Sin is a
first-person shooter created by
Ritual Entertainment from
Dallas,
Texas and published by
Activision. Features a
trash-talking buff cop as the hero, a
smart-alec hacker sidekick, and a
gorgeous,
evil CEO/
biogeneticist as the
villain. Also contains a branching
plotline, some fairly decent
graphics,
Duke Nukem-style
interactivity, and a rockin'
intro video. It came out just a short time before
Half-Life and was berated in the
press for being massively
buggy. The
bugs (which were
show-stoppers) were cleared up in the 1.01
patch, but by then it was too late- Half-Life
mania was sweeping the gaming industry.
Ritual should be
commended for continuing to patch this product, however, even past the point of
profitabilty. In one of the later patches, they released
SinCTF, which added a new and complex team game for free.