Hired Guns

Published - 06/12/99

Storyline:

It's the 21st century. More than five hundred years ago, whose who could afford the passage left the poisoned and crowded earth to follow the three major corporations: Tesseract, Betelov and Grenworld, to the off-world colonies that had been established in the solar system. Tesseract was the first successful corporation to pave the way to the Luyten system, 10.8 light years from Earth, with the development of the interstellar drive.

Colonies were established and lives began anew, humanity began to flourish once again. The corporations amassed great wealth in this buoyant economy while the population grew at a steady rate. But eventually greed and jealousy led to fierce competition between the three corporations for consumer spending power and consumer loyalty. The unrest brought on the growth of strong military forces on all sides.

The Luytenian Economic Conflicts raged for almost two hundred years, wiping out entire colonized planets in their wake. The corporations armed forces began to feel the crunch when colonies forced to survive created their own militias.

Tesseract, Betelov and Grenworld were forced to turn to hired mercenaries to deal with the specialized data espionage, rather than fund the costly armed forces they had created. Enter the "hired guns", a crack team of four of the solar system's most ruthless mercenaries lead by a man named Kircher. Hired by the corporations to deal with specialized data espionage, these sadistic outcasts carry out suicidal missions in an effort to sabotage their corporate clients' competition. Choosing to play off all sides of the fence, they may do whatever will bring them power and hard cash.

Features:

· Quad-screen view allows first-person perspective of four characters simultaneously
· Four character simultaneous action-command a team of four mercenaries
· Huge, brightly-colored, neon-filled worlds and levels
· Unique balance of puzzle solving, strategic decision-making and all-out explosive action · Characters have unique attributes which leads to strategic gaming
· Unreal 3D engine.
· Co-operative multiplayer support via LAN.

Type:
First-Person Shooter

Developer:
Devil's Thumb Entertainment

Publisher:
Psygnosis

Requirements:
Pentium® 166
16 Mb RAM
2X Speed CD-ROM
16-bit Soundcard

3D-Accelerated

Expected Release:
Quarter 4 of 1999

Multiplayer:
Yes