Clive Thompson decides to raise hell: “Let us talk openly about how just totally awesome it is to grab a fully loaded railgun in Quake 4 and wade into a mass of gibbering Strogg aliens and kill and kill and kill again, until there are guts on, like, the ceiling.”
And he has a point: “After all, we now live in an age where the pop-culture mainstream has decided that games are fascinating — but only the ‘complex,’ socially nuanced ones.”