Anachronox 
     (ROLE PLAYING)
                                      

   ION Storm has quite a few promising games in the hopper, but none come
   close to matching the ambition of Tom Hall's Anachronox. This is the
   first game in a long time from Hall, whose previously done 
   the Commander Keen series, Wolfenstein 3D, Rise of the Triad, and
   preliminary work on both Doom and Prey.

   Anachronox is a sprawling science fiction RPG featuring a reported
   189 monsters, 449 non-player characters, and 168 locations to
   visit. The game is using the Quake II engine, but will be played from
   a third-person perspective.

   Hall is being quiet about the plot, but he revealed some slight
   details. You play a down-on-your luck private detective who gets hired
   to research some ancient weapons of mysterious origin, and you uncover
   an epic tale of an alien civilization and a madman causing the
   universe to collapse in on itself. The game will feature eight main
   characters and you will control three of these at a time. Hall
   promised that the game will exploit every possible means of using
   these three characters, implying that there may be times you will be
   controlling numerous characters in different locations. 
   Anachronox is scheduled to be released on two CD-ROMs and DVD in early
   1999.