<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(velik_m @ Aug 20 2006, 06:15 AM) [snapback]249708[/snapback]</div>
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3D isometric view was "popular" way before Populus or Treasure Trap. I think the reviewers should do some research before writing stuff like that. The games did exist before 1990.
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The reviewer used the words
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... games LIKE Populous and Treasure Trap...
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, so this list of games must be understood as examples and cannot be seen as concluding! Of course, there are other games (older and newer ones, well known and almost forgotten) using the same or a similar diagonal isometric view (e.g. Civilization, The Great Escape, Marble Madness, ...). The reviewer neither claimed this game to be one of or even the first one using diagonal isometric view nor to appear
before any of the other mentioned examples. There is no use in discussing which game was more popular than others, because first the word
has to be defined: schould it relate to the number of sales, the number of press releases, market durabilitiy, market spread, general public awareness or any combination of these properties. By the way, the visitors of this website are definitely not
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, so simply calling a poll in order to research, which game is more popular than others, would be a bad idea.
Perhaps anybody is likely to write an article about
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different solutions for graphical projections of three dimensional structures by two dimensional electronic means of display[/b]
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, who knows this might interest some people, or the autor might achieve any degree. But this is no reason for accusations without substance against the rewievers, which in general do a great job.