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Article #54401Re: EPIC - review, anybody ?
From: tr9... Christopher Owen
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1993 20:49
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1993 20:49
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In article <1993Jun1.1...@urz.unibas.ch> ca...@urz.unibas.ch writes: >Hi everyone ! > >I have the chance of buying some original pc games from a net-friend, and among >other games, there's one called EPIC. > >Is this thing any good ? I have just seen some reviews in mags, but they >didn't seem quite good. Awesome grafx though...anybody played this space >game ? How can you control it ? (keyboard, mouse, joystick). Is it worth >the price of 45 $ (approx. 30 Swiss Francs) ? What is the difficulty level ? >Demanding or just too easy ? Motivation to play it through ? Atmosphere ? If you mean Epic by Ocean, DON'T BUY IT! It is one of the all time great disappointments, having supposedly taken 3 years to write and still ending up as a rather large pile of ordure! It can be described as a poor man's Wing Commander / X-Wing and plotwise is a blatant ripoff of Battlestar Galactica. The graphics are nice, yes, but the game is too damn easy - I completed it within 3 hours of getting it. Avoid! Chris Owen
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!utnut!torn!nott!bnrgate!bnr.co.uk!uknet!comlab.ox.ac.uk!tr95006 From: tr9...@black.ox.ac.uk (Christopher Owen) Subject: Re: EPIC - review, anybody ? Message-ID: <1993Jun2.204934.6708@black.ox.ac.uk> Originator: tr95006@black Organization: Oxford University Computing Service, 13 Banbury Rd, Oxford, U References: <1993Jun1.155546.42946@urz.unibas.ch> Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 20:49:34 GMT Lines: 25 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit