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              <p align="left"><b><i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">All 
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                    <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Subject: 
                      </b>Action vs. Deathmatch</font></p>
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                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">In general, I 
                      found your &quot;Game of the Year&quot; awards to be quite 
                      well thought out and reasonable. I was a bit surprised to 
                      see Omikron in the running, but since it didn't win, I can't 
                      complain. I have one minor complaint, however.Having separate 
                      categories for &quot;Action&quot; and &quot;Deathmatch&quot; 
                      seems a lot like a cop-out to me. This is compounded by 
                      the fact that these awards are presented on the same page; 
                      it really looks like these two categories were created simply 
                      so Quake III Arena and Unreal Tournament could both receive 
                      awards and less controversy be generated. I'd like to give 
                      you the benefit of the doubt, as your publication does not 
                      strike me as one whose editorship fears controversy, but 
                      in my personal opinion, refusing to pit Q3 against UT is 
                      a weak move, in avoidance of serious critical evaluation.</font></p>
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                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Marcus Yamashita</font></p>
                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><i> Omikron fully 
                      deserved to win, in my opinion..it’s one of the most original 
                      games I’ve seen in ages, and a ton of fun to play. The action 
                      vs. deathmatch thing, oh, I know, I asked the loon himself 
                      about it. He swore they were different, and I guess they 
                      are. After all, I recently was part of a buyer’s guide that 
                      has both an action and first person shooter category, and 
                      I never questioned that. Nobody has questioned that, actually...and 
                      isn’t deathmatch just a different term for the same thing 
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                    <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Subject:</b> 
                      Thanks for supporting System Shock 2</font></p>
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                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I am not affiliated 
                      with the creators of system shock 2, but I, being a big 
                      Quake guy (<a href="http://www.clanjungle.com">http://www.clanjungle.com</a>) 
                      played and _loved_ system shock 2 but unfortunately very 
                      few people seem to know about this game.</font></p>
                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">In fact, I probably 
                      wouldn't have played it myself except I got it for a birthday 
                      present &lt;embarrassed grin&gt;. Why wouldn't I have played 
                      it? The main reason was because it wasn't using the Quake 
                      engine, honestly. That may seem silly, but I figured it 
                      wasn't worth my time if it didn't have the touch of Carmack 
                      somewhere in it.</font></p>
                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">But I was wrong. 
                      Despite the engine not being up to paar with Quake (IMO), 
                      it was still good enough to not detract from the _awesome_ 
                      storyline and _awesome_ atmosphere.</font></p>
                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Everyone who 
                      liked Half Life should play this game!!!</font></p>
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                    <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Subject: 
                      </b>best online game of the year</font></p>
                    <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">EVERQUEST!!!!!!</font></p>
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                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">must have the 
                      everquest on there in the awards somewhere.</font></p>
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                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">most addicting</font></p>
                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">game most likely 
                      to cause you and your girlfriend to break up</font></p>
                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">most likely to 
                      forget to eat</font></p>
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                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">etc etc ;-)</font></p>
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                    <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">msew</font></p>
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                    <p><i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I wanted a 
                      Role Playing Game category, but for Asheron&#146;s Call, 
                      not EverQuest. So, um, no. :)</font></i></p>
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