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In article <30n7dk$q...@mozz.unh.edu>, The Rink <s...@kepler.unh.edu> wrote:
>>> Doom is an okay game and was fun, but was just another shoot 'em up. UFO is
>>> F@#ckin awesome and requires thinking.
>>
>>Uh, to my knowledge, there isn't any other shoot 'em up like Doom. The
>>next bext thing  is perhaps Virtua  Fighter, but they haven't  made an
>>Intel port yet :-)
>>
>>"Just another  shoot' em  up" is the   understatement of the  century,
>>don't you think?
>
>Not really.  Doom is "just another shoot em up" with great graphics.
>Beyond the graphics, there is not much of a game.  It has modem support
>which is cool, but this could be added with virtually any shoot em up
>game and you'd get similar results minus the graphics.  Personally, I
>look for more in a game than graphic displays.  Raptor kicks Doom's butt
>on both gameplay _and_ graphics; it just doesn't have the modem support --
	 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>and Raptor isn't much for gameplay either, though I enjoy it a lot.
     ^^^^^^
    
RAPTOR?  RAPTOR?????  Come on!  You couldn't come up with a better
game than Raptor?  There is no spaceship AI, and the game consists of
holding down the fire button and moving around.  Yeah, real 
sophisticated. 

That comment made me laugh.

The monsters in DOOM are quite intelligent, more intelligent than
Wolfenstein or Blake Stone anyway.

Graphic-wise, those can be done better on an Amiga or at the arcades.
The explosions were nice, but that's about it.

I thought the graphics were the best I've seen in a first person view
game (look at the Ultima Underworlds, Blake Stone, Wolf 3D, etc.).  Of
course, system shock looks to overtake DOOM and others as well.  We'll
see.

Steven