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From: she3328@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (Steven H. Eckwielen)
Subject: Iron Helix .. MY 2 cents
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Date: Fri, 7 Jan 1994 19:16:36 GMT
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I recently had a chance to play IRON HELIX...
The graphics are great....the sound is great...
but the adventure/action is terrible....
Sure I'm chased around this space ship by a probe which is trying to kill me...
But I get damn tired of always looking for DNA to open doors....
There is a fixed number of times that a graphical seguence is cool to watch..
The corridors all look the same....
the time it takes you to move from one place to the next takes forever....
Forward... pause... left (probe turns left) ... pause ... forward... pause....
It's slow paced (so far .. I gave up playing on phase 1 I was so bored)
Maybe it gets better when you get some video clues...or connect to a good
computer...not the stupid access panels in all the pathways...
As far as I can see I don't want to get stuck running around this ship for
the months it takes to play it, seeing and doing the same things over and over..
Just to have it say good job.....
I must say.. an action game it is not... and as for me..
I think I'lll stick to 7th Guest
at least that game was faster and had some action...
well that my 2 cents

-steve

PS.. by the way you like all the "......" (just a habit i guess... =) )

Steven Eckwielen    
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