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The Outer Limits

There is another world that exists just behind our own, invisible unless you know how to look. This promise is right at the heart of spy fiction, and indeed of both varieties of AR games, those for which the ‘A’ stands for ‘augmented’ and also ‘alternate’. If you imagine a Venn diagram of all three, at the centre is where you’ll find 007: Shadow Of Spectre, the latest addition to HiddenCity’s roster of what it calls ‘realworld adventure games’.

Which is a longwindedpart of the game. We’ve just spent the past five minutes eavesdropping on a total innocent.

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