On 01/01/14 09:18 AM, marc garrett wrote: > > Channel TWo reviews Rockstar Games’ “Grand Theft Auto V,” released > September 2013 and noted as “the fastest selling entertainment product > in history.” Instead of the well-covered social and political aspects of > the GTA series, this review focuses on the limits of the game landscape > and the artificial life that inhabits it. > > http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/summer-shark-artificial-life-and-ends-game-spaces-rockstar-games-grand-theft-auto-v
Turning away from the desperately over-determined socioeconomic fantasy of Rockstar's gameplay to seek the sublime in encounters with the gameworld's simulated landscape and predatory animal alife is a wonderful act of political refusal and critique. Or possibly it's just that I miss Myst and Riven... _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
