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Quite Possibly The Greatest First-Person Shooter I've Ever Played

Shooting people in the face has rarely been this enthralling.

When the newspaper wasn't enough, the website was there. When the text on the site got stale, there was always video. And now The Onion has uncovered the next layer for its totally sweet fake news jokes by making its own deliberately shitty Flash game, Close Range. The game demo serves as a follow-up to a video piece about the game, which is solely focused on shooting people in the face. Here is said report:

  


Good stuff. But it gets better when you realize that the URL mentioned in the piece, closerangegame.com, is active. It distills the first-person shooter experience down to its bare essentials by focusing on headshots and a unique, compelling story that rivals the heavyweights of the genre.
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Edited By Pkshields

I haven't even watched the video yet, but I can already say YES!

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MOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!

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Edited By Deusoma

When I tried to run the flash site, it crashed my browser. Thanks, Giant Bomb!

Oh, and the Onion is almost never funny.

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Deusoma said:
"When I tried to run the flash site, it crashed my browser. Thanks, Giant Bomb!

Oh, and the Onion is almost never funny."
They probably didn't know. I experienced the crashing problem, but I'm sure there are others who didn't.
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Brilliant.

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Wow that was fun, I especially like shooting with the shot gun and watching the head blow up lol.

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LOL, good stuff...and up next a new cure for crying babies...smothering
I think I need to change my username to Chainsaw Dawn too

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Suck on this, CoD 4!

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That was quite epic

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I would totally buy that game.

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Wrong... wrong... wrong... wrong... WRONG!  And funny.

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They made everything about that game look real, except for the game itself. I love it

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Edited By Kyle

Yeah, that's basically what all game hype sounds like to me. My favorite part is when the kid's like "yeah it's completely open-ended! You can shoot them in the ear... or, or the eye!". That's basically every game PR guy ever. They all want to spin every single flat, one-dimensional game as open-ended with deep characters and stories. Great stuff.