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Issue # 03:"the being philip johnson issuer"..............................................................................

..............................................welcome to "arch-fanzine #3: the Being Philip Johnson issue"..................................
...............................................................we had some mails asking for Philip Johnson.....................................................
................................................................................................................ we decided to do a PJ monographic issue...................
............................ of course it's not difficult to find PJ pictures.........................................................
................................................... but this is exactly the point that makes difficult to do something new about PJ........
......................................................................... we found some really interesting stuff in the Paystation 2 © world...........
..........apparently................... there is a pretty new game released at the beginning of february 2003............................
...............................................................based on the movie "Being John Malkovich"....................
................................... in which all John Malkovich features have been changed with Philip Johnson icons...............
.......................we present here the game...........................................we tryed it and we recommend it.........
......................................................................................check it out and enjoy....................

game story ..............................................................................

...........................................................The best and most original game of 2003 by a wide margin..................
.......... Based on Charlie Kaufman's insane and utterly unpredictable script for the movie "Being John Malkovich".................
..............................................."Being Philip Johnson" is consistently amazing.................................................................
........... Characters as Catherine Keener, John Malkovich, Cameron Diaz, and John Cusack act with great performances............
.............Cusack is puppeteer and his home life with wife Lotte, a veterinarian who keeps assorted wildlife in their apartment.......
..............................................................................sets the game's genially surreal tone...............................................
..............................the pace of which accelerates when he puts his nimble fingers to work in a filing job..........................
................................................................where he meets the smokily seductive Maxine ..............................................

....................eventually, he discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of Philip Johnson.....................................
................................................and things get yet weirder and funnier.........................................................
.........................entirely new plot twists open up like trapdoors and are always worth the fall.............................................
.................................... Seeking for something to fault the game for........................................................................
.................................some critics have argued that its ingenuity masks the lack of any underlying metaphorical significance......
............but all of "Being Philip Johnson" 's wacky narrative riffs--from the hilarious puppetry stuff to Lotte's caged monkey.........
..................and the contested terrain of Jonhson's head return to the questions of free will and identity.........................
.............................and the unstinting originality of the game is heartening testimony on these issues............................

.............."Being Philip Johnson" is a third-person adventure with stealth and beat 'em up action in equal quantities..............
.........set in a visually stunning movie world that feels like a warped Jonze movie.......................................................
...................................................... you may think this is a kiddie game, but you couldn't be more wrong.................................
..........................................despite the intellectual movie style animation...........................................................
..........................Philip Johnson does not pull any punches when it comes to violence..............................................
............................limbs are lopped, faces smashed and enemies impaled all in vivid colour..............................................
.....................to aid the bloodletting, PJ features a unique combat system where multiple opponents................................
....................(Mies, Kahn, Corb or more recents as Gehry, Meyer or Eisenman) can be targeted at once..........................
................................each highlighted with a different button icon above their heads (Circle, Square, etc)............................
...............press the corresponding button and PJ launches an attack at that person.........................................
....................so that full-on multi-opponent combos can be pulled off that make Bruce Lee look boring.................................
.............................in addition to PJ's melee attacks with fists and terrible metal puppets.............................................
...........................he can also take out guards with his tie - one shot, one kill if you're good enough..........................................

................But it's not all about running around like a New-yorkish Conan smacking people with sharpened bits of metal..............
....................PJ needs to be sneaky in order to survive some of the perils ahead and besides..................................................
..................... his stealth kills are some of the most gloriously gruesome parts of the game..................................
................................like a bare-chested Solid Snake, Philip Johnson can flatten himself against walls............................
............. tiptoe up behind guards and if undetected take them out swiftly and silently.........................................
................... (did he really just stick his sword in the eye of that prone guard? Yep, he did).............................................
................Key to PJ's progress is his spiritual guide, the bird Hitchcock..............................................................................
.....................You can send Hitchcock to scout ahead, activate switches, pick up items, read ancient hieroglyphs.........................
..............................and even distract guards, but ultimately it will be your warrior skills that will combat evil.......................

..........................if Disney ever re-made Conan the Barbarian as an animated feature they'd come up with Philip Johnson.......
.......................with visceral mass combat, mythical setting, magical storyline and gorgeously gory animation........................
............... all played out in a beautiful animated world, "Being Philip Johnson" will stun everyone who plays it.............................

game features ..............................................................................

>> Instinctive targeting system allows you to combat multiple opponents with fluid attack and defence combos
>>>> Sumptuous movie style graphics
>>>>>> Intense combat action and tactical stealth play
>>>>>>>> Learn how to use multiple weapons with your trainer Mies

game icons .............................................................................

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