More than a Game: The Computer Game as Fictional Form
Barry Atkins
Abstract
This book is dedicated to the study of computer games in terms of the stories they tell and the manner of their telling. It applies practices of reading texts from literary and cultural studies to consider the computer game as an emerging mode of contemporary storytelling. The book contains detailed discussion of narrative and realism in four of the most significant games of the last decade: ‘Tomb Raider’, ‘Half-Life’, ‘Close Combat’, and ‘Sim City’. It recognises the excitement and pleasure that has made the computer game such a massive global phenomenon.
Keywords: computer games, reading texts, global phenomenon, storytelling, narrative, realism, Tomb Raider, Half-Life, Close Combat, Sim City
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2003 | Print ISBN-13: 9780719063640 |
| Published to Manchester Scholarship Online: July 2012 | DOI:10.7228/manchester/9780719063640.001.0001 |
