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                      <h5><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000FF"><i><font color="#904C10" size="2">Geek 
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                        Russell &quot;RadPipe&quot; Lauzon</font></div>
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                    <h5 align="right"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color="#00025E">Vol. 
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                      December 16, 1999&nbsp; </font></b></h5>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The Glitterstream 
                mod for the GS is called Gun Frenzy. It&#146;s definitely a mod 
                in its own rite as it modifies a number of aspects of the game. 
                Thankfully it comes with a handy launcher done all in html. You 
                can play classic<b> Q2 </b>mode, arcade style, or Frenzy. People 
                familiar with arcade shooters will recognize arcade mode; you 
                have a certain number of bullets in your clip and you fire off 
                screen to reload. Frenzy gives you unlimited ammo of whatever 
                weapon you&#146;re carrying (you can only carry one at a time) 
                and lots of health, plus the knock-back factor is insane. Enemies 
                fly across the map when you shoot them. <b>Q2</b> mode is just 
                like the original.</font></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Okay here&#146;s 
                the real meat of the article. If you&#146;ve been skimming, stop 
                and read this paragraph, &acute;cause here&#146;s what the deal 
                is. The system was designed to work with a controller in each 
                hand. You hold the gun in your focus hand, the phaser in your 
                other. In <b>Quake II</b>, for example, you would move forward, 
                and backward with buttons on the front of the phaser, and you 
                use the hat on top to look around (+mlook). The gun is for aiming 
                at what&#146;s onscreen and for shooting. And I couldn&#146;t 
                get used to it. For one, I like both hands on the gun. I know 
                for a fact that very few pistol purists would hold a handgun one-handed, 
                so I hope they aren&#146;t marketing this system to those fine 
                folks. And holding a gun up at arms length gets very tiring very 
                quickly. How the heck do you strafe? Not without manually binding 
                keys.</font></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I think 
                it can&#146;t be done technically, but what I really wanted to 
                see was a way to look around my environment using the gun. Get 
                rid of that silly little phaser. If I aim the gun off the screen 
                to the right, then my view should shift to the right. If I aim 
                anywhere on screen then my view doesn&#146;t shift. It should 
                work the way a mouse works now. Again, technically I think that 
                it&#146;s impossible, because when the gun is off screen you can&#146;t 
                tell where it&#146;s pointed, but that&#146;s the way I would 
                like to see it happen. Call me crazy, but I think this system 
                is just begging for foot pedals. I&#146;ve seen them used in arcade 
                shooters, and I think it could really work here. All I really 
                need is forward/backward and side to side strafing movement. Would 
                that work? Maybe a &#147;hat&#148; on the gun where the hammer 
                would normally be? But still, this only works if I can look with 
                the gun.</font></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I think 
                the Gun System has a chance in the FPS market, but not as it&#146;s 
                currently designed. Just for fun I stuck my wife in front of the 
                computer with the GS, as a test for a non-hardcore gamer, and 
                she couldn&#146;t get used to it either (would you believe she 
                still prefers a joystick?). But I will say the GS definitely has 
                promise. I think the GS is better suited for arcade style games 
                like Area 51. I love that game, why hasn&#146;t it made it to 
                the PC? Waiting for the GS maybe?</font></p>
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              <p align="left"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The GS 
                is a little ahead of its time but it&#146;s gaining ground. It&#146;s 
                slowly gaining support from developers and the list of upcoming 
                titles that supports the GS is encouraging. I hope the GS does 
                well because I really think it&#146;s a step in the right direction. 
                </font></p>
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              <p align="right"><i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">- 
                Russell &quot;RadPipe&quot; Lauzon currently holds the world record 
                for using the word &quot;exhumed&quot; 15 times in a single sentence. 
                </font></i></p>
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<p><i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-2">Credits: Illustration 
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