When a bunch of former Burnout leads started work on Lethal VR this summer, they called up the NRA. Not the American branch, who were rather busy at the time buying TV ads for the new president-elect, but the Bisley-based UK governing body of full bore rifle and pistol shooting.
"How exciting are shooting competitions?," they asked the man who answered the phone. "What happens?"
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For those of us who don't know, it turns out to be a tightly controlled experience. It's about lying prone with a rifle and shooting a distant bullseye. It's about waiting for a man stood a very long way away to hold up a flag indicating whether you hit or missed.
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