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#ArticFox

    12-Dec-86 21:32:38
Sb: #43511-#ArticFox
Fm: Bob Lindstrom 76703,3052
To: Alex Schneider 71340,27
A good game? Good intentioned, I guess. It's a Battlezone-like tank combat simulation in the frozen North. However, it has more strategy than the arcade action of Battlezone. There are some nice 3-D graphics routines, a good sense of strategy and a fair amount of depth. However, the graphics are all flat planes or filled-in wire frames. And the animation is FAR from smooth. I wanted to like it more than I did but I found it just too slow moving and jerky. Frankly (I'm embarrassed to say), a Firebird program for the Atari ST called (I think) Glider Pilot uses 3-D wire frame graphics and has speed that puts Arctic Fox to shame (just giving it the eyeball test, that is).