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==Reception== {{Video game reviews |rev1=[[Amiga Computing]] |rev1Score=93%<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://archive.org/stream/amiga-computing-magazine-019/AmigaComputing_019_Dec_1989#page/n35/mode/1up |author=Green |title=Time Traveller: Future Wars / He digs deepest who deepest digs|magazine=[[Amiga Computing]] |issue=19 |page=36 |date=December 1989 |publisher=[[Database Publications]] |access-date=2017-08-06}}</ref> |rev2=[[Amiga Format]] |rev2Score=84%<ref>{{cite magazine |first1=Nick |last1=Walkland |title=Future Wars |magazine=[[Amiga Format]] |issue=6 |page=67 |date=January 1990}}</ref> |rev3=[[CU Amiga]] |rev3Score=88%<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Future Wars |first1=Mark |last1=Patterson |magazine=[[CU Amiga]] |pages=46–47 |date=December 1989 |publisher=[[EMAP]]}}</ref> |rev4=[[Zzap!64]] |rev4Score=91%<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://archive.org/stream/zzap64-magazine-058/ZZap_64_Issue_058_1990_Feb#page/n21/mode/2up |title=Future Wars: Time Travellers |author=<!-- No byline --> |magazine=[[Zzap!64]] |issue=58 |pages=23–25 |date=February 1990 |publisher=[[Newsfield]]}}</ref> }} Upon release, ''Future Wars'' received positive reviews.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://amigareviews.classicgaming.gamespy.com/futurewa.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080131110725/http://amigareviews.classicgaming.gamespy.com/futurewa.htm |archive-date=2008-01-31 |title=Future Wars |website=Amiga Reviews |access-date=2017-08-06 |url-status=dead }}</ref> ''[[Computer Gaming World]]''{{'}}s Allen Greenberg praised the game's story as good, its graphics as "very imaginative and at times absolutely striking" and its musical score as "a respectable soundtrack which many will consider superior to most of those composed and released for theatrical films" but stated the same graphical detail was frequently hiding important objects vital to solving the game and hindering the player's movement in certain cases. It also criticized the ''Cinematique'' engine as "not quite the innovation Future War's designers claim it to be—similar features have appeared in games by Sierra as well as Lucasfilm."<ref name="greenberg199009">{{cite magazine |url=https://archive.org/stream/Computer_Gaming_World_Issue_74#page/n34/mode/1up | title=Interplay's Future Wars / The Transportation System at the End of the Universe |magazine=[[Computer Gaming World]] |issue=74 |pages=35, 59 |date=September 1990 |access-date=2017-08-06 |first1=Allen L. |last1=Greenberg }}</ref>
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