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Hired Guns is a futuristic, first-person 3D shooter set in a slick, neon-washed cyberpunk world. It combines all-out first-person shooter action with intense strategic gameplay. The game's quad-screen view enables players to simultaneously command and view a four-character squad of ruthless mercenaries. Team play is key as each player faces a relentless onslaught of action while leading three other mercs to victory. Hired Guns features the acclaimed Unreal engine and supports cooperative multiplayer play via a LAN.
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Hired Guns is a computer role-playing game produced by DMA Design (distributed by Psygnosis) for the Amiga in 1993. The game is set in the year 2712, in which the player controls four mercenaries selected from a pool of twelve. One of the advancements of the game was that the four characters were on screen simultaneously in their own window. The game was ... ported to the PC.
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Hired Guns will take gamers through a vast array of different environments. There are cities, ruins, prison planets, futuristic mass transit stations, research labs, military bunker complexes, massive water transport facilities, underground caves, space stations, low-temperature storage facilities, fusion reactor stations, and more. The first thing that strikes the viewer is the vast scope of some of the levels, conjuring memories of the vast, vertigo-inducing levels of Jedi Knight more than anything in Epic's game.
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Hired Guns [I]s a neat futuristic RPG that allows you to control 4 characters simultaneously via 4 windows (see screenshot). The plot, which would send your band of galactic mercenaries on a wide variety of missions, is nonexistent at the start but develops into an interesting story of intergalactic espionage and warfare.
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In Washington, Wal-Mart has five lobbyists on its payroll, and a bench of hired guns led by Thomas Hale Boggs Jr., one of Capitol Hill's best-known lawyer-lobbyists. The company's political action committee was the biggest corporate donor to federal parties and candidates in 2003, with more than $1 million in contributions -- up from $182,000 during the 1997-98 election cycle, according to Federal Election Commission disclosure reports. Wal-Mart's PAC ranks as the second-largest in Washington, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan organization that tracks political giving.
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In Washington state, which got the highest grade in the Center's "Hired Guns" report, the spirit of the state's exemplary disclosure law is being undermined by lobbyists who report their clients' purposes on disclosure forms in vague, non-descriptive terms. Some state regulators and lawmakers seem determined to fix the problem, although nothing has been done yet. Meanwhile, in Tennessee, efforts to pass lobbying reform got bogged down over whether lobbyists should be required to disclose their income and client fees.
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