News

You'll have already seen in the adverts section about the
reduction in price of two of Interactive Technology's adventures.
The next game from them will be Deadfall, a follow-up to Weird
Tales (reviewed this issue). It's a mystery story featuring Jules
de Grandin and uses a new, improved version of Zen.

Many of you will already know the name Topologika. If so, you'll
be pleased to hear that they are planning to convert all their
titles to the ST - that's Acheton, Kingdom of Hamil, Philosopher's
Quest, Countdown to Doom, Return to Doom, Last Days of Doom, Avon,
Murdac, Hezarin and Giantkiller. Phew ... that should be enough to
keep any text-only fans quiet for a long time! The Doom trilogy
at least will be produced as a compilation on one disk and the
first of the games should be available early in 1991. They're also
working on a new spoof adventure called Spysnatcher.

As you know, I got pretty addicted to Sim City when I was
reviewing it and though Sim Earth still isn't out, there is
already talk of a Sim City 2 which will be a more detailed game
than the original. The terrain will be more varied with mountains
and valleys and the area covered will be much larger so that more
than one city can be built, making it possible to have a
multi-player game with two players controlling different cities.
There'll be more scope within the cities too with sewer systems,
schools and even high-rise buildings! Also under development are
two add-ons for the original game, Graphics Sets 1 and 2. The
first, Ancient Cities will contain Ancient Asia, Medieval Times
and Wild West while the second, Future Cities will consist of
Future USA, Future Europe and Moon Colony. Each can be played on
its own or combined with one of Sim City's scenarios to give you
something like Medieval San Francisco!

Wargamers will be interested in ARC's plan to release Armada and
Borodino as a twin-pack. They're also bringing out a brand new
game, Gettysburg, in the near future. On the strategy side,
Mike Singleton's follow-up to Midwinter will be called Wildfire
and it promises to be a much more complex game which can be played
on three levels, training, solo mission or campaign game.