Heavy Metal

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Playing Metal Gear, a new video game from Konami, may be so intense it could give one Vietnam-like flashbacks.
Such is the concept of GWhiz!’s new ad campaign, particularly the TV spot, which breaks nationally today on the WB network and on cable.
The 15- and 30-second ads show a twentysomething guy in an alley, talking to himself and simulating sniper attacks. “I snipered a dozen men I launched 100 mortars. It was madness!” he shouts, while passersby look on.

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