I don't own an x-box 360 I probably won't own one for a little while yet. But I have had the chance to experiance the 360 and the game that I played for those sweet eight hours at my friend's house was G.R.A.W. I was quite simply blown away when I first saw this beatiful game in action. I mean the character models are through the roof the lighting and attention to detail was absolutely mind bending. And to discover that the game is not only pretty but a hell of a lot of fun to play as well really was great. I only experiance a brief portion of the campaign but it was a lot of fun. Your sqaudmates are competant and the there are many different ways to tackle a mission. The weapon selection isn't too shabby either and did I mention this game looks fantastic enough to make you want to have sex with your tv? All juvenile jokes aside if I had a 360 right now GRAW would have to be in my collection. I wasn't to play GRAW online but I played it with my buddy for about 6 hours straight and what a blast that was. This brings me to my biggest complaint about the game. What is with only having 5 cooperative missions included in the game and then releasing a few more in an online update for 15$! I used to really respect Ubisoft but it is seriosly dwindling after the abomination of GRAW for current gen systems and this ridiculous pricing for a little new content. But all that aside GRAW is a great game and I look forward to playing more 360 games in the future.
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...