By Mila Payton
A growing movement is pushing for Video Games to be classified as an art form, the same as music or movies. A medium for storytelling and cinematics that is on par, and sometimes better, with any Hollywood blockbuster in recent years. While movies have always been a “higher form of art” than games, this line is becoming increasingly blurred. In many ways, Hollywood gave rise to video games (in their modern form).
Without certain films, many genres of video game would not even exist. Without the cinematic, aesthetic and commercial movements that grew from the cinema, video games as they are now would be very different. Understanding these influences is key to understanding video games.
