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It started as a way to plump their feathers: They'd work out how to crack an encryption, then add their own splash screens or animated introductions to pirated versions to call attention to their handiwork. Hackers had been recording and playing back game footage since the 1980s. Over time, tinkering with ways to play Quake led them to built-in tools that let players capture gameplay and show off demo reels to friends. They were just a bunch of Quake addicts who aspired to make games, and who liked dreaming up new ways to play their favorite game exponentially more fun than they liked going to class.

Van Sickler and his buddies didn't take their gaming too seriously at first. "I think we played against Clan Dong, not sure though-but I do remember we got our ass beat in front of John Carmack himself.

"I remember playing a sort of exhibition match on id Software's own Quake server, with the gods of id watching us play," van Sickler recalled. The Rangers prevailed so often and so decisively that Quake's creators, the crew at id Software, invariably took notice. "Yes, we were LPBs and proud of it," he said, proudly labeling his clan low-ping bastards. Think of van Sickler and his cohorts as Han Solo: they always shot first. Faster connections meant lower ping rates, translating to their networks sending and receiving data at lightning speeds. Playing over T-1 connections gave the Rangers an advantage. "We were fairly competitive since a lot of us cheated by being in college and having access to university T-1 lines," recalled van Sickler, who played under the online handle 'Unknown Soldier.' Based in far-flung countries, they ran roughshod over Quake's then-nascent online scene every time they convened in the game to pincushion foes with nails and ride rockets to victory. Van Sickler and half a dozen of his friends belonged to a clan known as the Rangers. Like many teens and college students who acquired their gaming legs during the golden age of first-person shooters, van Sickler divided 1996 unevenly between pursuing higher education and blasting opponents into bloody gibs in high-octane bouts of Quake. Splice is a highly absorbing,engaging and even thrilling sci-fi flick which packs a good punch and carries a rare originality through it's story and screenplay.I could have given it an 8 or a 9 but for the casting.I still give it a decent 7/10.Matthew van Sickler is a special kind of bastard, and he's the first to admit it. Nice guy look all through the film but still impresses and I still feel that the role of adrein brody's brother in the film could have been given more screen time to add that moral edge to the movie.

Sarah Polley was anything but impressive in her role,she lacked that energy or enthusiasm of a rogue scientist and was mostly irritating,Adrien Brody did'nt look like a circumspect rogue-scientist,in fact he had that Mr. Well ,the reason why I am not giving it an 8 or a 9 is mainly because of the casting. When I was seeing this movie I kinda had that perpetual deja vu maybe because it gave me that lurch in the stomach,that kind of feeling you had when you saw classics like "The Fly". My heart tells me to tell you more about the unexpected twists and turns the story takes but I just don't wanna spoil the thrills which I experienced and trust me it's something like never before. The plot revolves around two scientists,a couple,with a taste for doing the extraordinary and finally go for it when the try to splice human with animal DNA against the orders of their superiors which proves a touch costly when the result turns out to be an animal-human hybrid which looks all but friendly,initially it turns out to be friendly but as it grows.things change. Well,I was amazed to be honest,literally amazed when I saw the trailer because it's been a while since I saw a movie made on the same lines as the cronenberg classics.The "man creates rare specimen-turned frankenstein" type of films was widely used in the 70's and most importantly the 80's and I kinda liked that category of sci-fi thrillers so it took me almost 8 months till I finally got my hands on it and thought I was gonna see a typical sci-fi thriller which takes you all the way,but I did'nt see what I expected.