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Stuart Black Blasts Modern First-Person Shooters
Anyone remember Black, the Criterion-developed PS2 FPS? Its senior designer, Stuart Black, announced his disdain for the plethora of "cover-based shooters" saturating the market in a recent interview. Black, currently employed by Codemasters as a director of an unannounced shooter, doesn't think much of the state of the genre.
"When a guy hunkers down behind something, you've just got to sit there and wait for him to pop his head up. Pops up, couple of bullets to his head, pops back down again.. and I'm waiting for him to pop back up again? F***ing boring. I can't be bothered hanging around like that," Black told Official Xbox Magazine.
While Black doesn't specifically call out any games, it's pretty obvious what he's talking about when a "couple bullets to the head" aren't dropping his target. I would suggest to the gentleman that playing that way would be a good way to get a chainsaw to the clavicle, but what do I know? Also, there may or may not be several popular, well-regarded games that don't play at all like that.
At the same time, I'd love to have Black prove me wrong and deliver a game that makes current FPSes boring by comparison. Prove me wrong, sir, and I'll eat my crow and like it.
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