Dragon Age: Origins controls well on a PlayStation 3, BioWare proved to Kotaku yesterday — mouse and keyboard not required. But if you want the classic overhead view seen in this game’s spiritual predecessor, then a mouse is a must. More »
Corvus of Man Bytes Blog has been posting an interesting series over the past month, contemplating issues of the camera in games: they’ve ranged from issues of reliance on gun sight type targeting to ‘chasing third person cinema.’ The last in the series dealing with the problems is on the problematic issue of exactly what the camera is suppose to represent and what it is supposed to do. As he notes, “The central question of these issues seems to be, ‘Is the camera meant to represent our eyes, a camera lens, or a gun sight?’ And the answer, for better or for worse, appears to be a flat ‘Yes.’”:
