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ORIGINAL: ravinhood

Lol RoadWar 2000 reminds you of how you were easily amused?? I always thought it was an excellent tactical game using buses, cars, 18 wheelers etc. in combat. I still play it also and think it is one of the best sci-fi tactical games out there. And what's this Empire Deluxe, Enhanced Edition? I never saw that, what's enhanced about it? The AI is already great in just the deluxe version with the right settings.

THis is what I'm playing when I'm playing a computer game:

Battles of Napoleon
War of the Lance
Master of Magic (impossible difficulty)
Civilization II & IV
Alpha Centauri
2nd Manassas (mad minute)
Bull Run (mad minute)
X-Com "Terror From the Deep (best one)
Empire Deluxe
Combat Mission (special settings AI defender only)
Medieval Total War origional
Kohan II 
Spartan (v1.013)
The Seven Kingdoms (origional version)
Panzer General II
Galactic Civilization II 
Sacrifice
Masters of Orion II
Dominions III
HOMM II

These are all the best games with the best AI's. So, what's in your wallet?

Funny how that Roadwar2000 sticks to you isn't it ? I was hooked on that one back inthe Apple II+ days, riding around with a bus load of armsmasters and a few sporty compacts, bashing, crashing and shooting your way through fights, the freaking mutants ! Ahhh ! Hahaha.......But you hold it up to the current light now, you have to admit it needs some polishing, you know, the interface and the graphics, could be so much better...

EDEH, goto KillerbeeSoftware dot com and check it out man, going strong as ever. Loads of new units and mods and just great fun overall. Enhanced edition adds so much more to the Deluxe.

My wife likes that one so we play it H2H quite a bit. A true classic.

ORIGINAL: ravinhood

2008 OOTPBB is available now in case anyone was interested. It's just the best baseball sim I've ever played. Wish they had an AMerican football sim patterned after it. Oops is that not a Matrixgames game? Gee I'm sorweee.

Drop and give me 20 push-ups, mister -- one-handed. [:-]

How bout one finger KG....you know the ONE. [:D]

ORIGINAL: ravinhood

How bout one finger KG....you know the ONE. [:D]

That's the response I expected. [8|]

ORIGINAL: Jeffrey H.

ORIGINAL: ravinhood

Lol RoadWar 2000 reminds you of how you were easily amused?? I always thought it was an excellent tactical game using buses, cars, 18 wheelers etc. in combat. I still play it also and think it is one of the best sci-fi tactical games out there. And what's this Empire Deluxe, Enhanced Edition? I never saw that, what's enhanced about it? The AI is already great in just the deluxe version with the right settings.

THis is what I'm playing when I'm playing a computer game:

Battles of Napoleon
War of the Lance
Master of Magic (impossible difficulty)
Civilization II & IV
Alpha Centauri
2nd Manassas (mad minute)
Bull Run (mad minute)
X-Com "Terror From the Deep (best one)
Empire Deluxe
Combat Mission (special settings AI defender only)
Medieval Total War origional
Kohan II 
Spartan (v1.013)
The Seven Kingdoms (origional version)
Panzer General II
Galactic Civilization II 
Sacrifice
Masters of Orion II
Dominions III
HOMM II

These are all the best games with the best AI's. So, what's in your wallet?

Funny how that Roadwar2000 sticks to you isn't it ? I was hooked on that one back inthe Apple II+ days, riding around with a bus load of armsmasters and a few sporty compacts, bashing, crashing and shooting your way through fights, the freaking mutants ! Ahhh ! Hahaha.......But you hold it up to the current light now, you have to admit it needs some polishing, you know, the interface and the graphics, could be so much better...

EDEH, goto KillerbeeSoftware dot com and check it out man, going strong as ever. Loads of new units and mods and just great fun overall. Enhanced edition adds so much more to the Deluxe.

My wife likes that one so we play it H2H quite a bit. A true classic.

Yeah Roadwar 2000 was one of those excellent games of the time. Auto Duel as well. I liked post holocaust games back then a lot and another was Wasteland. I would like to see some present day games patterned after some of these epic games. We just get reruns of 1998 stuff onward though it seems. Many games end up being like these rock or pop singers with their one hit wonders fame and then they are gone. You know like the guys that did that "I would walk 500 miles" song "and I would walk 500 more" "to be the guy who walked a 1000 miles or more to your front door" whatever the name of it was. That's just one of the ones I remember being on that one hit wonder program on tv. There were like a 100 of them.

Ahhh Killerbee online software yeah I got their online Perfect General game. I was a bit disappointed though because it didn't have the scenarios I had grown used to when QQP was doing them. I liked the buy point system version better than I do this online newer version. Plus the AI had 20 difficulty settings. I still have Conquered Kingdoms one of my first PC games, but, it doesn't work on XP or DOSBOX because of the graphics drivers. I might look into Empire Deluxe Enhanced version though and see what they've added.

The Amiga version. Roadwar2000(and Europe) on PC looked crap.

Who made that game? Any chance for a remake?

SSI published it, I'm not sure who actually programmed it I never paid much attention to developers names except like those that stood out in PC magazines like Sid Meier and Roberta Williams.

Here it is:

   Game Design & Programming
                           Jeffrey A. Johnson
                            Game Development
                 Robert W. Calfee & Jeffrey A. Johnson


You can blame the following on the bad artwork (I liked it myself)

Art & Graphic Design
Louis Hsu Saekow, Kathryn Lee & Ben Willemsen


One thing I do remember most about the game is it was hard getting started and survive in the beginning. Especially when trying to get more crew you ended up in death trap encounters and usually died from them early on. So, if you play it save and save often in the beginning. Buses as I recall were my favorite vehicles as I loved to fill them up both inside and on top with those armsmasters as well. But, to really soak up the beauty and fun of RW2k you needed to have a spread of many types of vehicles and crews.

I dont blame the artists. The Amiga was simply miles ahead of PC at that time.
It was miles ahead in many departments but Bill Gates ways won .

ORIGINAL: marcusm
I dont blame the artists. The Amiga was simply miles ahead of PC at that time.
It was miles ahead in many departments but Bill Gates ways won .

Agreed! The motorola processor with the blitter chip was way ahead of everything else for a long time. I miss my beloved Amiga's. I had an A500, 600 and eventually 1200. The thing that made me go and buy one initially was when I saw that famous pic of King Tut on an A1000 my mate had bought. My jaw hit the floor when he showed it to me. My first pack of ten 3.5" floppy disks cost me £20!

I went from 1000 to 500 to 600 . Before that (C64 and my trusty old Speccy).
ZX Spectrum and Amiga, best computers I have owned. The Speccy made me appreciate coding
and the Amiga made gaming so much more fun.

ORIGINAL: marcusm

The Amiga version. Roadwar2000(and Europe) on PC looked crap.

Who made that game? Any chance for a remake?

When you play the game you can go to the city of San Jose and when you do that you go to SSI and meet the game designer, and when you leave the office all sorts of goodies get offered to you. This is a text-only part of the game.

I forget his name, I'll have to catch it next time I make it to San Jose.

Remake ? Don't think so, although it was a really fun game and still is fun in a way. The concept could be adapted of course.

It had a little bit of roleplaying, little bit of strat, little bit of tactical. Post holocaust USA. There was also a Europa version.

Yeah the bus was the best vehicle, but you really needed a mid sized coupe and a sports car or two to keep the rammers busy.

It was "Sword of Aragon" that put the buy me now into the Amiga 500. SSI wasn't porting it to the C=64 (dirty dogs) and I had to have this wonderful rpg wargame. I think it set me back about $300 game and puter together. Was livin in Phoenix Arizona at the time, this is also when I met Dave Landrey from SSI and became a beta tester. The color the Amiga put out was just simply fantastic for its time. Then after that I had a nice run of popular games on the Amiga like Warlords...who could forget the origional Warlords and then came along the ultimate classic of all times "Civilization" then of course Roadwar 2000 made its appearance and one can't forget 'Centurion Defender of Rome". Now, I have a closet full of Amiga 500 games on 3-1/2" floppy discs...oh almost forgot to mention another all time classic for the Amiga 500...WINGS I played this one almost as much as Civilization. I loved Wings I still long for a PC version of it. The music would just set you in the period and the combat engine was FUN not complicated like most flight sims today. The movement to realism an historical accuracy has ruined a lot of gaming at least to me. I remember the days of KISS games, they were fun and enjoyable and didn't require a lot of reading or even tutorials, lol tutorials what were those back in the good ole days...we didn't even have them. THat's how easy games were to get into.

Now nothing special of console's games.

Currently playing Panzer General 3: Scorched Earth
 
also played this year in (in most recent order):
 
East Front II
East Front (original)
Panzer General 3D: Allied Assault
Close Combat IV: Battle of the Bulge
Close Combat V: Normandy Invasion
 
The game I've played most on the PC:  Panzer General 2.

Witp and Empires
 
Dark crusade -War Hammer series- good game:)

Right now, it'd be BF '42 and Madden 08 on the PC, and Call of Duty 4 and NHL 08 for the 360.

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