KINGS QUEST VI çddf,faa,afa,aaf,faf,ffa,aff ³-------------------------------------- ¾King's Quest VI Review ¢By²:¹ Plugster/Defiance ³-------------------------------------- ²The company Sierra has been out of the Amiga industry since mid 1992. Their last game was a game based on Robin Hood (the name escapes me at this time). When that game was released, Sierra's last words to the Amiga community was that the Amiga was a poor computer and that the games they were going to release would not work on the Amiga. With that they left the Amiga platform for the other "advanced" computers. Though Sierra hasn't really entered the Amiga platform again, they have given the rights to Revolusion Software to do a port. In case you don't know, Revolusion Software was the company that released "Beneath A Steel Sky", one of my personal favorites. I have no doubts that this game will be a hit also. One thing I dislike is Sierra takes all credit for the game "King's Quest VI". No where on the box or in the manual is Revolusion Software mentioned. I just feel this is a bit unfair and that RS should recieve some credit. Now onto the actual game. Installing to a hard disk is not a quick procedure. So be ready to do something while the program installs. ¶²It doesn't take as long as "BASS", but that's because it only has 10 disks compared to "BASS"'s 15 disks. It takes an estimated 1 hour and 15 minutes to install. Remember that this was installing with a 68000 processor, it might be sped up if you have a faster processor. Though the graphics are nice, they don't attract me to them like some other games. RS did a good job at changing the graphics from 256 colors to the ECS 32 colors. They are nice, but not real great. The animation is choppy at some points, but MUCH faster than "King's Quest V" was. This, I'm sure, is also due to the fact I only have a 68000 processor. My guess would be 68020 would be good, but 68030 would be the best. I don't know how fast the game will be with a 68040 and I can't even imagine what a 68060 will do. The inventory pictures are another thing entirely. They are all in a tannish color. Some of the pictures don't look anything like what they're supposed to be. They could have spiced this up a bit. The music is nice. But it seems that there is only one piece of music. No matter where you go, the music is the same. To bad you can't shut it off some how. The puzzles are complex, but very logical. The usual Sierra game. You can't pick up a weapon, like a sword, but you can pick up a tooth pick. For ¶²the most part, the puzzles will take a little thinking to figure out. LIKES AND DISLIKES I like the fact that a game company like Sierra who said they'd never produce a game for the Amiga again finally realized the Amiga IS capable of playing their games. It's also a nice fact that Sierra realized that they don't know how to program for the Amiga so they got a company who DOES know to port "KQ6" for them. They may be becoming brighter. Any other "likes"? No. Everything about the game is just plain average. Music isn't special, graphics aren't special, game plot isn't special, etc... Dislikes are another story completely. There is no way to exit the game when your done so you have to reboot. I don't like how long the game takes to install on a hard disk. When you die in the game, you to go through the entire opening sequence from when you wash ashore. Not all the bugs have been taken out of the game (e.g. once I walked into the library to find the librarian was missing half his body. Another example is when I wanted to talk to a book worm, I had to talk to him from a stack of books behind him) A final thing I dislike is that the Amiga version has a few things removed from the original IBM version. I called Sierra to find out what they all removed, but they didn't know (duh!). ¶² ¾Ratings: Graphics: 80% Gameplay: 85% Control: 80% Sound: 80% ¹OVERALL RATING: 83%