Video Games for the Uninitiated

British Literature, Internet Goodness. Tue, Feb 17th, 2009 at 4:40 pm

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These links have been bouncing around my bookmark folders for a while, so I thought I’d share.

One Response to “Video Games for the Uninitiated”

  1. Wesley says:

    I know that this post is pretty old, but you should take a look at Bioshock if you haven’t:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcZgcy9lbUU&feature=related
    This is one of those games that redefines a genre, and what we consider art. From Wikipedia, “Set in an alternate history 1960, the game places the player in the role of a plane crash survivor named Jack, who must explore the underwater city of Rapture, and survive attacks by the mutated beings and mechanical drones that populate it. The game incorporates elements found in role-playing and survival horror games, and is described by the developers and Levine as a “spiritual successor” to their previous titles in the System Shock series.”
    Other than that, all you need to know is that it takes place in 1950s chicago…Underwater