Gaming again?

Journey (web image)

Once upon a time, Ben was an avid gamer who won a trip to play competitively in the US. After that, his interest in games diminished to absolute zero for a couple of years. Lately he's been watching Starcraft streams and marvelling at the strategies used by high-level players in fast-moving and lucrative competitions. In addition, we're still watching DVDs and our viewing has recently been enhanced by the purchase of a Blu Ray player that happens to be contained within a Playstation PS3. The return to gaming is somewhat tentative and the first-person perspective of games like Portal are disorientating, even though Portal does seem to be a very interesting game. One game that impresses the most-disinterested of gamers (that's me) is Journey. Its images are beautifully cinematographic and the music, sounds and effects are almost spell-binding. About twenty minutes of play is the current comfort limit and that's more than enough time to get from one save-point to the next. Progressing gradually through the levels and another boundary slowly crumbles.