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FOV 90

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Welcome to FOV 90, an FPS column from staff writer Morgan Park. Every other week, I cover topics relevant to first-person shooter enjoyers, spanning everything from multiplayer and singleplayer to the old and the new.

It only took 90 minutes with S&box (pronounced "sandbox") to learn what many closed beta users have known about it for years: this is, tragically, not Garry's Mod 2.

Yes it has a map editor and, yes, you can still weld together strange vehicles in a sandbox mode. But in S&box, those foundational features of Gmod—the hacked-together toolset that allowed hobbyist modders to remix Valve's work into unexpected delights—are minor bullet points.

Garry Newman's Facepunch calls S&box the "spiritual successor" to Gmod, but if that spirit is present, I've yet to encounter it. None of the qualities that made Gmod an amazing, lasting anomaly of PC gaming are relevant to what Facepunch has actually made here: Roblox.…