Shepard confronts the behind-the-scenes puppeteer “Elusive Man” who blends the habit of Cigarette Smoking Man from The X-Files with the look of Alec Baldwin in 30 Rock — and the voice of President Bartlet from The West Wing.
In film or literature, the creation of acclaimed work is sometimes attached to a personal event or reaction. “That doesn’t show up often in game development bios,” says one dev. Finding that “why” might save games from a “cultural ghetto”.
Of the major game-of-the-year awards given out each year, no sports title has ever taken top overall honours. And yet five years later, there is one still talked about in ways that year’s winners are not.
Modern Warfare 2′s release was the big news everyone could see coming; a bloodbath at Electronic Arts, and GameStop deliberately breaking a major street date, was not. Huge developments marked an unusually newsy week, even for this time of year.