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POD

aka: POD: Planet of Death
Moby ID: 644

Windows version

This game just plain sucks.

The Good
Nothing. It was meant to demonstrate the abilities of the new (at the time) MMX instructions Intel came up with, and didn't do a very good job at it.

The Bad
Horrendously slow 3D engine (to the point that watching the demo Machines of Madness on a 486 seems fast-paced), blocky and unvaried graphics, bad controls and complete lack of decent music and sound effects contribute to the general damn-I'm-gonna-delete-this factor of this game. The pointless and unchanging gameplay doesn't add much either, and the fact that this thing barely runs on the machine it was intended to demonstrate, a Pentium 166 MMX with a genuinely fast graphics card, doesn't show a great deal of capability on the developers' side.

The Bottom Line
A really horrible game. Keep away from it.

by Tomer Gabel (4538) on January 2, 2000

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