More than a Game The Computer Game as Fictional Form
, by Atkins, BarryNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780719063657 | 0719063655
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 5/8/2003
Taking its cue from practices of reading texts in literary and cultural studies, this book considers the computer game as a new and emerging mode of contemporary storytelling. In a carefully organized study, Barry Atkins discusses questions of narrative and realism in four of the most significant games of the last decade: Tomb Raider, Half-Life, Close Combat and SimCity. This is a work for both the student of contemporary culture and those game-players who are interested in how computer games tell their stories.