GamePro Reviews The Secret Missions

We've got another classic review from GamePro and Jonathan Stone. This one analyzes The Secret Missions for the Super Nintendo. It makes the common mistake of loosely referring to this as Wing Commander 2, although that was a separate game for the SNES. The most notable change might be the difficulty level. A new "rookie" difficulty was added, but even the "ace" level doesn't seem to be much harder than the original Wing Commander. The game has a special new introduction movie that goes into greater detail about the testing and operation behind the Sivar weapon. Take off and other minor scenes were expanded as well. The review also used the really pretty stylized art pictured on the box cover.

In Wing Commander by Mindscape you literally kicked tail as you blasted the evil cat people of the Kilrathi Empire out of the galaxy. Well, the cats are back and this time they possess the purr-fect planet-busting weapon! They'll stop at nothing to turn the Terran Federation into cosmic kitty litter.

Usage Problem:
1) Really; actually: “There are people in the world who literally do not know how to boil water” (Craig Claiborne).
2) Used as an intensive before a figurative expression.
For more than a hundred years, critics have remarked on the incoherency of using literally in a way that suggests the exact opposite of its primary sense of “in a manner that accords with the literal sense of the words.”

Space Sim First Look: Enosta Discovery Beyond

Russia is definitely a major force in space sim development these days. Enosta Discovery Beyond is beind developed by Akella. It's a third person space combat sim merged with role playing elements. There is complex advancement both for the ships and your primary character. Three galaxies are rich in NPC characters that players meet while trading, researching and improving their status in the universe. The game has a solid foundation, but sometimes I wonder if a new epic linear-tree military space combat sim wouldn't be a bit refreshing these days. Everyone wants to get in on the free roaming nonlinear gameplay, but sometimes structure is equally compelling if the game has good replay value. Enosta should be released by the end of the year.

A young courageous space pilot is an eye-witness of last days of his Galaxy. Trying to save his world, he starts to research the upcoming cataclysm of cosmic waste that swallows up the universe part by part like a giant black hole. The hero goes to an extreme fantastic and very dangerous world flying between dead planets finding cemeteries of spaceships, anomalies, artifacts and fighting against human enemies who have chosen the Dark Way many milleniums ago.

He has to find legendary Enosta world, the one which is free of Darkness.