Re: 3rd Person IF??

[Fred M. Sloniker <lazuli@fidalgo.net>]

On 28 Feb 2000 23:31:02 GMT, soleck@aol.com (Soleck) wrote:

>If I recall correctly, the old Infocom game "Suspended" had a
>first-person perspective that was really well implemented (IMHO,
>anyway).

I don't know if I'd call 'Suspended' a first-person perspective game.
It's a tough call, though.  The protagonist is referred to as 'you',
but he takes no actions on his own; he delegates tasks, and his
subordinates report to him, aka you, via the first person.

>I thought the whole concept of the player being able to interact with
>the outside world only by using a group of robots as his eyes and
>ears was genius.

I liked it also, in concept anyway.  The interface had some problems,
though, IMNSHO, and the game itself was pure puzzle.  Are there any
other IF games that do something like this?  (In the non-IF field, I
can think of some examples, most recently 'Rainbow Six'.)