Comments on: Sitrep: To Be, Or Not To Be, Jason Statham

By: rsoblivion

rsoblivion — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 11:41:00 +0000

Best film with Jason Statham so far has been Snatch. All the others have failed to use his full potential.

He kinda needs his own Bourne or Unknown as he has the skill for it, just needs the script…

By: lordezekiel

lordezekiel — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 10:04:33 +0000

Jason Statham is awesome.
He is one of this generations best action/thriller stars, along with Liam Neeson!

By: Marius

Marius — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 09:58:22 +0000

“Question: Why do you play shooters?”

I play shooters to act out my fantasies. The only shooter I play is Mass Effect.

By: rsoblivion

rsoblivion — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 07:12:06 +0000

Well to be honest the lines between RPG and FPS are blurring. Eventually there will be a flash point where they will join as the original limitation that separated the genre’s (primarily hardware and software capabilities) is being broken down.

Having a game with the fast and furious gameplay of a lot of modern shooters, plus the ability to actually interact/meet/get to know characters in a gameworld is something that will eventually happen. Like with No One Lives Forever the conversations between the soldiers gave them a human feel even in the dark comedy of that game. You weren’t killing clone number 3million you were killing a dude who possibly had a family and a story of his own.

Bringing that interactivity to the genre and giving the single player as much focus as the multiplayer is something that has been avoided for far too long.

By: arkanis

arkanis — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 05:50:40 +0000

aeolusc: Unfortunately, I’m not really sure how fun it would be to play an FPS where your totally firearm inept character spends a couple of minutes trying to work out how to put ammo back into the gun or other things along those lines. Would be fun to find out though!

I think he's talking more like the "Metal Gear" series, where enemies will kill you if you don't play carefully... Or the "Thief" series. I really enjoyed both series.

By: aeolusc

aeolusc — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 05:31:12 +0000

Unfortunately, I’m not really sure how fun it would be to play an FPS where your totally firearm inept character spends a couple of minutes trying to work out how to put ammo back into the gun or other things along those lines.

Would be fun to find out though!

By: instinx

instinx — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 05:07:46 +0000

As much as i love Jason Statham, this is a good article and i completely agree. There needs to be a better balance between arcadey competitive warfighters and those more ‘linear’ story FPSes

By: gmcleod

gmcleod — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 04:51:32 +0000

Good article. I agree, to an extent but I’m not sure I fully understood what you’re getting at.

The Crysis games are great power fantasies, and I definitely enjoyed playing Warhead as Jason Statham.

I also spent an unreasonable amount of time wondering who the hell Gordon Freeman actually is while playing as him. It’s so strange and yet wonderful that people get so immersed and involved in the Half-Life series because the ambiguity of the protagonist allow the player to absolutely step into his shoes and fully control his actions.