[games_access] Re-mission

[Barrie Ellis]

From:
http://gadgetshow.five.tv/jsp/5gsmain.jsp?lnk=601&featureid=172&description=A%20game%20a%20day


"Re-Mission, funded by the wife of that very rich eBay chappy is aimed at 
kids and teenagers with cancer. The player has a series of twenty missions 
that they have to conquer as a character called Roxxi, a nano-bot who enters 
the body and zaps cancer cells. The game has all the action and graphics 
that you'd find in a normal shoot-em-up as well as crucial information for 
the kids, like how to deal with the side effects of medication, the 
importance of taking medicine and so on. And this isn't some flash web-based 
affair, costing $4 million and over two years development, Hope Lab, the 
company behind the game have tested it on young cancer sufferers all over 
America and found that 'children who played the game were more likely to 
take their medicines and keep up with chemotherapy. As a result, they had a 
much better survival rate.'

You can try re-mission for yourself at www.re-mission.net . It comes on CD 
or DVD and is available free to young people with cancer or for a donation 
of $20 to anyone else."