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Gamespot added a preview along with screenshots of Irrational Games' adventure game, The Lost:

Irrational Games describes The Lost as an update of the classic novel Dante's Inferno. An update, though, means a lot has changed. For starters, Virgil isn't your guide, and you're obviously no poet. More importantly, though, there's no assurance that you'll escape your journey into the underworld. You'll have to fight tooth and nail and solve lots of horrible puzzles if you plan to make it out in one piece with your daughter in tow. Amanda begins the game as an unspectacular fighter, but you will quickly have to learn how to handle yourself if you hope to last long in hell. You're not totally beholden to Amanda's mortal frame, though. When times are tough, she has supernatural friends to call on for assistance. In the course of your adventures Amanda will be able to assume the form of one of three denizens of hell, Shadow, Light, and Corruption.

The game plays from a top-down perspective and takes place in real time. While the PC game uses a mouse pointer to achieve goals, the PS2 and Dreamcast versions will do away with the mouse pointer and let you control each member of the team directly. As each member of the commando team, you'll move about your environment, interacting with obstacles and items while avoiding enemy units. Each member of the team has specialized abilities and weaponry and can achieve his or her goals through different means. Also, several obstacles require the skills of a certain team member, and this forces you to use the commandos together to successfully complete the mission.

Basically everything else about the control is the same as what one would expect in a 989 Sports GameDay or GameBreaker title. On offense, you can do special moves like spins, jukes, stiff arms, shoulder charges and speed bursts and on defense you can jump, do a swim move left or right and do a forearm shiver or bump a receiver on the line of scrimmage. The game also includes 989 Sports' vaunted Total Control Passing that lets players do things like lead, underthrow, and overthrow their receivers with a great amount of control.

NCAA Final Four 2001 isn't horrible and if you must have a college basketball videogame, it's definitely worth giving a look, if only because of the fact that it's the only one for any next-generation system, but it's far from good. The game suffers from way too many AI and gameplay problems to be something that we could recommend, though, and the lack of key features that have become a staple in sports games, like a Dynasty mode, really hurts its overall value and appeal.