When Can I Blow It Up?
Once upon a time a game by the name of Red Faction captured my attention and made me wish more games did things like it. I’m talking about destructable environments. It always bothered me when I shot rockets with huge explosive power, only to see them leave nothing more than a black mark on the still in-tact wall they just slammed into. Games like Half Life allowed me to use a gravity cannon to pick up massive objects; but wouldn’t let me use that same cannon to move a wire fence separating me from my goal. Game after game seems to feature these magic brick walls that can’t be destroyed by any number of rockets or other explosives. The lack of realism is simply infuriating.
