>OTOH, on the "purist" side of the equation, I'm still livid that Old
>Man Nintendo decreed that Metroid Prime needs to be a first-person
>shooter. I *liked* Metroid; aside from the occasional bout of
>Marathon or Half-Life, I hate FPS.

Before you complain too loudly about FPS games, I *strongly* recomend you go out and play System Shock 2. Even the Demo will give you a fairly good idea of what an FPS is capable of outside of shooting. (Heck, you don't even encounter an *enemy* until about halfway through the demo.)

It's not the perspective, but the execution, that's important.

ObUF:

Did the SHODAN crisis happen in UF? (Presumably during the Exile.)

Thanks
Luc "Nanite" French