newsmakers While the first wave of Internet hype is now but a distant memory, the video game industry is gearing up for its own mini-version of the great online land rush. Makers of the three main game consoles are all planning to allow gamers to connect their devices to the Internet for online play. Microsoft has made the biggest promises for Xbox Live, but Sony will actually get to the Internet first. The giant consumer electronics conglomerate will release on Aug. 27 a network adapter that allows its PlayStation 2 game console to tap into a broadband or a dial-up Internet connection. http://news.com.com/2008-1082-955155.html?tag=fd_nc_1 As the opening credits roll on State of Emergency the whole story unravels itself on the nightly news. A commercial runs for a Hamburger restaurant and it exclaims that one Corporation food coupon will get you two hamburgers on Thursdays. The feminine voice of the newscaster then interrupts and pronounces a State of Emergency and that police are doing everything to bring the matter to control, at which point the camera pans back to reveal a gang of rioters that smash the window of the store in which the T.V. is being held and steal it. The story almost tells itself. A major corporation called…well, The Corporation… is basically doing its part to destroy free speech and democracy among this fair city. So rioters ban together to oppose this cruel form of government and the peaceful demonstrations soon become violent ones. Anyways you start the game in riot mode and you have the option to choose between two characters the first being a disgruntled ex-cop and the other a female lawyer. The first “level” is based in a shopping mall. Now, I guess this is where people tend to think that the game resembles GTA3, you see, you have missions to run while the looting and rioting goes on around you, all of the missions of course involve rioting, killing or stealing, themselves. http://www.ps2w.com/reviews/EpEFlkuAEyVpnNnfTO.php