Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine Demo 12/23/04
Indiana Jones is back! Some of my fondest video game memories are playing Raiders of the Lost Ark on the Atari 2600. When the original Tomb Raider came out, one of my first comments was "Why isn't she Indiana Jones?" Well, LucasArts has heard the call and answered it with Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine. This game is, in essence, Tomb Raider. Though the voice in the game is not Harrison Ford, fans of the movies should enjoy being the daring archeologist.
Video games is such a diverse medium that it is somewhat easy to forget that differing opinions, however alien they may be to your own, are welcome for a critical debate. Recently, a forum user named Melaisis posted a rather interesting article titled “Games Are Not Art.” I won’t go into much detail here, but suffice to say, Melaisis gives the theory that due to the inaccessibility of certain games by the general public, games cannot, all things considered, be art in the sense... read more...