Posted 5 August 2006 to rec.games.int-fiction

Wanaselja@gmail.com wrote:
> 2006 IntroComp Reviews:
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> Child's Play, Stephen Granade
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nice gimmick but as an intro it didnt appeal to me, just as playing as a dog or a cat doesnt appeal. (3/10).

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> Mechs, Allan Crain
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too many fiddly machine bits, not enough forward momentum in this intro. (2/10).

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> Sabotage!, Felix Plesoianu
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didnt like it at all. just generic scifi and no great implementation. (1/10).

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> Nothing But Mazes, Greg Boettcher
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came as an executable—yuck! lots of tedious endless "kidnapped by aliens" prose—yuck! but once yuu actually get to play seems pretty interesting. (5/10).

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> Southern Gothic, Mordechai Shinefield
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intros have got to provide better motivation to the PC than this. just wandering around with nothing much to do. (1/10).

> The Art of Deception, she's long gone
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pretty good! clearly identifiable james bond genre spy IF, understandable opening task, game starts already in motion. couldnt solve it but would play again. (7/10)

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> Unyielding Fury, Michael Pruitt
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starts off annoyingly but once you find the object in the woods (by sheer random luck), it becomes by far the best intro in the comp. thats how you get someone gripped into the story. nice work. (9/10)