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ARPSTOCK --- Hopkins FBI, the monumental fully-animated (not just rendered) game from PolyEx Software, was a popular booth on the show floor.  Seven animators spent two years doing the drawings, which were then scanned and colored.  The high resolution fills any screen, and owner Adam Hall demonstrated the game on one of the larger monitors to grace the exhibits.

           More than just a shoot-'em-up kids' game, Hopkins FBI develops the characters and the scenes, and is fully interactive.  You move a character into a situation or scene, and then select the conversation or action.  Mesmerizing.  Full music score accompanies the story.

           Also on display was the new PolyEx game Vigilance On Talos.  It's an arcade shoot-'em-up for those times when you'd rather react than think.  The Xenos aliens of Talos are capturing Earth daughters and doing terrible things to them.  You and your band of mercenaries must capture them back.

           I didn't play the game so I don't know the outcome.  Perhaps your reward is the Earth daughters.

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PolyEx Software, http://www.polyex.com/