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X-Wing Alliance
PC GAME REVIEW posted on 14 MAY 1999 by Arnaud Bouis
In a few words, I would say that you will surely love X-Wing Alliance if you liked TIE Fighter. This is the same brand of game, updated with state-of-the-art graphics, sounds and multi-player play. To enjoy it, you will need a strong configuration. I have not carried out tests with slower machines, but even my 400 MHz Celeron with a 16-MB TNT card can freeze and suffer from frame-rate hits in melees involving a few dozen spacecraft. On the other hand, outside of large battles the frame-rate seemed OK even on a 233 MHz Pentium II based system. Adjusting the details downwards did not make much of a difference. You apparently need a powerful configuration. Truly, X-Wing Alliance is a great game, and it seems quite robust as well (it crashed only once since I installed it). It will be one of the few games I’ll play from start to finish this year.
Panzer General II
PC GAME REVIEW posted on 26 JUN 1998 by Arnaud Bouis
A feeling of deja vu may overcome those used to the original Five Star Series, as Panzer General II is not fundamentally a 'new' game. It adds a lot of chrome, improved graphics, sounds etc, but no fundamentally new gaming experience. On the other hand, Panzer General II is a highly polished, beautiful product, a real little jewel which deserves an award - and it has received many. All in all, I would give Panzer General II a nine on a scale of one to ten (with ten being the best). Why only a nine? Primarily because Panzer General II is not truly an original game in concept or implementation, hence the game is only almost perfect.
East Front
PC GAME REVIEW posted on 30 MAR 1998 by Arnaud Bouis
East Front is focused on World War II tactical warfare during the German-Russian conflict along the Eastern Front. Each game piece represents a platoon of approximately three to six tanks / guns or 30-40 men. The turn structure is "I go, you go" and the maps are hexagonal grid with a scale of one hex equaling 250 meters. East Front is, therefore, in many ways a revival of the wonderful PanzerBlitz board game (for the grognards) transposed onto the PC. But the game system, as we'll see later, is different and more sophisticated.
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