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To: Scot who wrote (1457)	7/14/1999 12:59:00 PM
From: Burlitis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1992

<<<I was not aware of this venture>>> Scot, I remember reading a PR a few months back about this, still not to sure what it means though. Come to think of it was there a press release announcing they were planning on buying the latest company? Q2 for the N64 made the top 10 according to the latest NPD data, Tarzan GBC is there to. Bugs Life N64 has disappeared, look out for Pokemon though, with the movie in Nov and Snap ready to release on the N64, it's going to be a VERY pokemon year. 3rd week must be the charm, it's time to break through 15 already!!!! Alex

To: Scot who wrote (1457)	7/22/1999 10:26:00 AM
From: Scot	Respond to of 1992

This goes to Alex's previous comments on game violence. Raven is developing a new game called Soldier of Fortune, which has been described as a cross between Quake and Rainbow Six. The game looks promising, but check out the "gore zone" feature. I wonder if we'll see this in the final game? -Scot pc.ign.com <<<Okay, okay, so far all of this sound a lot like any other well built first person shooter. What's the big deal? The big deal is the game's unbelievably gory look and feel. Unlike most games, which translate any hit to pixels in a box around an enemy profile into a bullet hole on the chest, Soldier of Fortune will use a slick new technique that breaks enemy characters into 26 'gore' zones. If you use a high caliber weapon to shoot a foe in his knee, his entire leg will be blown off and he'll topple over clutching at his lost limb. If you use the same gun to shoot a foe in his stomach, you could be treated (nothing's certain here) to the sight of his intestines protruding from a gaping wound (they continue to wiggle after he's hit the ground). Heads come apart in several different ways, we saw one foe's face disappear to be replaced with a gaping hole, another's head was split in two, a third lost the top of his cranium exposing the brains beneath and a final unlucky victim lost his head altogether. The end result of all of this is extremely disturbing, even to a jaded gamer like myself, but it's also kind of cool in a way that has nothing to do with violence. When you fire your gun into a room full of opponents, you see a response that's real, rather than just watching a room full of drone stagger backwards in unison.>>>