Video Games: The Ultimate Combination of 'High Art'

Games are multi-faceted works of art, which include literature, sketches, cinematic elements, and musical compositions. Many of the components necessary to comprise a video game are considered, on their own, 'high art'.

What does this say about video games?

They are an interactive form of art that goes beyond the scope of any classic poem, film or painting. The experience, like other works of art differs between audience members; however, the presence of many forms of art within video games grants the gamer the ability to fully immerse themselves in a world outside their own, while still learning about themselves. The gamer is at a position where he is physically on earth but mentally immersed within a work of art; growing along with the characters as reader would whilst reading a novel, interpreting the art present in the background as viewer examining a painting, cut scenes enhancing the narrative and creating exposition similar to a film through various camera angles, dialogue, and direction, as well as music setting the mood for a boss battle, victory, defeat, even subtle sounds as footsteps to foreshadow oncoming enemies are all vital to the artistic value of video games.

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