It does get a little saccharine here and there, and you may suffer from sugar overload, but it's a nice change of pace from the usual bang, bang, shoot'em up summer fare.
Indeed, while flashy, shoot 'em up adventures such as "Halo 3" require years of development time and enormous budgets, many of the developers at the show were more excited about Web sites such as Kongregate, which encourage users to build much less ambitious games.
"I didn't want to do a film that could be lumped into the black hip- hop-shoot-em-up-gangster-drug movie, " Lee says.
Young gamers looking for some shoot-em-up escape will probably still hit the theaters.
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The Xbox 360 shoot-em-up took the top game prize at the Game Developers Choice Awards which form part of the week-long GDC show.
The timing for a primed, pumped, itchy-trigger-finger shoot-em-up leaves something to be desired, no doubt, but with Nicolas Cage unaccountably AWOL this January, Arnie has the knucklehead R-rated action field pretty much to himself.
Glossing over the mechanicals of the game, production, budgets and infrastructure, what jumped out was the values he assigned to the making of the popular shoot-em-up game: attitude and passion for the game were topped the list.
It's not clear if another company has the shoot-'em-up computer game rights, or the merchandising of Craig Whyte cuddly toys.
Whether shoot-'em-up video games can incite violence has been a long-running debate among the public as well as in clinical psychology.
The graphics on display during the 17 minutes of footage running on a PC were more photorealistic than previous games in the popular military shoot-'em-up series, hinting at what's to come on Sony's PlayStation 4 and Microsoft's rumored Xbox successor.
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