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Hired Guns (1993)

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Trailer of Hired Guns from Psygnosis's 1998 press kit CD.
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PRESS INFORMATION:

With attitude so bad they’ve been signed to contract in Hired Guns™, the first four-screen first-person shooter.

Atlanta, GA – May 28, 1998 - Its four times the action with Hired Guns from Psygnosis - the only first person shooter to in which you simultaneously command and view the actions of four characters. Hired Guns™ is developed by Devil's Thumb Entertainment and uses the Unreal® 3D engine and level editor from Epic games. Hired Guns offers near photo-realistic real -time environments, huge worlds and action around every corner.

Never has team shooting been so much fun as you command a team of four mercenaries and view their antics from a first person perspective in the unique quad screen view. Managing your team is key to survival and mission success and you operate in a world where security is nil. The action in Hired Guns takes place in the Luyten planetary system colonised by humans when Earth became overcrowded. But the three corporations, Tesseract, Betelov and Grenworld, who led the colonisation have become insecure and greedy and must defen themselves with groups of mercenaries who terrorise the population. But there are pockets of resistance to this subjugation and amongst those first to turn is Kircher, a member of the Technolius society, who buys himself three mercenaries on the open market and sets out to end the tyranny. The team of four, Kircher, Osverger, Rorian Deevergh and Myriel, are compelling characters and display a hilarious amount of ‘bad attitude’. In the game the characters can talk to each other with thousands of entertaining conversation possibilities.

Hired Guns stands out from its dark and gloomy first person shooter competitors being set in a slick, bright, neon-washed cyber-punk world. The shooting and action are balanced with puzzle-solving and strategic decision making.

Multi-player options include Internet, LAN (up to 8) and modem.

Developed by Devil’s Thumb Entertainment, Hired Guns will be available for PC CD-ROM in Q4 1998.

Unreal is a registered trademark of Epic Mega games.

General Information
Format: PC CD-ROM
Launch: 4th Quarter 1998
Genre: First-person 3D shooter
Number Of Players: 1-8
Developer: Devil’s Thumb Entertainment


Key Features
-Quad-screen view allows first-person perspective of four characters simultaneously
-Four-character simultaneous action - command a team of four mercenaries
-Huge, brightly-colored, neon-filled futuristic worlds and levels
-Unique balance of puzzle solving, strategic decision-making and all-out explosive action
-Unreal* 3D engine and level editor
-Multiplayer support via Internet, LAN and modem

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