OT-Some New games

Val · #1 October 24th, 2002, 03:40 AM

Kinda OT for OT, but does anyone remember an old Amiga game that was based on a turn based/top down view BattleTech game? Can't remember the name, but it was a one man show and the best BattleTech game simulation I had seen, though not quite the thrill of the 3D Mechwarrior series.

Phoenix-D · #2 October 24th, 2002, 06:02 AM

"Kinda OT for OT, but does anyone remember an old Amiga game that was based on a turn based/top down view BattleTech game?"

Mechforce?

On the same idea: Megamek. A BT port to the computer- and unlike all the other BT ports out there, this one actually got to the playable stage! BT, not Dark Age. Thankfully.
http://www.megamek.com/

Also Titans of Steel. Said it was based on the game you mentioned above..it's essentially a clone of BT with some different elements. It is also NOT turnbased, but not real time either.

You give your orders, which take a certain amount of time. When a unit finishes an order, you can give it another one. Meanwhile every other unit is doing the same thing; the overall effect is like real time, but without the stress. Nothing moves while you give an order, no time passes. Long periods where units are doing nothing are just skipped over instantly, and you zoom ahead to the next order.

http://www.titansofsteel.de/

oleg · #3 October 24th, 2002, 02:16 PM

I always wander why there are no games based on Stargate (SG-1). At least I don't know any. SG-1 can give nice background for FPS, RTS or RPG games !

tesco samoa · #4 October 24th, 2002, 06:13 PM

Maybe because the first half of the game would be really good... and then some one would say... Lets rap this up now... People are thinking out there and enjoying this... Bring in the explosions and and get rid of the story....

capnq · #5 October 24th, 2002, 11:11 PM

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does anyone remember an old Amiga game that was based on a turn based/top down view BattleTech game?"

I had an old shareware title called Battlemech, but the floppy it came on got corrupted.

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I always wonder why there are no games based on Stargate (SG-1).

West End Games once had a license for a Stargate tabletop RPG, but the company folded before John Tynes {link} finished writing it.

sachmo · #6 October 24th, 2002, 11:22 PM

TODAY IS THE RELEASE DATE OF FRONT OFFICE FOOTBALL 4!!!

www.solecismic.com

Download the demo!!

www.solecismic.com/demo

Sorry, my soccer loving friends, but this is American football. Besides, you have Championship Manager, which might be the very best sports text simulation ever created!

Tenryu · #7 October 25th, 2002, 12:30 AM

I've been watching WiF ("World in Flames")computer game for about 2 years now.

http://www.a-d-g.com.au/

Go to above site and follow the links to the beta download page. It's starting to look really cool. They're going to release it without an AI opponent in first phase. At least that's the word I heard a while ago.

I have about 5 editions of the board game going back to the mid '80's I used to love it, played solitare for months at a time. My wife hated it though. I had to put it away so we could use the dining room table for Thanksgiving, lol!

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