This graphic violence is the game's main stylistic attraction, much like the destructible environments of Red Faction or bullet time of Max Payne.

Soldier of Fortune was praised as being a solid and entertaining shooter, with one of the game's greatest praises being its graphic depiction of gore and violence, which both proponents and detractors consider to be more realistic than most first-person shooter games.

Although Adventure Gamers cited the graphic style's " refusal to take itself seriously " was adding " immensely to the game's charm ", they found the secondary characters " criminally underdeveloped " and the ending " an anticlimax, leaving the player thinking he could have done so much more, if only the game ’ s programmers had let him ".

Relic has also repeatedly stated that they wanted to include the Tyranids in Dawn Of War, but the game's graphic engine " wouldn't do them justice ".

The game's graphic interface was later adapted for the CD-ROM release of The Secret of Monkey Island.

Defunct Games gave the game a C-stating that it offered " a much more traditional affair, the type that would probably appeal to a lot of die hard Sonic fans " however criticising the game's graphic style, sluggish controls and power-ups.

The game's graphic presentation of the executions are accentuated in a style reminiscent of a snuff film, and the game encourages players to execute enemies as brutally as possible.

Additionally, the game's renderer engine employs more advanced graphic technologies than was possible in the previous generation, including parallax mapping, ambient occlusion, subsurface scattering, and high dynamic range.

Soldier of Fortune was praised as being a solid and entertaining shooter, with one of the game's greatest praises being its graphic depiction of gore and violence, which both proponents and detractors consider to be more realistic than most first-person shooter games.

While the deaths of the game's enemies are for the most part visually cartoon-like, Andy himself can be crushed, incinerated, drowned, fall to his death, have his spine broken, or be eaten alive in graphic detail.

An architect was reportedly involved with designing the gameworld's structures and dungeons, and two graphic engines named Horizon and Labyrinth were used in the creation of the game's environments.

Written by Roberta Williams and Jane Jensen, KQVI is widely recognized as the high point in the series for its in-depth plot, landmark 3D graphic introduction movie ( created by Kronos Digital Entertainment ), and professional voice acting ( Hollywood actor Robby Benson provided the voice for Prince Alexander, the game's protagonist ).

The game's engine, Prism3d, may not respond on older graphic cards resulting in a game crash on the game's start-up.

The setting was decided by the game's graphic artists, deciding on an Aztec theme.

The wellways accessing different levels were a direct lift from the game, and the ' life force ' featuring a disintegrating human face was based on the game's rotting chicken graphic.

The game's graphic engine allows for more realistic damage effects and a blurred vision effect if the player comes into contact with a hard object.

The game's combat system is based heavily on Jacob Norwood's real-world historical martial arts studies.

The game's most remarkable feature is the ability to allow Nina to use her martial arts skills to break the bones of her enemies through use of carefully aimed attacks.

Being the first game in the series to have connection with real world history, Dance of the Maple Leaves inherited most of the previous game's interface, arts, and battle system, with subtle modifications, and wrapped with new plot.

Like many games of its time, Asteroids contains several bugs that were mostly the result of the original programmers underestimating the game's popularity or the skill of its players.

Block argues that rounders and early baseball were actually regional variants of each other, and that the game's most direct antecedents are the English games of stoolball and " tut-ball ".

Over the next couple seasons, The Boston Red Stockings dominated the league and hoarded many of the game's best players, even those who were under contract with other teams.

Walsh felt that this was because the Cowboys were scheduled to play the Rams the next week in a rare Sunday night game and that showing the highlights of the 49ers ' win would potentially hurt the game's ratings.

It is not known whether the game's printed screen shots were from an actual prototype or were merely pre-development illustrations.

Various spin-offs and modifications to the original Duke Nukem 3D were produced in the following years of the game's initial launch.

The visuals were drastically simplified, being closer to early shooters like Wolfenstein 3D ; also, it consists solely of Lunar Apocalypse, the second from the original game's three " episodes ", which was heavily modified to suit the engine.

Generally the maps produced in this add-on were considerably harder than the original game's maps due to tricks that Tom & Joe had learned in the editor since the release of the original.

Part of the game's appeal was the use of special moves that could only be discovered by experimenting with the game controls, which created a sense of mystique and invited players to practice the game, although similar controller motions used for grappling maneuvers in the earlier Brian Jacks Uchi Mata were deemed too difficult.

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Bookies had Carey as pre-count favourite for the Brownlow Medal on four separate occasions ( 1993, 1995, 1996 and 1998 ), but many believe his on field arrogance and backchat to umpires were the primary reason he never claimed the game's highest individual honor.

# Video game soundtracks are often released after a game's release, usually consisting of the background music from the game's levels, menus, title screens, promo material ( such as entire songs that only segments of which were used in the game ), cut-screens and occasionally sound-effects used in the game ( Examples: Sonic Heroes, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time )

The only significant additions to the game's engine were the Jjaro ship, multiple paths between levels, a new rapid-fire weapon that could be used underwater, and vacuum-enabled humans carrying fusion weapons ( called " Vacuum Bobs " or " VacBobs ").

The game's parser and time-saving techniques ( such as a " follow " command ) were similarly praised.

In North America, the game's popularity peaked in 1984, a year in which over 20 million games were sold.

Following a mid-season trade to Oakland in 1989, Henderson reasserted himself as one of the game's greatest players, with a memorable half-season in which his 52 steals and 72 runs scored led the A's into the postseason ; his 126 walks for the year were the most for any AL hitter since 1970.

" The simple design and layout were praised, as were the game's colorful graphics.

The weak points are the game's difficulty as the cars are quite difficult to drive well ( although many fans consider this to be a virtue, as Formula One cars of that era were difficult to drive compared to modern high-downforce cars ), and some minor physics flaws such as primitive aerodynamic modelling.

Also, the cars were difficult to drive, while the game's hardware requirements meant that it did not run well on many computers at the time of its release.

The game's insult swordfighting mechanics were influenced by swashbuckling movies starring Errol Flynn, which Gilbert, Schafer and Grossman often watched for inspiration.

Grossman believed that this benefited the game's writing, as he and Schafer " were all funny in slightly different ways, and it worked well together ".

The Air Force's, and the game's, final play, was a long pass by quarterback Bob McNaughton which Gannon intercepted on his own 44 and returned 22 yards.

By 1980, the way the game was played had changed dramatically due to innovative coaching tactics, with the phasing out of many of the game's kicking styles and the increasing use of handball ; whilst presentation was influenced by television.

In addition, if the situation of the game is such that the steal is of little use ( usually in the late innings when the runner would not change the game's outcome by scoring ), and the catcher does not attempt to throw out the runner, the runner is not credited with a steal, and the base is attributed to defensive indifference.

The game's music was written by Japanese team Zuntata.

The decks are thus usually proprietary, but may be created by the game's players.

Capcom has been criticised by fans for having to pay for additional content which is already available within the game's files.

Another important feature of the Doom engine is its modular data files, which allow most of the game's content to be replaced by loading custom WAD files.

The game's development and impact on popular culture is also the subject of the book Masters of Doom by David Kushner.

It was named # 37 overall among the " 150 Best Games of All Time " by Computer Gaming World Magazine ( 15th Anniversary Issue — November 1996 ), was voted # 13 overall in PC Gamer Magazine's Readers All-Time Top 50 Games Poll ( April 2000 issue ), the editors of PC Gamer ranked it # 12 in the Top 50 Games of all time, in their October 2001 issue, citing the game's humor and pop-culture references and it was ranked # 15 in the 50 Best Games of All Time list published by PC Gamer Magazine in its April 2005 issue.

* On October 4, 1906, Williams College defeated the Massachusetts Agricultural College, scoring the game's only touchdown on a forward pass by Waters.

Forseti appears in the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game's pantheon, and is often chosen as a patron god by paladins.

The feelies pioneered by text adventure company Infocom include many examples, such as blueprints, maps, documents, and publications designed within the context of each game's fictional setting.

Throughout the game's many editions, Gamma World has almost always remained strongly influenced by Dungeons & Dragons and other role-playing games of the time.

They enforce the game's rules by banishing spammers, player killers, cheaters, and hackers and by solving players ' problems by providing general customer service.

In the game's cosmology humans can regain their lost divine status through a game concept called Awakening in which characters with an extremely high or low mental balance are no longer restrained by the rules of the Illusion.

The board game Diplomacy recognises the Kiel Canal by allowing fleets to enter the region of Kiel from the west and exit to the east ( or vice versa ), which is not allowed in most of the game's other two-coast regions, such as Spain.

The software license agreement for The Movies stipulates that Activision, the game's publisher, owns " any and all content within ... Game Movies that was either supplied with the Program or otherwise made available ... by Activision or its licensors ..." Some game companies provide software to modify their own games, and machinima makers often cite fair use as a defense, but the issue has never been tested in court.

By the 1970s, the idea that the game had been created solely by Charles Darrow had become popular folklore: it was printed in the game's instructions and even in the 1974 book The Monopoly Book: Strategy and Tactics of the World's Most Popular Game by Maxine Brady.

In the game's third installment, Descent³, the player's character is rescued and then assisted by a group of scientists whose base of operations is located on Mars, before the facility is destroyed at one particular game level by an invading Earth force.

MMORPGs are distinguished from single-player or small multi-player RPGs by the number of players, and by the game's persistent world ( usually hosted by the game's publisher ), which continues to exist and evolve while the player is offline and away from the game.