IN the movies

Video games have come a long way. I was there for the Atari, which was for all intents and purposes, the first commercially successful home console system. I watched the rise and fall of Sega, swore my allegiance to Nintendo, cursed the 3D0, scoffed at Sony, and jumped on the Microsoft bandwagon. I never really appreciated how far games have come until now. I'm currently playing Dead Space 2, and its terrifying. What's most appealing about it, though, is that the the player feels like they are playing a movie. I literally feel like I'm on the set of event Horizon, and Laurence Fishburne is going to call "line!" at any second. I never thought video games would become this advanced. I used to think that capturing real actors portraying video games characters (as seen in Sega CD's Sewer Shark, for example) was the pinnacle of video game achievement. Now, I've witnessed games with true cinematic flow: God of War, Uncharted, and Dead Space are just a few of the franchises that have captured these moments. Its truly inspiring to be IN the movies.