Posts Tagged action

Games, Art, and Bastion: Getting It Wrong and Loving It Anyway

By • Sep 9th, 2011 • Category: playing

Games are the only art form where we can make a choice in the present, and feel for ourselves that very next moment where it becomes painfully clear we’ve made a terrible mistake. That’s something special. And Bastion gets it especially right.


Choosing Your Own Adventure: Uncharted, Assassin’s Creed, and The Da Vinci Code

By • Feb 9th, 2010 • Category: playing

The troubling implications of Uncharted 2’s distaste for genuine problem-solving, as compared to Assassin’s Creed II and The Da Vinci Code.


Modern Warfare 2: The Most Right-Wing Game of the Decade

By • Dec 3rd, 2009 • Category: playing

What Modern Warfare 2 does as a game makes it a must-buy. But what it says, and how it says it, is a much more fascinating question.