Ravers vs Peaceniks v1.3.1

                   Review by Graham Raven

Described by the author as a VB, single player strat. game.  Two
'armies' battle it out (with accompanying music!) for local
domination.

Some of you may have experienced Michael Raven's infamous 'Nut the
Wall', which took computer games into new and uncharted depths!
(depths of what exactly, I'd rather not say!) This latest effort
is yet another landmark in games programming. Naturally, it is
very much in his own, inimitable style. Possibly the finest
element of Ravers vs Peacniks (RVP) is the musical accompaniment,
which is almost tolerable.  However, on the version of the game
which I had to review, you could either play the music, or play
the game, but not do both simultaneously. Hey what do you want
here? This isn't one of those ordinary, slick, mass produced
programs - this game has, er, um, naive and rustic charm which

only a blind horse could possibly appreciate during a flower
arranging competition!

Apparently some 7000 lunatics er, I mean 'avid net surfers'
rather, have already downloaded RVP from Mikes website and
actually run it on their own machines! It seems that the term
'FREE DOWNLOAD' clouded their better judgement. Let that be a
lesson to them I say! But enough from me, here's what other people
say about this game -

"Amusing for all the wrong reasons"

"This game isn't worth downloading"

"Very cool for lazy people"

"Good if you want to get bored"

"Awful"

"This is possibly the worst 'game' since Advanced Lawn Mower
Simulator. However, it does provide an illuminating and disturbing
insight into the political mindset of the author." (I contend this
latter comment is balderdash! G.)

"This game sucks, it is just some 5 year old drawings and typing
in the bottom that says what's happening. it's a waist of time to
download this game."  (at least when Mike was five, he could spell
better than this person!)

To conclude, it is apparent that the glaring secret behind the
making of RVP is way over many peoples' heads (especially those
who can't spell, or who talk nonsense about mindreading and
politics). Humorously challenged souls should steer well clear of
this program, they'll never get their heads around it!  However,
rather than letting you lie tossing and turning all night,
struggling to uncover the secret, I can give you a small clue to
what this silly game is really about, in the form of an anagram -
"OJKE"

Dare you discover the awful truth for yourselves? RVP can be
downloaded FREE from -

http://inforave.cjb.net

You must have the VB5 runtime files in your WINDOWS\SYSTEM folder
to make this program run apparently.

Comments etc can also be e.mailed to Mike:
mike.raven@technohead.co.uk

Rating: Better than some modern art I've seen!







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