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              <h5 align="right"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#00025E"><img src="../../images/icons/mouth_final.jpg" width="192" height="236" align="left"><loonystart>Vol. 
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                  That darn Playstation 2</font></i></font></b></p>
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                        <ignoreme>Ladies &amp; gentlemen, the world's most powerful 
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                But enough about the site...I need to 'rant a little. Probably 
                the most significant thing to happen during our little (cough) 
                hiatus, was Sony's official unveiling of their Playstation 2. 
                If you missed all the fanfare (how could you?) here's a rundown 
                on the new system: it's called, as was expected, the Playstation 
                2. It plays DVD movies, is backwards compatible with the original 
                Playstation (including the controllers), it has no modem out of 
                the box, but it features a PCMCIA expansion slot, along with two 
                USB ports. Also announced were a bunch of launch titles, including 
                <b>Gran Turismo 2000</b> (Sony), <b>Tekken Tag Tournament </b>(Namco), 
                and <b>Street Fighter EX3</b> (Capcom). The system is expected 
                to sell for around $300 or so when it's released in the US at 
                the end of next year. </div>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">And there 
                you have the dirt on the system.</font></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sadly, 
                as excited as I am about the hardware, I was very disappointed 
                with the launch lineup. Sony is going to launch the new system, 
                with, as far as I can tell, no &quot;killer app&quot; as it were. 
                The Dreamcast had several that contributed to its phenomenal launch: 
                <b>Sonic Adventure</b> (for the kids), <b>House of the Dead 2 
                </b>(for us zombie fans), <b>Soul Calibur </b>(for pretty much 
                everyone), <b>Ready 2 Rumble</b> and <b>NFL 2K </b>(for sports 
                fans). The Nintendo 64 had <b>Mario 64</b>...the Playstation 1 
                had, well, nothing. Which, of course, is why I didn't buy a PSX 
                until a good year and a half after its release. </font></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">But now, 
                there's even less reason to buy the new system. It's backwards 
                compatible, which means if you own a PSX and don't care for the 
                new games, you'll probably hold off. Unless of course, you want 
                it for a DVD player, in which case you'll buy it. The system is 
                expensive, no doubt about it. If the system does get released 
                at $300, it may sell phenomenally just because it's a relatively 
                inexpensive DVD player (and Sony's marketing machine, of course). 
                I'll buy it, since I'm an obsessive console collector, but I need 
                games, people! </font></p>
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                        <ignoreme>Munch's Oddysee - now there's a game (65k).</ignoreme></font></i></p>
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              The most promising Playstation 2 games won't make the Japanese launch, 
                no question...but I'm holding out for the US one. Oddworld's <b>Munch's 
                Oddysee</b> has serious potential, and assuming it makes the US 
                launch will be one of the first games I purchase - and even if 
                it doesn't make launch, it will likely be first game to genuinely 
                get me excited. Maybe it's just me, but I can't help but yawn 
                at the current lineup of titles.</div>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Let's 
                look at what we've got:<b> Gran Turismo 2000</b>. This is the 
                game everyone's screaming about, and frankly...I just don't care. 
                Sure, it's pretty, heck, it may be the best looking game I've 
                ever seen. But who cares? Under the hood, it's identical to <b>Gran 
                Turismo 2</b> for the Playstation 1. And I don't plan on buying 
                that, either. What else do we have? There's T<b>ekken Tag Tournament</b>, 
                a game that I don't care for, but again, is very pretty. And of 
                course, <b>Street Fighter EX3</b>, the latest attempt by Capcom 
                to make the transition to 3D, which if it's anything like its 
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