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Just looking at that screenshot triggers the urge to fire the game up with Dosbox. Even after all these years that game still rocks, I can't wait for Dan & Co to produce a Ubi equivalent with SH4 level graphics.
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Okay, Rear Admiral Raptor1 leads a line of 16 valiant Fletcher-class Destroyers down The Slot to intercept the Japanese Battleship Yamato
http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/1...tlelinexl9.jpg The Yamato opens fire as soon as the Destroyers are sighted and demolishes the 2 leading ships, Including Admiral Raptor1's Flagship, the Saufley http://img398.imageshack.us/img398/1...sinkingca7.jpg The American Line falls into disarray, but the DDs charge on and open fire on the Yamato http://img363.imageshack.us/img363/749/ddoa7.jpg Eventually the Yamato is hit by Torpedoes and sinks, but I couldn't take a pic because I didn't have Fraps handy and had to use Printscreen (Auu...) http://img353.imageshack.us/img353/8...eyamatoqm4.jpg Here is Page 1 of the American Losses, I accidentally clicked continue instead of Next so I couldn't SS the next pages, But I think I lost 5 Destroyers http://img363.imageshack.us/img363/6...etchersxd6.jpg I think I should've done this a Night Battle...hmm... |
If they could take that same game engine and just update the graphics to SHII or III standards I would be happy.
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I think where that game excelled was in it's interface which made it so easy to be torpedo officer one minute and admiral of the the next, an effortless transition, superb game design. Ubi should purchase the original code from Atari or the new Microprose and run with it. Hopefully East and crew will do something like this in Enigma II as well. |
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I still have all of the Microprose sims & their boxes & fantastic manuals. I keep purging my stuff (at my wife's insistance), but find it very difficult to part with them.
The originals pop up on eBay from time to time, I was shocked to see a copy of "Silent Service II" go for about £16 ($32) a few weeks ago |
I actually have it on 3-1/2" floppy but no way to put it on my pc. Where can I download it and is DosBox all I need to run it?
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There is an interesting article originally from Gamespot over at the Civilization fanatics site about Sid Meier's days at Microprose it mentions Pirates, RedStorm Rising & Silent Service amongst other classics.
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I remember a task force mode built into 1942: Pacific Air War. Was that essentially Task Force 1942?
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Since 1942: PAW is a flight sim, I don't think so...
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They had a surface ship / task force campaign mode that you could play. You had the option of flying, if you wanted to, but it mainly focused on directing your fleet(s) and aircraft to intercept the other fleet(s). I remember playing the battle of Midway and sending out my PBY and B-17 search planes to locate the Japanese fleet. AI was pretty smart.
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TF1942 concentrates only on the Solomon Islands campaign and you directly control your Task Groups and Ship Squadrons/Divisions in a battle (And you can order land-based air around in the campaign too), So it's pretty much the opposite, I guess
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that was a great game with a surprising amount of depth in the campaign mode. ah, the memories... |
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As Raptor correctly points out 1942:PAW was primarily a flight sim and allowed you only to direct your fleet on the map and man the aircraft, unlike TF1942 where you could man the ship's bridge views , gunnery torps etc. If you never played TF do yourself a favour and seek it out & try it uder DOSBOX, for my money it's still the best surface sim to date. I hope Dan & the team at Ubi take a long hard look at this classic should they ever decide to give us a surface sim. |
I'd be more than will'n to buy an updated PAW to go with my updated copy of TF1942. Both games were awsome back in the day. :up: :up:
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I love Microprose games. You could always tell a Microprose game by content.
In fact, you could blind fold me, and put an MP game in one hand and just about anyone elses game in the other and I could tell you which hand held the MP game just by the weight of the package. They always were well thought out and they never skimped on content. But my favorite MP game was Darklands. A fantasy RPG that substituded magic with religion and potions. |
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