“Y’all should make a video game about drug dealers and pimps”.
Sanity: Aiken’s Artifact isn’t a title that typically comes up in conversation all that much today. But, regardless, I’d argue it’s one of Monolith Production’s more fascinating projects.
Released in the year 2000 for Windows PCs, the 3D top-down action RPG was part of a two-game deal with Fox Interactive, which also included The Operative: No One Lives Forever (the Washington studio’s 1960s-themed first-person shooter), and was notable for a few different reasons. Not only did it feature a fairly innovative Magic the Gathering-inspired mechanic that saw players collecting special spell-like cards, called “Talents”, to unlock new elemental abilities, but it also included the video game debut of the rapper/musician/actor Ice T, who starred as Nathaniel Cain, a rough around the edges paranormal agent tasked with stopping a world-ending conspiracy.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
“Y’all should make a video game about drug dealers and pimps”.
Sanity: Aiken’s Artifact isn’t a title that typically comes up in conversation all that much today. But, regardless, I’d argue it’s one of Monolith Production’s more fascinating projects.
Released in the year 2000 for Windows PCs, the 3D top-down action RPG was part of a two-game deal with Fox Interactive, which also included The Operative: No One Lives Forever (the Washington studio’s 1960s-themed first-person shooter), and was notable for a few different reasons. Not only did it feature a fairly innovative Magic the Gathering-inspired mechanic that saw players collecting special spell-like cards, called “Talents”, to unlock new elemental abilities, but it also included the video game debut of the rapper/musician/actor Ice T, who starred as Nathaniel Cain, a rough around the edges paranormal agent tasked with stopping a world-ending conspiracy.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
