Kira will be two years old on 1-01-11. Here she is warming up for her birthday presents. My nephew got an Xbox and the new Call of Duty Black Ops game from Activision. Kira thinks the box is brilliant.
Black Ops has so far smashed sales records, selling more than 7 million copies in 24 hours. According to the WSJ, $360 million in one day between the U.S. and U.K. You can be sure that Hollywood is well aware of this trend. So if you're a writer, it's time to get your game on. I'm not into shooter games but yesterday it was on the big screen all day in single player and multi-player form. The graphics are amazing and you can playback your battles from any angle. You really do feel like you've stepped into a movie.
It helps to have the Rolling Stones vintage songs "Gimme Shelter" and "Sympathy for the Devil" playing in the background. The score (by Sean Murray) is also far better than anything I've ever heard for a shooter game. That pops this up several notches on the coolness meter in my book. The voice work is no less elegant with Ed Harris, Gary Oldman and Ice Cube dubbing the vocal tracks. And it turns out that David S. Goyer (whose screenplay credits include Ghost Rider, Blade, Batman Begins and the new Superman) is/was a writing consultant. Add all this together and there can be little doubt that gaming is here to stay and it's using major artistic talent.
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