| Naum said: Say what???? MKWii NOT a racing game Metroid Prime NOT a FPS?? what the hell are you smoking?? really??
Now I have heard(read) everything. |
His assessment that Metroid Prime is not a First Person Shooter is actually fair being that Retro and Miyamoto both claimed that it was supposed to be a First Person Adventure game when it was new; in a similar fashion it is fair to call Battalion Wars a battlefield Real Time Strategy game because the RTS elements seem to be the primary focus of the game.
His defence of his claim that Mario Kart not being a racing game (essentially) eliminates games like Extreme-G, F-Zero, Wipeout, Tony Hawks Downhill Jam, and 1080 Snowboarding (as well as everything that is not a automobile racing sim) from being a racing game ... Personally, I aways assumed that the 'Racing' element in a game made it a 'Racing' game; I guess it turns out that you have to be able to shift gears in order for it to be a racing game (I feel sorry for anyone who wants racing elements in an olympics game because speed skaters and runners don't have gears).
