Spielbergs with a joystick
Instead of simply cruising the distant reaches of other worlds in search of alien targets, Red Vs. Blue zeroes in on the small gangs of soldiers and gets into their heads. "This is what happens when the game's off, basically," said Mike `Burnie' Burns, 31, one of the Red Vs. Blue's creators. "They're chatting away, spending their idle time like the rest of us do, just passing the day away." And so they doTonight I'll be discussing LPattern Recognition with my literature class... that book centers around the underground cult phenomenon of a strange film being released on the Internet as anonymous clips.This article also includes a reference to "My Trip to Liberty City," by new media artist Jim Munroe.-- gossiping, arguing, strategizing and generally wondering what the heck they're doing out here, in the middle of nowhere, fighting blue guys or red guys for no apparent reason. The comedy, absurdist, military, and oddly bureaucratic, was compared by one critic to the plays of Samuel Beckett. --Spielbergs with a joystick (Toronto Star)
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