Re: What was this GS game? Read...

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Blake Patterson writes ...

> 
> I was describing a game for the GS that two friends had back in the day
> (to one of the friends who HAD the game -- but he does not remember
> it).  It was a adventure-sort-of-game with a perspective VERY similar to
> that of Diablo for the PC.  View from above, and off to an angle.  There
> were stones everywhere, etc - like a castle, etc.  It is not a side
> view, but a view from something like a 70-degree angle overhead. ....
> The game MAY have been put out by the company/people who did Zany Golf.
>
>      Does anyone know what this was? ....


     This sounds like "The Immortal" from Electronic Arts. The view is 
similar to "Diablo" and it is the only game of the kind for GS.

    'Immortal offers exceptional graphics and other nice features. (In 
fact, so does EA's Zany Golf-- which has one of the best ever intros of any 
Apple game.)  Unfortunately, like Zany Golf, Immortal falls short on game 
design 'nuts & bolts'.

     The major flaw relates to Game Saves. 'Immortal includes a moderately 
challenging arcade element which makes it easy to get killed at several 
points in the exploration of each Level. Yet, the adventure allows no Game 
Save except at the end of each Level. This problem may be circumvented in 
some hacked versions but it pretty well squelched interest in the original 
release. 


Rubywand