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Re: Immersion in Video Games
Old 08-23-2009, 05:32 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by gekko View Post
I agree with you on the cut scenes. I played the campaign of COD4 last night (again), and I really think they did a good job with interactive cut scenes. It wasn't gimmicky, like paused and asked you to press a button. I really like when the helicopter crashed and you needed to crawl out to your death, and when Price slides you the pistol and you need to shoot the dudes. Very well done.
Okay that's a good example of how a cutscene can actually work in favor of a game, but many games don't do it like CoD.

If they do, it relies on QTE which just isn't as cool.
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