Ghosts

[Dennis Robert Redmond]

I was running the Max Payne demo on my new laptop, slackjawed with awe --
it's a dazzling work of art, I've got to sit down and do a write-up one of
these days -- when one of the screens cut to a skyline shot of NYC. Framed
against a billowing winter sky, there they were: the Twin Towers,
untouched by this nightmare we all live in called prehistory (the game is
set in NYC and was released this past summer).

I felt exactly like a deer caught in someone's headlights.

Weirdly, after a moment I felt really, *really* glad Remedy sat down and
created the game they did. The video art-work had defeated the historical
reality, if only for a moment -- death had somehow been robbed of its
sting. 

-- Dennis