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j-h...@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (James Hogan) writes:

>"Justin Circelli (CS)" <circ...@eng.usf.edu> writes:

>>I've read a few messages in the group about virtual reality games and 
>>have one comment to make.  Everyone thinks DOOM is great and was the 
>>first of its kind, but anyone with any real taste knows that  Ultima 
>>Underworld was the original virtual reality game.  Even though its about 
>>two years older you can still interact with it better than you can with 
>>DOOM.  Lets put it this way Underworld makes doom look like shit. So quit 
>>talking about it.

>Each games has its pros and cons.  Doom is an action game, UW is an RPG; 
>it's like (pardon the cliche) comparing apples and oranges...  the fact
>that they both happen to have a 3-D first-person engine is irrelevant. 

	I think it is most relavent, considering that some of us like
and play both genera. To my mind the interface to the 3-D, first person
perspective _is_ the issue, not the action/rpg catigorization. In this
respect, if I were to have the Looking Glass (Underworld) interface used
in Doom, Dooom would be a better game for it, which is also the underlying
point of the original poster.

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