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Vox Pops! Soundbites from the Games Industry.
Favourite games of game devs - 1000 Games Industry members polled.
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Baldur’s Gate series Diablo: series
Curse of Monkey Island series
4/ Shadow of the Colossus 5/ Mass Effect series 6/ Batman Arkham Asylum 7/ Starcraft 8/ The Legend of Zelda 9/ EverQuest 10/ Devil May Cry 11/ Tomb Raider/ series 12/ Bioshock 13/ Metal Gear Solid 14/ World of Warcraft 15/ Deus Ex 16/ Super Mario series 17/ Call of Duty: MW 18/ Silent Hill 19/ Assassins Creed 20/ Deadspace
Win!
Quick Quiz! Think you know your video
games? Take this quick quiz.
1/ ‘Undercover’, ‘Hot Pursuit’ and ‘Carbon’ are titles in which series of racing games? Need For Speed - Gran Turismo - Wipeout
2/ What sort of video game is ‘Half-Life’, released in 1998?
First-person shooter - Strategy - Puzzle
3/ Which video game was released in 2007 in three versions; ‘Pegasus’, ‘Leo’ and ‘Dragon’? Mega Man Star Force - Dead Or Alive Xtreme 2 DarkStar One
4/ In the ‘Wipeout’ racing games, you race vehicles which do what? Hover above the ground - Travel underwater Travel through time
5/ Which author endorses the ‘Splinter Cell’ series of video games? Tom Clancy - Stephen King - Dan Brown
6/ Milla Jovovich starred in a 2002 movie based on which video game series? Resident Evil - Street Fighter - Mortal Kombat
7/ In 1992 Andrew Lloyd Webber had a hit single with a remix of music from which video game? Tetris - Super Mario Bros. - Sonic The Hedgehog
8/ The first three games in the ‘Call Of Duty’ series were set during which war? World War II - Vietnam War - Gulf War
9/ Zangief, Dhalsim and Chun-Li are characters in which video game series? Street Fighter - Super Mario Bros. Mortal Kombat
10/ What is the currency used in the video games ‘Sim City’ and ‘The Sims’? Simoleons - Simdollars - Simcoins
Answers in Next Issue.
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The prize goes to the most original research idea - judged by Garry himself.
Send responses to:
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