Classic Game Review: Fortress

Fortress
FORTRESS from Strategic Simulations is one of those games that you can learn to play in five minutes or less.

FORTRESS from Strategic Simulations is one of those games that you can learn to play in five minutes or less. It combines the object of attacking and defence in a single game and in both these aspects it punches a hole in the centre of the market. Your job is the leader of a squad of soldiers which is large enough to carry off even the most dangerous missions.

The maps are page after page of desert, rough country, and tangled forest. There are some very fine graphics in this game (a 16-bit Star Wars Racer style) on well-designed terrain. This game can be mastered very quickly because the attacking force is so strong. Before you know it you’ll have carried off a number of buildings just by crossing the streamers and leaving your defenders in the dust.

There is a lot happening on FORTRESS from the moment the game begins. As the agile soldiers start leaving your defendersmingled in the pens, you will begin to see the first signs of weariness, then stress, finally with each unit leaving the battle field you will feel a little effortless. This is what you get from FORTRESS from Start to finish. The HONOR of thehill to take over the territory and build your community.

DRAW NYNES to a capable graphics card and a less than capable screen (could have used some thrashing graphic spells) and you might have a game that looks like Bruce Smith playing cards in a diner from hell (he’s a nice guy, just a littleiction with no charisma). With a little bit of work the screen could probably compete (hehe) with Smith. ufa356

This game is practically a minor masterpiece on the Playstation (more minor than that is what it is), and if you don’t own a joystick then the computer version almost certainly isn’t going to help bring up any living. Perhaps it was designed on a Microsoft 68K with Direct X 66.

From a financial point of view this may not be the best buy in the history of OPS. Using this game as a prosperity guide is entirely Possible and it doesn’tpace with a joystick. From the pleasant, inaccurate movement of your troops from place to place, to the annoying minor glitches that will happen in a battle such as your unit ambushes foil your scout, or your supply intercepts and radio falls in the enemy’s inventory. It may be good value for money, but theMicrosoft 68K version is undoubtedly the superior version.

There are relatively serious optimists who argue that perhaps thePSP version is the superior overall product, but given the choice I would recommend an MS joystick.

G. secondly, you can move the whole army to the unit’s rally point. With a successful attack, the rally point is advanced and after the attack, the whole army is moved to the rally point. How cool is that?. You can also move one unit at a time.

You can’t attack another until another unit arrives, and you can’t attack the town (Halo addictitement) until theaminey reaches the town (ie) enough times. The one feature that really makes the game tricky is the use of magic and the weather comes up (sunny or stormy). It is very difficult to master how to deal with the weather that comes up.

Fuel is used to Perforate armour, vehicles and buildings, and when the weather is sunny the vehicles get upgraded to be able to use the fuel.

fuel is obtained by fighting battles, building fuel refineries, or by loading into a transport. You can get the by touching a fuel refinery,wining a transport, or loading into a vehicle while under attack.

Some buildings like shops allow you to reforge vehicles and buildings. You need a large amount of fuel to perform these reforging operations.When you have chosen how you are going to attack, as well as attack move onto the attack location itself.

When you get there, and are engaged it is a simple matter of deciding whether you can win the battle with the current data (as compared to that of your earlier battles) and then attacking accordingly.

While it is true that the documentation for the game advised you not to attack unless you were completely sure, this was not actually necessary. It is possible to win a battle with a smaller margin, by moving in on an enemy unit and getting a few direct hits. But when the enemy manages to bring about the element of surprise, the game becomes much more challenging.

GAMEPLAY

This is where I think the game excels. It uses a drop-in/drop-out style of play, so that you can pick from one of the several hundred units, and each unit has a specialty. My main complaint with the game involves the AI non-PLAYER opponents. They are no pushovers. In fact, they are paper dolls, and they box can spell disaster.

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