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Gavin Smith

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Jul 6, 2002, 7:36:41 AM7/6/02
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Anyone have any experience of using Global Effect with Select? Sounds
like my kind of game...

Cheers,
Gavin

Harriet Bazley

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Jul 6, 2002, 6:21:59 PM7/6/02
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On 6 Jul 2002 as I do recall,
Gavin Smith wrote:

> Anyone have any experience of using Global Effect with Select? Sounds
> like my kind of game...
>

Not with Select - but if anyone can tell me how to play *any* of the
scenarios (even the Ice Age one!) without the world's dying of
overheating, I might actually bother to get Global Effect out again.
It's the only commercial game I've ever totally failed to obtain any
success in whatever :-(

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Ian Bannister

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Jul 11, 2002, 3:13:05 PM7/11/02
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In article <0c3300524...@freeuk.com>, Harriet Bazley

<har...@bazley.freeuk.com> wrote:
>
> On 6 Jul 2002 as I do recall,
> Gavin Smith wrote:
>
> > Anyone have any experience of using Global Effect with Select? Sounds
> > like my kind of game...
> >
> Not with Select - but if anyone can tell me how to play *any* of the
> scenarios (even the Ice Age one!) without the world's dying of
> overheating, I might actually bother to get Global Effect out again.
> It's the only commercial game I've ever totally failed to obtain any
> success in whatever :-(

I'm glad someone else has discovered this! I bought the game shortly after
finishing Dune II and played it a few times only. I was hoping it would be
like SimCity and the price tag suggested it would be good. I then assumed
that it wasn't very popular owing to the lack of comment about it. I totally
forgot about it till the RISC PC came along so I tried it and found it
didn't run. Certainly my choice for the biggest waste of money on a game.


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J M Atherton

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Jul 13, 2002, 8:54:38 AM7/13/02
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In message <na.cf87934b54.a...@argonet.co.uk>
Ian Bannister <banni...@argonet.co.uk> wrote:

Mine too. I bought it at a show because I liked the look of the battle
system. Then I found out the battle system was left out of the port I
was disgusted. I've hardly played it since. Complete waste of £15.

Jonathan
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Harriet Bazley

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Jul 14, 2002, 7:30:31 PM7/14/02
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On 13 Jul 2002 as I do recall,
J M Atherton wrote:

[Global Effect is useless]

>Complete waste of £15.
>
I've just come across a game called Worldscape in a box of ex-school
software which looks suspiciously similar in principle and interface to
Global Effect and is by the same publishers. (This, too, is
unplayable, due to what I assume to be a corrupted savefile on the Data
Disc and the lack of any apparent option to start a new game - the
ReadMe promises a random landscape generator, the documentation insert
explains that they decided to omit this as it was too slow for an
A3000!)

The docs for Worldscape mention that a later and more extensive
simulator might be forthcoming if there was sufficient interest. I
wonder if this was Global Effect?

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