Buck Rogers: Matrix Cubed

Buck Rogers: Matrix Cubed
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Developer(s)	Strategic Simulations, Inc.
Publisher(s)	Strategic Simulations, Inc.
Series	Buck Rogers
Platforms	DOS
Release date(s)	1992
Genre(s)	Role-playing video game
Mode(s)	Single-player

Buck Rogers: Matrix Cubed is a role-playing video game developed and published by Strategic Simulations, Inc. in 1992.

Versions of the game were sold for the IBM PC Compatible (all versions used the Gold Box engine.)

The game took place in the Buck Rogers XXVC campaign setting. Matrix Cubed is a sequel to Countdown to Doomsday, which came out in 1990.

Reception

Computer Gaming World in 1992 criticized SSI for, as it did with Eye of the Beholder, giving the game an abrupt, anticlimactic ending. The magazine concluded that "overall, Matrix Cubed is a disappointment. Aside from the horrible ending, the pieces just don't fit together as well as they should", and inferior to Countdown to Doomsday. In 1993 the magazine stated that the game was "a disappointing sequel", advising those who were not a "real hard-core Rogers fan" to avoid it. The game was reviewed in 1992 in Dragon #182 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column. The reviewers gave the game 4 out of 5 stars.

See also

• Buck Rogers
• Buck Rogers XXVC for information about the XXVC game setting.
• Countdown to Doomsday for information about the story scenario.

Game differences

There is only one known version for MS-DOS:

OS	Version	Language
MS-DOS	V1.0	Turbo Pascal 6.0 (exepacked)

External links

• Buck Rogers: Matrix Cubed at MobyGames
• Buck Rogers: Matrix Cubed at GameSpot
• Buck Rogers: Matrix Cubed at IGN