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Far Cry 3 And The Stranger In A Strange Land I’ve just this minute finished the singleplayer campaign for Modern Warfare 3. It leaves a very bitter taste at its climax. But perhaps not the same bitter taste that flavours it throughout. It is an enormously high-achieving action FPS, on a scale like nothing before it, turned to 11. And it’s a bloodthirsty, bombastic and clumsy un-game, with a core of nastiness.
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You read about the demonstration of Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood’s single player I saw at Gamescom, now see the demonstration for yourself.
Jason Rohrer’s ‘Game Design Sketchbook’ has an interesting meditation up on the nature of single player game mechanics — a lot of the achingly simple, but endlessly challenging board games that Rohrer points to require a minimum of two players. Rohrer’s question is how to make a single player game that doesn’t rely on typical mechanics to provide depth and challenge? Is it possible to have a game with the (gameplay) depth of go without falling back on AI or randomness or ‘physical’ contests? Well, in short, no:
