Have you ever wanted to kill rednecks? Would you kill them if they were evil clones of your neighbors made by aliens that have kidnapped your favorite pig named “Bessie”? These questions and more are presented to you in a humorous FPS called Redneck Rampage developed by Xatrix Entertainment and published by Interplay.

It’s a beautiful sunny day. You fly over the nearby city, watching people doing their daily chores, houses being built, merchants trying to sell their wares. After a short flight, you enter a deep green forest, filled with different specimens of local flora and fauna. Suddenly, you hear a loud shreik and a series of fireballs hurls towards you. A giant wyvern has spotted you and has decided that you should become its lunch. You dodge the fireballs, which hit nearby trees, setting the entire area on fire. You fight back with your arsenal of lightnings and large flaming meteors. And then, out of sudden, another wizard dives down from the sky, with an apparent attempt to shred you to pieces with his army of undead archers. Welcome to the world of “Magic Carpet”!

In the early days of computer entertainment, the adventure games were by far the most popular genre. One reason behind it was their simple implementation: a true adventure game consisted of a black screen, several lines of text describing your nearest surroundings and a list of options, which the player would type in using his/her keyboard as the input. If the game wasn’t lucky enough to contain at least a small 4-color picture of the location you were in, everything was left to the imagination of the player. People loved it! But soon they would discover, that adventure games can be moved to a completely new and revolutionary dimension: something nobody ever imagined before.

Command Conquer just doesn’t feel quite right without Kane – the evil, charismatic leader of the “Brotherhood of Nod” faction. Perhaps this explains the excitement when Joe Kucan returned to play his role as Kane in Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, the latest game in the series that hit store shelves last year. Despite the promises for C&C 3, such as its unique “RTS as a Sport” multiplayer approach, and mostly positive reviews, many were let down by the dull mission briefings, multiplayer imbalances, and several other flaws in the game. Kane was back, but the experience was still sorely lacking in some spots.