PERFECT GAMER

                  Reviewed by Michael Raven

Perfect Gamer is a 2-CD set of patches for hundreds of games,
making a total of over 800 individual patches and updates for
commercial and shareware games.  At first look, it sounds
excellent, and for some items, it is, and it is very easy to use.
However, there is not enough information regarding using patches
and it doesn't appear to say anything about when patches are
useless - one patch I loaded actually downgraded the game.  Mostly
also, the patches are actually slight upgrades to programs, which
fix a handful of tiny errors which most people wouldn't have
noticed anyway.

Also, it is rather slow in operation, and duplicates some items.
For instance, one program, a game maker called 'Klik & Play' had 9
different patches, all to upgrade different countries versions -
there was a UK version, a French one, Spanish, US, German, and
several others. Are these really necessary? Were the creators of
this package planning to sell exactly the same CD-set to several
countries?

Plus, it doesn't have an uninstall facility. It's these things
that make you more inclined to like their other programs.

Overall: 72%. Nice idea, wrong stuff on the CD. They haven't
worked at putting this thing together, just stuffed a pile of
updates on and attempt to charge people for it.










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