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Submitted by CoregamerUK 519d ago | opinion piece

5 Games that are essentially interactive movies

Adam Smith from Coregamer: Have you ever sat down to excited to play a game and when it's all unwrapped and spinning in your disc tray for the first time, you find yourself watching more often than actually playing? In the movie industry, features increasingly seem to shy on story telling and rely more on attracting viewers by throwing hours of special effects in the mix. In the gaming world cut-scenes are slowly taking over in the same way. There was once a time when games were 100% gameplay, but nowadays actual playing time seems to be limited more and more as cut-scenes and button-prompting-interactive-s egments take hold of a lot of current generation titles. Variety is great, sure. But sometimes us gamers just want to play!

Here's five of the top offenders, when it comes to parting you with your the console controller for long periods at a time: (PC, PS3, Xbox 360)

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