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Vol XXXV No. 63

Wednesday, December 5, 2001

  Kinetica drives new format in racing genre
By AMANDA GRECO
Associate Scene Editor

Here's an interesting twist on an old favorite. Racing games are perhaps the largest and bestloved genre of video games. In the past, gamers have been able to gain speed using conventional modes of transport such as cars, boats and motorcycles, ... [more]


Latest Metal Gear as `Solid' as they come
By C. SPENCER BEGGS
Scene Editor

Metal Gear Solid 2: the Sons of Liberty isn't a videogame, it's a movie. Of course, that statement is only half true; players of Konami's follow-up to the 1998 Playstation hit Metal Gear Solid will spend about as much time watching ... [more]


GTA 3: for mature audiences only
By BOB MASTERS
Scene Writer

When Pope John Paul II called 20th Century Western society a "culture of death," he may have anticipated a time when the average American could experience car-jacking, gang warfare, prostitution, drug use and homicide from the comfort of their own couch. ... [more]