<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(rabadi @ Mar 4 2005, 08:46 AM) [snapback]74703[/snapback]</div>
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As I mentioned earlier, this game looks interesting. However, it is probably not for me, seeing that the combat system is turn-based. I do very miserably with turn-based. So I guess I am going to pass this one.
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Well, forget what I said there. Since that time I have played a few turn-based games and have tried to learn to appreciate this combat system. So, I am giving Albion a shot right now. I already started playing it, haven't encountered any battle, though, since Tom has just crashed on the planet. I straight away agree that the 3D part of the game is annoying. The 2D part is excellent.
I downloaded the game from Abandonia here before the ESA incident. Too bad it is ESA protected now, so there is no chance to add the intro movie. Anyway, so far I experience no problem. I do not encounter the CD problem a lot of people are experiencing. The game runs with either VDMSound or DOSBox. However, in DOSBox, the game is quite slow. Too slow for my taste, honestly. Reducing or Raising the cycles does not seem to affect the performance. In VDMSound, the game plays much faster, but 15% to 20% of the right side of the screen get truncated. I am not too familiar with VDMSound, I do not find an option to set the resolution or to play the game in window mode. Anybody has a suggestion? Otherwise, I have to bear with the slowness of this game in DOSBox.