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I’m one of the author’s in the 2022 opdc (didn’t win anything, still trying to bear up under the shame…
cool, looking forward to it!
Thank you for this very interesting collection, and for wrestling with the obviously mixed feelings on this anniversary. And thank…
I can’t remember that moment when I realized that you simultaneously was creative director, lead level designer and script writer…
Category: Game Criticism
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David Jaffe blogged about the review Gamespot gave his newly released PS3 downloadable game Calling All Cars. I have to say that I know exactly how he feels because there was a pretty common consensus that Gamespot always lowballed the scores for Splinter Cell titles. Kasavin gave the original Splinter Cell an 8.6 when the…
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Bad me. I hadn’t heard about this game until I read about it on Patrick’s blog yesterday, where he provides a very eloquent analysis of the game, its strategies, and the statements that those strategies ultimately make. It’s a shame more games are not reviewed or critiqued with such insight. Thanks Patrick. I played the…
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In general I’m not going to bother to review games here. If you want a review of GRAW, go here. What I will do, though, is try to talk a bit (more) about what I learn specifically from specific games that I play. Here I’m gonna talk about what I learned about Camera and HUD…
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The last issue of The Escapist has a pretty good article by Will Hindmarch about enriching the immersive play experience through the use of NPC dialog. The games he draws on for his examples are Thief: The Dark Project (one of my all time favorite games) and my own last game, Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory.…
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This is still an interesting read. But for me it was far simpler than this: The game’s narrative tries to…