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Kingpin
Developer: Interplay
Genre: action
Windows PC
Kingpin, South Central Los Angeles’ an
swer to the already-glutted first-person
shooter market, is a slap in the face to the
“reduce violence in video games” crowd. In
the tradition of such irreverent titles as Duke
Nuke ‘Em, Kingpin is a tongue-in-cheek ac
tion version of Dolemite, but with more curs
ing, shooting and unfortunate stereotypes.
As a pure action game. Kingpin is not all
bad. The requisite 3-D bad guys, while fair
ly generic, are presentable enough to fill
with lead. The environments are truly en
grossing and beautifully rendered (pasty
white suburbanites may finally understand
what the ghetto looks like) and the levels
hold just enough surprises to keep a jaded
gunslinger going.
And going and going. The fighting in
Kingpin is intense, and deaths are not pretty.
Shoot a bad guy in the arm, and he drops his
gun. Blast away at point-blank range into his
face with a submachine gun, and prepare to
make a case against the media’s role in
school violence.
Unfortunately, Kingpin promises more
than it delivers. Interplay offers the option of
hiring thugs to reduce the “player versus the
world” mentality common to shooter games,
but the computer-controlled helpers are not
smart enough to avoid stepping straight into
streams of flying lead or bright enough to
grasp the concept of walking through a door.
Then there are the stereotypes. A stroll
through the Kingpin world quickly devolves
into a chant of “Pimps, whores and crack-
heads — Oh my!” from the player. While
the mean streets are not known for their tol
erant attitude or clean language, Kingpin is
as over-the-top with its character presenta
tions as it is with its violence. No matter —
the player’s character rarely interacts with
other characters without the aid of a gun or
blunt instrument.
Kingpin is a fine shooter, but there al
ready are plenty of those around. While the
action aspect of the game is a decent effort,
it is overshadowed by the games sophomoric
depiction of the underworld. (Grade: C)
— Stephen Wells
Army Men: Sarge's Heroes
Developer: 3DO
Genre: Action
Nintendo 64
This game has one of the best concepts to
come around in a long time — commanding
little green Army men and waging war all
over the house.
The developers must have worked hard to
make Surge's Heroes one of the most frustrat
ing games to play, a game which otherwise
could have been one of the all time greats.
The game control, which is seriously lack
ing, is one of the most annoying things about
the game. At times it seems as though the
character is not even reacting to the buttons
being pushed, making it easy to walk into a
bathtub full of water and drown instead of
jumping onto a toy boat and staying afloat.
Game control aside, this game is subpar.
Sadly, it is the little things that make this
game unbearable. For one, the camera angle
given to the players is weak, at best.
If a player is being chased by a pyromani-
ac with a flamethrower and runs around the
corner of a couch, the camera is slow in
catching up, and the player inevitably is
melted into a smoldering pool of plastic.
Another problem is the game can accom
modate up to four players only in battle
mode. This means a group of friends can
only fight each other, which is great at first
but wears thin after a few hours.
This also means they cannot play together
and tear through the evil tan army to try and
save the day.
The game levels become increasingly
more difficult as they progress and require
patience and vast amounts of time — some
thing not everyone who is expecting lots of
explosions has.
The game’s redeeming qualities are its
graphics and reality factor, at least as realis
tic as it could be when dealing wi,
men. For example, if somethingetfi
is not immediately near the charaa:
will get hurt — making the useofil
shells extremely fun. This game cot
great, but it’s only mediocre. (Grade
Resident Evil 3: Nen
Developer: Capcom
Genre: Adventure
Playstation
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again in the latest installment of theii
Evil series. This game takes unorigiiiii
heights as nothing has changed orbel
dated since the series’ last installnr
For fans of the series, this should:!
problem. The game is still fullofzocfl
killing fun, but after the innovatior f
Crisis, it is odd for Capcom tofallbaJ
the old style for Resident Evil 3.
Dino Crisis has polygon backgro[||
enable it to use camera movement til
en the intensity of the game, male:
more fun. Resident Evil reverts bad |
styles of still-picture backgrounds a:
camera movement.
Nothing is new for the plot eithe:
episode takes place a month afterti
Resident Evil and a few months bei
dent Evil 2. One would think the he
idents of the town would move out
first time all their neighbors turnedinta^
flesh-eating zombies.
One or two useful moves ate placed
the gameplay, like the ability to pushz
hies away whey they try to grab the pli
and a quick 180 to run away faster.
The end of Resident Evil 3 coincide:
the beginning of Resident Evil 2, show
the continuity between the two install:
Resident Evil 3 is not much morel
expansion of the previous two titles,
still fun — even if it is the same old it
(Grade: C)
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