This after- apocalyptical RPG with elements adventure and strategy surely much more deserve consideration than it got. It be basically text RPG like tramp or amulet Yendor, but much more advanced and complex. Roadwar 2000 succeed call attempt simple and comical play more complex line which will add in more depths to play.

Action alone not have to be perfect, but it forms whacking environment for your adventure. A foreign and vital virus be spread across USA, and doctors have not yet been able find treatment. While country is lapse into anarchy, that showsthat the some nameless sparkling wine fanatic be past sewn and as though so have they developed vaccine. More and more gangs are incorporation, and they fight with one another control roads, cities, and supplies. Then, USA is smitten eukaryotic shot, with the result fall - out more disease - producing; but even worse, that made virus mutate. This mutated virus now will evoke extremely forcible behaviour in peoples. Germy be called monsters. To do things worse, enemy began inbreak from the south and they did not expect mutated virus this was resistant to their original vaccine. Dandy, some doctors across USA in the end succeed in cure people with some new pharmaceuticals. Now, every side needs the other's vaccine. Government subsoil Biolab, that operates safely in solitary confinement, now sent eight their agents to examined new pharmaceuticals and return some exhibits, but in plant chaos in the streets made return impossible. Only chance for them and the rest nation they will strong and organized honk with rather motivation to help.

Did you leader newly formed road gang. You don't get to in reality control your sign (not even are you attendant embattled), but you can drive whole honk. Instead of attributes and personal equipment you will operating your members honk, equipment honk, and vehicles. Vehicles be too important because their capacities they will define how much supplies you can carry and how much men you can have. Play is not very different from next text RPGS, but it is slightly more complex. You will care for your male health and of the state of your vehicles, search for new supplies, new men and vehicles, and militate against next gangs. In the end, you will be able control all cities and help your provincial.

You lead your honk across map that include USA, southern Canada, and Northern Mexico, and that is of replete by various print terrain, waies, and about sta cities. Play is veer based, with one veer visualization one’s o'clock. Most action they will take place in cities, especially while did you yet weak. Cities are best place to search supplies and people, then roads, then next terrain sorts with through the wood and desert at the end where no supplies can be found. You give order by pressing orderly letters. You will have to check your status honk regularly make sure, whether you have got enough of all. Your men consume food, your vehicles consume firing at shift, tires be destroyed and ammunition is spent in conflicts, and you need cure to care for sick man men... Also, more attractive seats, like cities, roads - or oilfield resources of other gangs and people in the area, namely may lead to unpleasant meeting. Champion battles obtain you supplies and experience for your man. Experience gains higher men for your man, meaning they will fight better, and that is just like amelioration their attributes. There are many vehicle mode and they sway meat, textures, rate of swelling, capacities for supplies, and crew. There's a quantity limit vehicles that you can have, so you will have to think of best vehicle combination. At the beginning games you can only have six vehicles, while max quantity vehicles you can obtain later is fifteen. Vehicles can be improved if special encounter occur (finding some special business).

Most important feature in those play is politic fight. You encountering foot - operated gangs, inhabitant, monstrynebo some next opponent of, but you buoy will automatically calculated computer and you get end - result battles. When you encounter next road gang you can choose among abstract, fast, and politic fight. Abstract fight is simple calculation like with foot - operated gangs, and fast fight gives you occasion hereto, dislocate your man in vehicles as well as some main militant strategy for your honk, be used in more complex calculations. Politic fight, nevertheless is turning- based play submitted in down from top view of battlefield. After dislocate your man in vehicles, and your vehicles afield, you can give order for every vehicle. To move vehicles, you must set their rate of swelling and direction, all the time contemplating another terrain sorts, crimp, and placing friend. When you be finished shifting your vehicles, it is time for attack phase veer. After that, there's a next interesting feature. You can reallocate your man among vehicles if they are in clingy squares. Your vehicles crew can also implore catch near enemy vehicles, unless your honk already attained utmost quantity vehicles. Troll vehicles can be hard, but if you succeedthat it%%= will grande loss to enemy honk. Probably most interesting feature in politic fight would hammer st. into. During kinetic parts veer, your vehicle can crash into enemy vehicles, likeliest inductive damage both of them. Result upsetting depend upon rate of swelling, pastes, and cavalry vehicles. It's even possible to completely infest next vehicle, but only if rate of both attributes vehicles is 2:1 (meaning your vehicle must be two - time so massive how next).

Except supplies as though you obtain some /by any /no win battle, victory of politic fight also increases number vehicles your honk may have one. This meansthat the you will have to militate against full politic fight to could achieve max quantity fifteen vehicles. After that, you can choose fast fight more often from politic buoy take time.

Your starting position is in accidental town in USA. From there, you have to build up your honk and survive till then, than did you strong enough to, to did much more than just hardly surviving. Start of be too hard, and you probably die a much, so keep in mind to protected your position often. Than in of other similar peas, accidental factor be present in most of the things, but no like the ones games, that is much better organized. For example, you have you got higher prospect of finding supplies in cities rather than levels, and more prospect of finding food in agricultural soils instead of of other supplies. If you loot a city too much, prospect of successful plundering will lowered. In smaller cities you will have smaller trouble with enemy gangs. If did you in town that is of smitten nuke, monster attack do you often. Because intruder come in handy to soldiers, it is not familiar with go to the southern cities into your honk is strong enough to. A gang control town will fight you if you enter their territories. In north side map there'll snow in winter months, making travelling and search supplies much harder. So, although hard, this after- apocalyptical USA in daybreak new century is something else, than crape - hanger place.

Any special meeting they may become, how already mentioned earlier - like finding place which betters your vehicles in search of cities. Also, you can find chums that you can recruit. These are doctors, drill sergeant and politicians. You need all three control town. As soon as you control one, you won't wield power trouble with house meetings, but next road gang can pay you visit. Doctors reduce number losable men in foot - operated conflicts and/or disorder. Drill sergeant lower rates desertion and will heighten support your men. Politicians be used for talking to people. There be no shown quantity their ability, but place that you can only try their characteristics record their work and of your own impression. You can also encounter healer who will cure infection monster if provided with rather remedies. In the end, you encountering agents and scientists who they will will be not leaving himself into time it's good - meaning till then, than you control most country.

Poverty of sound be cock ofthat the weakest point games. Computer calculations conflicts also be far from perfect, although will you like some of these imperfection, what is your honk champion battles without individual losses. Also, some field they may find play too hard at the beginning. In spite of to those shady pages, this play be wrapped up more'n ordinary.

In peas this way you always get as though sensationthat it%%= can offer even much more, but then you have to stop and check date when play be published. It is a very good play, and his interesting and improved play will do so unique. A net price necessity for all lover genre.

Before politic conflict, you be asked for type icon for that shall constitute your vehicles during buoy. Difference is that athat the icon for will either turn and indicate the direction vehicles - or will static and direction vehicles they will shown issue.

Make surethat the be read handbook to got more familiar with play and politic fight and see list of all orders from games only shows few of them. Also, here you will find more information about vehicles.

Play work in WinXP but you should use DOSBOX and reduce to cycles to could read all news. If you refuse wait for some calculation, you can always speed up when needed. At spare/pickling games, disuse option for change directory, how this can cause play to crash.

Year of publication: 1987

Made by: Strategic Simulations, Inc.

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