Talk:Risk (1996 video game)

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PlayStation version?

Hey, Jimmy! Next Generation #45 includes a review of a PlayStation version of Risk. Should that be considered a port of this Windows game, or a separate game altogether? I ask largely because Mobygames seems to think so: https://www.mobygames.com/game/risk-the-game-of-global-domination BOZ (talk) 03:53, 13 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@BOZ: Hey! Looking into it, I think this is definitely a port of the Windows release. Same cover artwork and publisher around the same time. Should be safe to add to this article. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 07:22, 13 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Will do! Maybe not today, but soon. :) BOZ (talk) 11:38, 13 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Having played both, the ps1 version is definitely a port (and is very watered down), but it has a few new changes, like power ups (such as heros, superforts, supercannons). It still incorporates ultimate risk mode, but allows for four players locally unlike the PC version which forced it into single player only. The overall resolution is lower than the PC, and there are other changes, like less tactic cards to choose from (only 3 in the ps1 version) while playing ultimate risk mode. Otherwise its the same game and uses a lot of the same animations, but the battle tactics cards in ultimate risk also doesn't show as much information as the PC version, so its just a watered down port essentially with a few extra features. --Themetacognologist (talk) 01:42, 20 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Bluesky software was not the developer

So I've been attempting to contact the original developers to try and modify the games code, I went on a wild goose chase and discovered George Kiss's personal email, the founder of Blue Sky Software, and he insists the company did not develop the 1996 PC version of risk, or the ps1 version, and looking at the article for blue sky software on wikipedia doesn't have Risk on its list of games that its developed. With that being the case, I was wondering why someone put Blue sky software as the developer? Where did this information come from? We should probably update it to reflect the real developers. --Themetacognologist (talk) 01:37, 20 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]