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Bryan-Mitchell Young aka jccalhoun


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Still working on the screenplay review. It's already getting longish so i may see what i can do to trim it up.
i bought the Aliens versus predator 2 expansion pack off the clearence rack and am finding it mildly entertaining. I'm 2/3 through it. played the human and the predator parts. I realized that really, the predator doesn't need to be in this series. the human section made me jump a couple of times, but in both this and in one and two, i found teh predator's weapons to be very infuriating. i want to shoot things darn it! Oh and by the way the first AvP from Rebellion was head and shoulders better than the sequel from monolith. if you don't agree you're wrong. sorry. no really. you are. really.
Looking forward to teh matrix sequel. will probably buy the game. I'm assuming that the x-box version will have better controls than the pc one, but not sure. I really wish that there were more reviews of cross platform games that coverd teh differences between things like visuals and controls on various platforms. I feel like i should buy splinter cell, but wich format pc or x-box? I don't really care about the "extra" content and I am, again, assuming that since it started on a consol it plays better on one.
I graduate officially from Bowling green friday, so i'm looking forward to that. honstly though looking more forward to only working one day this week!
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First-Person Shooters Aren't Like Movies and That is a Good Thing --A paper about why Shooters aren't like films and how comparisons to them do a disservice to what Shooters are.

That paper was presented at the 2002 PCA under the title "More Than Moving Pictures: Developing New Criteria For Designing and Critiquing Computer Games. The presentation version can be found here. The handout I distributed can be found here.

Identification in First-Person Shooters

Flow in Multi-player FPS gaming (.rtf file)

my reviews

here are a couple of reviews I wrote for joystick101.org

Mark J. P. Wolf's The Medium of the Video Game.
Arthur Asa Bergers Video Games: A Popular Culture Phenomenon.