First person APster.
Matthew X
profrv at nex.net.au
Sun May 16 05:28:03 PDT 1999
newsmakers While the first wave of Internet hype is now but a distant
memory, the video game industry is gearing up for its own mini-version of
the great online land rush.
Makers of the three main game consoles are all planning to allow gamers to
connect their devices to the Internet for online play. Microsoft has made
the biggest promises for Xbox Live, but Sony will actually get to the
Internet first. The giant consumer electronics conglomerate will release on
Aug. 27 a network adapter that allows its PlayStation 2 game console to tap
into a broadband or a dial-up Internet connection.
http://news.com.com/2008-1082-955155.html?tag=fd_nc_1
As the opening credits roll on State of Emergency the whole story unravels
itself on the nightly news. A commercial runs for a Hamburger restaurant
and it exclaims that one Corporation food coupon will get you two
hamburgers on Thursdays. The feminine voice of the newscaster then
interrupts and pronounces a State of Emergency and that police are doing
everything to bring the matter to control, at which point the camera pans
back to reveal a gang of rioters that smash the window of the store in
which the T.V. is being held and steal it. The story almost tells itself. A
major corporation called
well, The Corporation
is basically doing its part
to destroy free speech and democracy among this fair city. So rioters ban
together to oppose this cruel form of government and the peaceful
demonstrations soon become violent ones. Anyways you start the game in riot
mode and you have the option to choose between two characters the first
being a disgruntled ex-cop and the other a female lawyer. The first level
is based in a shopping mall. Now, I guess this is where people tend to
think that the game resembles GTA3, you see, you have missions to run while
the looting and rioting goes on around you, all of the missions of course
involve rioting, killing or stealing, themselves.
http://www.ps2w.com/reviews/EpEFlkuAEyVpnNnfTO.php
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