COMPANY

 USA:                               EUROPE:

 Psygnosis Ltd.                     Psygnosis Ltd.
 675 Massachusetts Ave.             South Harrington Building
 Cambridge, MA 01239                Sefton Street, Liverpool L3 4BQ
 USA                                United Kingdom
 Order Line:  (800)438-7794         Tel: +44 51 709 5755
 Tech Support:(617)497-7794

AUTHOR

 A DMA Design Production            DMA Design
 by Scott Johnston                  Discovery House
                                    Dundee Technology Park
                                    Dundee, Scotland
                                    DD1 1TY
                                    Fax: 0382 562333

DESCRIPTION                         PLOT SUMMARY

Hired Guns is a truly unique role   From the time he was 'released'
playing/adventure game.  Apart      from military service - five 
from sensational graphics and     H years and an entire star system
outstanding playability, it         away - Rorian Deevergh has 
features a multi-player interface I amassed a group of people, some
which allows four players to act    of whom he can even call friends,
independently on the same machine R who are collectively hunted by the
at once!                            authorities.
                                  E                                
Includes an online inventory        Killing for a price and without
encyclopedia, auto-mapping, over  D recourse was a job in which they
1.2 Megabytes of incredible         all excelled.  Payment in rare
soundtracks, and more (see the      metals.  No questions. If you
FEATURES list below).               live, that's your business.
                                  G                                   
This is a game that needs to be     On the surface, this was just a
experienced.  We encourage you to U normal job.  The only thing that
try our free demo, which includes   aroused curiosity was the
its own fully playable mini-      N destination.  A backwater planet
adventure offering hours of         called Graveyard.  The name
gameplay in itself (see the DEMO  S aroused some faint disturbance in
information below).                 Rorian's memory.  But what the 
                                    hell, so did most names he heard
                                    nowadays. 

FEATURES

 o Four first-person perspective 3D views on screen
 o Up to four independent players on one machine
 o True 3D levels (the campaign spans 1.7 million cubic meters)
 o Auto-mapping via the Guild VII Digital Terrain Processor
 o Transparent water effect
 o On-line encyclopedia
 o Hard disk installation
     Instantly switch between Hired Guns & Workbench
 o Full use of available memory
 o Customizable graphics
     Edit the character graphics to your liking -
     You can even put yourself in the game!
 o Choose from a selection of 12 characters
 o 1.2 Megabytes of original music and sound effects
 o Various environments (outdoors, caves, hi-tech, tombs, etc.)
 o At least 80 hours of playing time in the campaign game
 o An extra 20 stand-alone action levels
 o 24 types of enemy
 o 8 Megabytes of data packed onto 5 disks
 o Comprehensive literature

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

 o Any Amiga model with at least 1MB RAM (any configuration).
 o Users with 1MB CHIP RAM and an additional 512K of other 
   memory will experience greatly enhanced sound effects.
 o Hard drive operation requires 1.5 MB RAM (1 MB CHIP memory).

PRICE & DISTRIBUTABILITY

 $59.99 US Suggested Retail Price
 The full game is available from Amiga dealers worldwide.  
 Hired Guns can also be ordered directly from Psygnosis.     

 Hired Guns is a commercial product 
 Copyright 1993 Psygnosis, Ltd.


FREELY-DISTRIBUTABLE DEMO AVAILABLE

 A fully playable demo of Hired Guns is currently available on 
 ftp.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4) and will be appearing shortly on 
 all Aminet sites.
	
 DIRECTORY AND FILE NAME

 pub/aminet/game/demo/HiredGunsDemo.dms 

 DEMO DISTRIBUTABILITY

 The Hired Guns Demo is Copyright 1991-1993 DMA Design and 
 may be freely distributed, provided that the contents of the 
 archive are not modified in any way.


 This announcement by:

 Daniel Robbins,               psygtech@psygnosis.com
 Tech Support Representative
 & Telecommunications Liason
 for Psygnosis (US office)