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Ill be downloading my copy in about a week :0


On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 21:16:10 GMT, "DocScorpio"
<docscorpio@strupra-spammeros.com> wrote:

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>"Memnoch" <memnoch@nospampleaseimbritish.ntlworld.com> wrote in message 
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>> I'll probably pop out at lunchtime and snag a copy.  The quite stunning
>> visuals are certainly the initial draw but I hope they have added more 
>> things
>> to do in the game this time around. The ship designs are nice, with one or 
>> two
>> reminding me of the Earth cruisers from Babylon 5. I am also glad they 
>> appear
>> to have dropped the very silly looking ball weapons from the first two,
>> replacing them with beams instead. Hopefully there will be some cutting 
>> beam
>> weapons in there as well for some of the larger capital ships. The only 
>> two
>> things I have read about it so far that I don't like is that there are no
>> cockpit views and the UK release, by Deep Silver I think, uses Starforce.
>> Missing cockpit views seems like a small thing to some people I guess but 
>> for
>> me it just seemed more "realistic" to be peering through a canopy, seeing 
>> the
>> struts holding the cockpit in place. The Starforce thing again may not 
>> bother
>> some people but I would rather it not be there at all but there you go. It
>> seems like the only alternative would be to wait for the 5th November and 
>> get
>> the US version imported. Rumours are that this won't use it but no details 
>> on
>> what it DOES use. Either way at worst it will be an interesting diversion 
>> for
>> a few weeks, and lets be honest there isn't exactly a lot else out there 
>> at
>> the moment, but maybe, just maybe it could be what we have all been 
>> waiting
>> for, at least until the next rewrite of BC gets released! ;-)
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>I'm taking a pass till it's in U.S. retail outlets....then I'll wait for the 
>price to drop before I consider it.  I don't think I can bite on this 
>franchise again, unless I read lots of great reviews (on usenet...not on 
>sites).
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>Starforce is not great, but if you want to play some very good games (i.e., 
>SH3 and, especially, Space Rangers 2....which is my personal GOTY), you've 
>got to put up with it.  Games coming out of eastern Europe seem to favor 
>Starforce (which is, after all, Russian developed) and that's where the 
>innovative games seem to be coming from these days.....not the tired, 
>endlessly rehashed crap produced by western developers.  But, hey, that's 
>just my opinion. :)
>
>Also, unless I'm mistaken, the English version of Parkan II is due out for 
>the holidays.....and this is definitely a "must have."  The Russian 
>version's been out since c. June, but I'm not seeing much about the English 
>version. 
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