Featured Article: Objection! A Look at Far Cry 2 Creative Director Clint Hocking’s Critique of BioShock

Objection! A Look at Far Cry 2 Creative Director Clint Hocking’s Critique of BioShock

N’Gai Croal is quickly becoming the same to games as Ebert is to movies.  In one of his latest posts, he articulates a very mature rebuttal to an already mature analysis of Bioshock.  I agree with N’Gai Croal in that I don’t feel Bioshock’s fabricated narrative is an insult to the player, though I definitely won’t deny feeling the ludic/narrative tension to which Hocking refers.  Both parties make interesting analyses of the work, and both raise valid points.  Give the debate a read and mull it over for yourself.  With Croal’s elegant writing, I imagine it won’t be long before my “Featured Articles” exclusively become “Featured Croalisms”.