Caltrops - Dead Trees





	[quote name="Colonel K"][quote]There's a few good natural breakpoints scattered throughout - and the book is composed of three 'books', all of which make EXCELLENT save points (I used them as such). However if your lifestyle affords it, my opinion is that books and games are much better to swallow in one lump. It shows you if the developer/author is doing something cool (Dune, Operation Flashpoint) in which the context/mechanics switches completely in a fairly natural manner, rather than plodding through the same system explored to the point of nausea (Half-Life, Neverwinter Nights). For me, GTA3 and Hitchhiker's Guide (the book) stand nearly alone as systems so diverse that they can be explored almost infinitely - and in which the context switch is controlled by the viewer/reader. [/quote] I think that's why I liked Mafia so much. Couldn't stop playing it first time around, but nothing would drag me through those driving sequences after I'd seen every cutscene and gunfight. As for the Hitchhiker Books, I only re-read that part where Ford shoots the accounting machine. GTA3 had the genius to let you do anything, but my anything became constant drive-by carsurfs. That first time through Mafia, though, was the most entertaining retinal burn I've endured since Grim Fandango. [/quote]