Today's videogames are in the main*, poor, shallow, sequelitis ridden, short-range radar rip-offs which, had it not been for the fact that you're expected to pay full whack for them, would be relegated to the same duff, avoid at your peril, category as straight-to-video movies starring the likes of Steven Segal and Jean-Claude Van Damme.
My only theory is that there's such a large market for videogames these days, populated by until-recently-luddite laggards and four year old boys - i.e. people who have little experience with which to adequately judge the merits of F1 2003, for instance, that the games developers can produce any old tat safe in the knowledge that there's another fresh intake of new recruit customers waiting round the corner who never had the misfortune of playing the dreadful Pizza Tycoon 8 or Command & Conquer 14, and this from an industry that for years complained about how piracy was killing it. It seems to be all about $$$'s these days, and forget the quality, just take a 20 year old game and give it some nice new graphics, they'll never know...
Frankly, it's a shit state of affairs, and one that sickens the stomach of this once avid gamer who pressed his first fire button some twenty-six years ago at the age of eight.
Exempt from my glare of death are : GTA Vice City and....actually that's it for me.
My only theory is that there's such a large market for videogames these days, populated by until-recently-luddite laggards and four year old boys - i.e. people who have little experience with which to adequately judge the merits of F1 2003, for instance, that the games developers can produce any old tat safe in the knowledge that there's another fresh intake of new recruit customers waiting round the corner who never had the misfortune of playing the dreadful Pizza Tycoon 8 or Command & Conquer 14, and this from an industry that for years complained about how piracy was killing it. It seems to be all about $$$'s these days, and forget the quality, just take a 20 year old game and give it some nice new graphics, they'll never know...
Frankly, it's a shit state of affairs, and one that sickens the stomach of this once avid gamer who pressed his first fire button some twenty-six years ago at the age of eight.
Exempt from my glare of death are : GTA Vice City and....actually that's it for me.