Sunday, December 04, 2005

The Gamer as Artiste - New York Times

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The Gamer as Artiste

By JOHN LELAND

Published: December 4, 2005



LAST week, I spent several days living - and dying - inside the new Xbox 360 console, with four popular games pegged as particularly cinematic. I entered as a curious novice, less concerned with breaking the games than with exploring the worlds they opened, and the worlds you die in.....

I died as a princess in a green miniskirt, as a space warrior, a World War II soldier named Vasili and a humorless F.B.I. agent tracking a sadistic killer. My deaths, rendered in state-of-the-art detail, were not illustrious or mourned.