sense that the game did not turn out to be what it should
have been.  Chris Roberts is "just off" the level occupied by Mr. Meier... and
it is things like this which have kept him "just off", unfortunately.  After
seeing what he came up with when he did Times of lore, Space Rogue, and WC
series SO FAR, one knew that he was/is destined for cyberspace greatness. :-)


>>>Most people think Armada has an excellent multiplayer mode, FWIW.
>>	And that's all.  Should have been released as some kind of add-on
>>rather than separately, IMO.

>I wish they would have recognized the AI as a problem and fixed it... 
>then it really could have been a much better game.
>  |      James P. Hogan      | Check out the REVISED WC3 FAQ, version 1.10! |

	Well the strategy could have been improved too.  Simply doing basic
planet-hopping, making better ships and looking for the enemy carrier is not
THAT big of a deal.

							- Falcon