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My biggest problem with AI and physics is that we have yet to really see these elements WOW us. sure they are there but lately I have yet to say, "wow, it's like he's thinking!" Honestly the most interesting things I've seen AI do in a game are all old like, Turok(the first one), MDK, and Seaman. For example in Turok I wanted to kill my charachter off and start the board over so this velociraptor(sp?) comes over and starts to chomp at me, then this human bad guy came over to hit me, as soon as he struck me once, the velociraptor turned to him all pissed off, like he was trying to steal his kill. Then attacked and killed him before coming back to me. I was blown away by that. It's like the world had other goals than killing me. In seaman he asks you alot of questions, and eventually he asked for my father's birthday(he asked for mine in the begining of the game) and commented, "wow, your just a day apart form you father's." I was amazed that he was programmed to take in such factors, and by many other things he's said. Don't get me wrong I know the AI is more advanced now but it don't impress me or make the game more fun, it's stuff like, "Hey look, he heard my gun go off so now he's hiding behind crates." Thanks to AI I now have to hide in a corner of every room in every shooter and pick guys off aiming at their one exposed body part. I want AI to factor in some of the crazy things I've done through the game and draw attention to it. Like during a gun battle the bad guy might say, "I saw what you did to those other guys, you pumped more then 10 bullets in each of them you sick animal!"(perhaps factoring in my kills earlier in the board.) Or perhaps killing a particular guy may set another charachter in a revenge like anger mode, "You low life that was my friend!" That kind of behaviour could throw you for a loop, because clearly not everyone will act smart decisive and cool as people are getting killed around them. Plus it adds interesting consequences. And for physics they have the ability to simply blow our minds but so far this new generation is yet to push it. I'm hoping that will change soon as Star Wars: Unleashed is doing marvelous things. I just hope again that these gameplay aspects draw attention to themselves, so that we can get that wow factor going again.