Rather than offering new weapons, the mission pack gave the player new ammo for already existing weapons, such as " lava nails " for the Nailgun, cluster grenades, rockets that split into four in a horizontal line, plasma cells, and a grappling hook to help in moving around the map.

Rather than using a beam of light or particles, a very small sharpened tip scans the surface by making physical contact with the bilayer and moving across it, like a record player needle.

Rather than monsters, the player faced typical adventuring parties, some of which were pulled from actual user disks sent to Sir-Tech for recovery.

Rather than one White and one Black move being given under each move number ( leading to notation in orthodox chess like 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 ), each turn by each player is given its own move number ( leading to notation in progressive chess like 1. e4 2. e5 Nf6 3. Bc4 Qh5 Qxf7 #).

Rather than using a simple " use key " to operate these computers, the crosshair acts as a mouse cursor over the screens allowing the player to use a computer in the game world.

Rather than the player playing through three related episodes as in the first Doom, gameplay takes place over one giant episode, albeit with interludes for when the story develops.

Rather than use bench player at second base, third-baseman Jayson Nix moved to second base and DH Edwin Encarnacion was inserted at third base.

Rather, the player continues skiing until he encounters an " abominable snow monster " who chases and attempts to eat the skier.

Rather than having a party decided by the plot as in previous Grandia games, Xtreme gives the player 8 characters from which the player is free to choose his preferred team.

Rather Artifact has chosen to put its full attention to making the player versus environment gameplay the best it can be.

Rather than making a chronological development related to the first story, I decided that redesigning the game from the alien point of view was excellent, and would make the player discover Another World with other eyes.

Rather than making his living as a hockey player, Gary stayed home to work on the family farm, as Rich Sutter remarked on an episode of the Canadian sports show Off the Record.

Rather than using this character to actively participate in the game, the player who controls it just needs a way to hold and transport goods, and perhaps to obtain more of some resources which are limited for each character by the game rules.

Rather than manage the team's front office, the player manages the career of his athlete: selecting movie roles, accepting product endorsement, etc.

Rather, a confluence of factors — prominent among them permadeath, player interdependence, and the desire for wealth — create an unsimulated political system.

Rather than execute him, the dryads allow the player to earn his freedom by helping them in the war against Valdis.

Rather than playing as Gabe Logan, the player is given the role of a new recruit working for Gabe's secret anti-terrorist organization, the IPCA.

Rather than risk being buried on the bench as a reserve player in the NBA, he opted to join Saski Baskonia of the Spanish ACB League, a team that had an open spot at the backup point guard position in 2005.

Rather than directly control the player character through the traditional real-time tactical role-playing battles of the other Battle Network games, Battle Chip Challenge tasks the player with creating a " Program Deck " made up of abilities called " Battle Chips ".

Rather than a common favor / kingdom rating, each city has its own favor towards the player, although these may be related ( for example, attacking an ally will make enemies respect the player more while allies will respect the player less ).

Rather, they are acts of hesed that go beyond measure and demonstrate that a person can go beyond the minimum expectations of the law and choose the unexpected.

" Rather than aspiring to compassion and wisdom, people can easily fall prey to the vices of cruelty, madness

Rather, it is a conceptual system possessing internal necessity that can only be so and by no means otherwise.

Rather, it is a conceptual system possessing internal necessity that can only be so and by no means otherwise.

Rather, we say that a real a is definable in the language of arithmetic ( or arithmetical ) if its Dedekind cut can be defined as a predicate in that language ; that is, if there is a first-order formula φ in the language of arithmetic, with two free variables, such that

Rather than have each computer application implement these from scratch, they can rely on the DBMS to supply such calculations.

Rather than purchasing a special purpose rifle, which many novice hunters would outgrow within a few hunting seasons, a single rifle can be used with special handloaded rounds until such time more powerful rounds are desired and become appropriate.

Rather than trying each case individually, which would unduly burden the judicial system, the cases can be consolidated into a class action.

: Rather than calling assailants " terrorists ," we can refer to them as bombers, hijackers, gunmen ( if we're sure no women were in the group ), militants, extremists, attackers or some other appropriate noun.

Rather, divination tends to be more about discovering information about the nature and condition of things that can help the magician gain insight and to make better decisions.

Rather one can conceptualize electrons to be ' particles ' that capriciously exist within the bounds of the electron cloud.

Rather than transmitting a password, or transmitting the hash of the password, password-authenticated key agreement systems can perform a zero-knowledge password proof, which proves knowledge of the password without exposing it.

Rather, the advantages of the format are seen in the manufacturing process: discs can be stamped ; cylinders could not be until 1901-1902 when the gold moulding process was introduced by Edison.

Rather, HTML can only say that the span of text " X586172 " is something that should be positioned near " Acme Gizmo " and "€ 199 ", etc.

Rather than propose a single definition for ubiquitous computing and for these related terms, a taxonomy of properties for ubiquitous computing has been proposed, from which different kinds or flavors of ubiquitous systems and applications can be described.

Rather, most of the Earth takes the form of a rheid, a form of solid that can move or deform under pressure.

Rather, Searle simply claims that to posit the existence of something that is like a " thought " in every way except for the fact that no one can ever be aware of it ( can never, indeed, " think " it ) is an incoherent concept.

Rather than randomly contacting a prospect or customer through a call center or sending mail, a company can concentrate its efforts on prospects that are predicted to have a high likelihood of responding to an offer.

Rather, they are conventional speakers that can be used with digital sound sources ( e. g., optical media, MP3 players, etc.

Rather than performing the calculation, one can simply look up the appropriate entry in the triangle.

Rather, morality can be seen as a subset of mores, held to be of central importance in view of their content, and often formalized in some kind of moral code.

Rather, there are fixed energy levels which the electrons can occupy, and values in between these levels are impossible.

Rather, original sin is the real and actual sin of Adam, passed on to his descendants ; rather than remaining until death ( or in the case of the damned, for all eternity ), it can be removed by the sacrament of baptism ( according to the new testament, baptism is only the first step in removing sin, sin is only removed once the individual is enveloped in the holy spirit ).

Rather, the name came about because the Russian word красная ( krasnaya ) can mean either " red " or " beautiful " ( the latter being rather archaic ; cf.