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>usaders of Might and Magic
System: Playstation
Genre: Action/Role Playing Game
Developer: New World Computing
Gaming fans have enjoyed the Might and Magic
, ne scries for many years now. Crusaders of
- tfht and Magic puts a new spin on the series’ fa-
'j; iar world of sword and sorcery.
P,^ ? The player assumes the role of Drake, a man
1 ^ o lost his family as a boy when the Dark Hordes
icked. The action is set in a 3-D world where the
peter is followed from behind like in Tomb
'er Bui instead of pistols and shotguns, Drake
led with swords and magic.
The game has a wide variety of weapons,
irds and magic that can be obtained, so the
meplay is kept interesting.
Each weapon handles a bit differently and the
aracter becomes more skilled with the
J OiinnV il^P ns uses them more often.
J IpBme goes for the different
^flls he can cast. The
ordplay in the game is nice
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th a good array of different
GABBY RUENES/The Battalion
sword swings, and it helps in tight situations when the player is
greatly outnumbered.
The different moves, however, do not make the fights easy. In
fact, most of the battles are downright tough. This is the main
drawback of the game.
There are too many battles where all the player can only
trade slashes with the enemy. It is
too hard to avoid being hit during
hand-to-hand battle.
The learning curve on this game
is very high, and that can turn
away many gamers.
Any fan of the Might
and Magic games would
enjoy the chance to see
the series in 3-D.
The game can also
appeal to any gamers
who enjoy a good dun
geon romp. Just be
ready to practice be
fore getting far in the
game. (Grade: B-)
— Gabby
Ruenes
Vuthor Kesey creates film about ’60s counterculture
PIEASANT HILL, Ore. (AP) — For
entesey, digital technology has made it
)ss|)le to finish what LSD started back
ithlpsychedelic ’60s.
Working in a cluttered motel-room-
imed-studio near his Oregon farm, the au-
id an old friend, Ken Babbs, have just
leted the first installment of a movie
fflmlieir 1964 LSD-fueled bus trip across
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ton agreed to the T /olipsbook Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
lance to fill the sen. Kesey, best known for his novel One
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re play covers ofPranksters Look for a Koo! Place.
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latters. or,however, he could never get the audio
eston and wife nsync with the pictures. Powered pffthe
a performed it las. juBjenerator, the tape recorder had speed-
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ife. transferred the film and the audio-
lb a digital editing rig. With modem
}#are and a turn of a knob, the sound
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dent Clinton have a A iein’s monster, Kool Place lives,
instructor? Hvhen people ask what my best work
pur president is a t ] ie p, USi ” Kesey said. “Thosebooks
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! it possible for the bus to become.’
Kesey had used the profits from Cuck
oo ’s Nest to buy the old school bus and
take his friends — known as the Merry
Pranksters—to N ew York for the Wor 1 d’s
Fair and a party for his second novel,
Sometimes a Great Notion.
The trip soon turned into more, for
them and in the public imagination.
Kesey, who had tasted LSD in govern
ment trials, wanted to
share it with the masses.
A pitcher of LSD-laced
orange juice was a sta
ple ofthe bus refrigera
tor. The Pranksters put
on LSD parties known
as Acid Tests. (The drug
was legal then; by 1968,
half the states had crim
inalized it.)
The bus, nick
named Further and
painted in psychedelic
colors, became a counterculture icon.
“I thought you ought to be living your
art, rather than stepping back and describ
ing it,” Kesey said. The bus is “a metaphor
that’s instantly comprehensible. Every kid
understands it. It’s like John Ford’s Stage
coach with John Wayne in the driver’s seat
just like Cowboy Neal.”
Episode one scopes in on Neal Cassady,
the wheelman from Jack Kerouac’s On the
Road, who piloted the bus while turning out
a stream of rhythmic rap-babble.
“It’s what keeps this from just being
‘what I did on my summer vacation,”’
Kesey said. “We are keepers of the
flame of Cassady.”
The Proust-quoting Cassady, who had
only a ninth-grade education, was a bridge
between the Beats
and the hippies. He
died along a Mexican
railroad track in 1968.
Kesey said his cin
ematic inspirations are
Bergman and Fellini,
but Kool Place is more
like home movies.
The story would be
unclear without
Wol fe’s book. But the
images create an inti
macy that makes the
characters seem forever young, at a time
when gas cost 28 cents a gallon. Episode
one opens with an older Kesey and Babbs
in lab coats, finding a key to a vault.
“I’m scared,” Kesey said.
“1 don’t blame you,” said Babbs.
They open the vault and take out the
films. The flick of a switch starts the
clickety whirr of a projector.
“We are keepers
of the flame of
[author Neal]
Cassady”
— Ken Kesey
Author
In California oilfields, a highway pa
trolman pulls them over hut never suspects
these college kids dressed like Tommy
Hilfiger are packing LSD and marijuana.
In Arizona, the bus gets bogged down in
the sand by a river.
In Houston, Kesey visits pal Larry Mc-
Murtry, and the Pranksters lose one of their
number to a bad trip. In New Orleans, they
jam with a piano player in a bar and get
thrown out of a blacks-only beach.
Kesey is offering the film in video
episodes in signed psychedelic boxes
painted by him and Babbs on the motel
bathroom’s floor and sold on his Web site,
Intrepidtrips.com.
“We’re the people who planted the
seeds,” Kesey said. “Whether it’s artistical
ly valid or not, we have to cultivate the crop.”
“You compost it long enough and stuff
will grow out of it,” said Babbs, a Vietnam
helicopter pilot and longtime Prankster.
Aaron Kipnis, a professor of clinical
psychology at Pacific Graduate Institute
who says the Pranksters turned him on at
an Acid Test, said he is eager to check in
with them again.
“I can’t say whether it was the sub
stance or the people, the environment
or the time, but it moved me from be
ing a street punk to being a spiritual
seeker,” he said.
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