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Rick Lane

The untold story of SiN Episodes involves freeway chases, electrical cannons, a nude Elexis, and a whole lotta penises: 'It took Walmart saying they would cancel their order in order to get that removed'

SiN Episodes: Emergence.
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Anybody who is as hopelessly obsessed with Source engine games as I am will probably remember SiN Episodes: Emergence. Released in 2006, Emergence was the first part of Ritual Entertainment's massively ambitious plan to follow-up its 1998 FPS SiN. This plan, which dwarfed the aspirations of Half-Life 2's episodic expansions, would have told the sequel's story across a total of nine episodes, representing three games' worth of experiences developed over a decade.

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