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Is a future of video games actually movies

Are Games Too Much Like Work? [Gamasutra, Sept 4, 2009.]Movies that resemble video games are often panned by film critics, but recently the well known critic Roger Ebert said, about the movie Terminator Salvation, "It gives you all the pleasure of a replica Rolex Datejust Pearlmaster Diamond Ladie's watches video game without the bother of having to play it." (He gave it three stars out of four, quite a bit better than the Metacritic average —

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