First-person shooters come a dime a dozen, but every once in a while a stroke
of genius will take you to another world, throw you into the thick of battle
and provide you with endless hours of gun-smoking fun. Office favorite Counter-Strike
has been the bread and butter of our gaming lives for quite a while, but amazingly
a new first-person shooter has taken over the GR gaming rig. Electronic Arts
recently sent us a preview build of Medal of Honor: Allied Assault and
we haven't been able to put it down since.
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...