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The Half-Life game modification "The Specialists" is one of the very few examples of multiplayer "Gun Fu". The mod features melee and gun combat, with encounters often resulting in frenzied exchanges involving both types of attack. Dual-wielding weapons, slow motion, and advanced melee are popular features of the mod which still has a loyal following years after the final version was announced. Another Half-Life mod, "The Opera", is named after Hong Kong blood operas, and features akimbo-wielded handguns and stylized gunplay - players are awarded cash for stylish kills performed during flips, cartwheels, and other martial-arts inspired maneuvers.
"Gun fu" moves, closely tied with a slo-mo concept essential to their execution, appear in the video game Max Payne, along with dual-wielding various weapons, including semi-automatic pistols and machine pistols such as the Uzi and the Ingram MAC-10. The game, itself heavily influenced by Hong Kong action cinema, arguably signified the advent of extensive slo-mo as an interactive device in videogames.
Shadow Hearts: From the New World features a character, Natan, whose special skill is labeled "Gun Fu" and is designed to resemble the martial art.
Dante, from the Devil May Cry series, employs "gun fu" using a variety of firearms, the wielding of dual pistols being his trademark.
In 2007, Stranglehold, a game sequel to John Woo's cult film Hard Boiled was released, which featured the protagonist Police Inspector Tequila on another blood driven conquest.
Noel Vermillion from the fighting game BlazBlue also uses gun kata with her two Nox Nyctores pistols, Arcus Diabolus Bolverk.
In 2009, Cryptic Studios released Champions Online which features a "munitions" class that contains several abilities that utilize dual-wielding pistols. Many of the powers combine firing with martial arts, including a "Bullet Ballet" power and a high level ability called "Lead Tempest". Likewise, the similar game City of Heroes incorporated a Dual Pistols power set into the game in the expansion pack, Going Rogue, which involves switching between ammunition types mid-combat and various trick shots.
The Ranger/Desperado class in Dungeon Fighter Online has several "gun fu" style abilities.
The 2012 video game, The Darkness II, has "gun kata" as one of the abilities that can be purchased.
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“It is among the ranks of school-age children, those six- to twelve-year-olds who once avidly filled their free moments with childhood play, that the greatest change is evident. In the place of traditional, sometimes ancient childhood games that were still popular a generation ago, in the place of fantasy and make- believe play . . . today’s children have substituted television viewing and, most recently, video games.”
—Marie Winn (20th century)
“I recently learned something quite interesting about video games. Many young people have developed incredible hand, eye, and brain coordination in playing these games. The air force believes these kids will be our outstanding pilots should they fly our jets.”
—Ronald Reagan (b. 1911)