Nice review! It's funny you mention tooling around in a shopping mall after hours. Besides various movies that have done that, the hit "Dead Rising" from Capcom for the Xbox 360 makes a game of it, allowing the third person protagonist (the player) to tool about in a mall and make use of just about any item he sees, be it in the mall proper (plants) or in the individual stores (clothing, etc.). As we get more and more horsepower in our hard, it will be interesting to see how more games exploit this "playground" type of option. It would certainly blow the world of GAGs open if that type of environmental interaction were allowed. Imagine if the player could make clever use of just about anything in the environment to solve puzzles a wide variety of ways. There would have to be logic behind each item (a la The Sims) and some heavy duty interaction programming, but I bet it could be done...
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Bill Loguidice, Managing Director
Armchair Arcade, Inc.
(A PC Magazine Top 100 Website)
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*************************** Bill Loguidice, Managing Director
Armchair Arcade, Inc.
Nice review! It's funny you mention tooling around in a shopping mall after hours. Besides various movies that have done that, the hit "Dead Rising" from Capcom for the Xbox 360 makes a game of it, allowing the third person protagonist (the player) to tool about in a mall and make use of just about any item he sees, be it in the mall proper (plants) or in the individual stores (clothing, etc.). As we get more and more horsepower in our hard, it will be interesting to see how more games exploit this "playground" type of option. It would certainly blow the world of GAGs open if that type of environmental interaction were allowed. Imagine if the player could make clever use of just about anything in the environment to solve puzzles a wide variety of ways. There would have to be logic behind each item (a la The Sims) and some heavy duty interaction programming, but I bet it could be done...
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Bill Loguidice, Managing Director
Armchair Arcade, Inc.
(A PC Magazine Top 100 Website)
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Bill Loguidice, Managing Director
Armchair Arcade, Inc.