More than a game : : the computer game as fictional form / / Barry Atkins.

• VerfasserIn: Atkins, Barry.
• Place / Publishing House: Manchester : : Manchester University Press,, 2003.; Manchester, UK : : Manchester University Press,, [2018]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2003; 2018
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource ([vi], 170 pages) :; digital file(s).
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.; First published: 2003.

There is little doubt that computer and video games occupy a significant place in contemporary popular culture. Taking its cue from practices of reading texts in literary and cultural studies, this text considers the computer game as an emerging mode of contemporary storytelling.

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements
• 1. The computer game as fictional form
• 2. Fantastically real: reading Tomb Raider
• 3. Gritty realism: reading Half-Life
• 4. Replaying history: reading Close Combat
• 5. Managing the real: reading SimCity
• 6. More than a game?
• Glossary of game-specific terms
• Bibliography
• Index.