Hey, Jason called it years ago, and now Wired has caught on, too: videogames are serious art. Let’s just treat you to an excerpt from the article:
In preparation for what became Full Throttle, he studied screenwriting, specifically how to structure a story in multiple acts. He drew on cinema in other ways, too. His protagonist, Ben, is, as the misunderstood leader of a leather-clad motorcycle gang, a cartoonish version of the sullen and stoic heroes of Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo and George Miller’s Mad Max.
Want more? Read the whole article, or check out the book it is excerpted from, Bit by Bit: How Video Games Transformed Our World by Andrew Ervin.
I will question if Brütal Legend is Tim’s best game, but no-one asked me, anyway.
Source: Wired