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Ever since then, steampunk has been bubbling under: in role-playing games and anime, video games like Myst and Thief and comic books like Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Look at the dirigibles and clockwork mechanisms in Philip Pullman's alt-Victorian The Golden Compass. Recall the steam-driven, Kenneth Branagh--piloted arachnid colossus in Will Smith's Wild Wild West...
...crucifix. The images flash by in fractions of a second. A casual viewer would not have noticed them at all. Either way, it works. You can sit back and enjoy the story, or you can play it, as if it were an adventure-puzzle game like Dungeons & Dragons or Myst...
...Myst is released. People start to wonder, Are video games...
...first time Marc Laidlaw played Doom it made him sick. It was not the violence; it was motion sickness--the game was so intense and immersive it actually messed with his inner ear. He immediately switched to the gentle, atmospheric adventure game Myst and developed another ailment: he became addicted. "I pretty much didn't get up from the computer for two days," he remembers...
...will breathtaking scenery and an ongoing family saga sell to today's twitch-happy gamers? Genevieve Lord, producer of Myst IV, thinks gamers will like the change of pace. "In libraries and video stores, you have variety, so why not in video games?" she asks. Whereas Doom is like an action movie, Myst is more of a drama. The appeal is subtler, but that doesn't mean it should be doomed. --By Anita Hamilton