Game Guide
Deus Ex
Listener Mark from Baiting Hollow, NY recently sent this email:
My favorite game is Deus Ex. It's a perfect example of a first person shooter that requires more than run and gun. Deus Ex combines some of the best aspects of games like Half-Life and No One Lives Forever to bring together hours of gaming enjoyment. The only problem for some users is the graphic requirements to run this on older machines with slower video cards. Keep up the great work! Love your tips! BTW, is there a key stroke to represent the degree symbol?
Deus Ex is, as are many games of this genre, set in a world not unlike our own, except taken to a chaotic, anarchic extreme where the rich have gotten richer, the poor have gotten poorer, and terrorists, disease, drugs, and pollution abound. You play J.C. Denton, a bio-engineered anti-terrorist agent out to find the clues, solve the mysteries, and, of course, gun down the necessary allotment of bad guys. Note that the content of this game is age-sensitive.
And in answer to your question, Mark, it depends in which program you are trying to get the degree symbol to appear. If you are using MS Word, hold down the [Alt] key while pressing the numbers 0186 consecutively (not simultaneously) on the number pad. If you're using a keyboard that doesn't have the number pad, you'll have to create your own keyboard shortcut, as will WordPerfect users. We'll have more on setting keyboard shortcuts in both of those applications in upcoming weeks.
And for you web designers out there, the degree symbol has a matching character set that you can use to make it appear on your web page: º.
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