Word: splattered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...request of its publisher, Activision, id has included a bloodless game option that turns off offensive splatter. The interface is simple enough for anyone to learn in five minutes and play for five minutes at a time, and it doesn't take a Ph.D. in rocketry to get your head round such scenarios as Capture the Flag. "People will view it as a casual thing," Carmack told me, "a pastime...
Just as a lot of actors think they can direct, a lot of parents think their two-year-olds can splatter paint as well as Jackson Pollock. But ED HARRIS can attest that neither task is as simple as it seems. The actor is making his directorial debut--and playing the lead role--in a film based on the abstract expressionist, a project that has consumed Harris for six years. "It became a personal project," says Harris, "and I didn't want to hand it over to anyone else to direct...
...SPLATTER GAMES...
...find the video- game industry in a defensive crouch. After all, everybody from my wife to the President has made hay out of the fact that the boys who fired 600 rounds at their teachers and fellow students had nurtured their violent revenge fantasies, at least in part, playing splatter games like Doom and Quake. But on the floor of the Los Angeles Convention Center, where Quake III, the newest, bloodiest version, was on display, the only question on these guys' minds was "When can I play...
...inside the clamorous convention hall, that's just what the executives of the best-selling splatter games were doing--especially from pesky reporters. When I asked a designer for id, which makes Doom and Quake, if he would answer a few questions, he said sure. But when he heard that they were about violence in video games, he said I'd have to talk to his boss, id president Todd Hollenshead. When I headed off to find Hollenshead, I was intercepted by a public relations official who said that nobody from id would be available. Would I like to talk...