GC [URL=http://gameculture.com/2010/02/03/gameculture-exclusive-mark-neveldine-how-gamer-started-gta-movie]recently chatted[/URL] to [B]Mark Neveldine[/B], co-writer and co-director of the movie [I]'Gamer'[/I] which features Gerard Butler as an 'icon' controlled in a video game by 'superstar' gamer Simon Silverton (played by Logan Lerman). The movie also features actor Michael C. Hall as Ken Castle, the evil mastermind behind both games featured in the movie ("Slayers" and "Society") where real people are controlled in the game by other people using a form of nano technology.

It's an interesting concept and one that is a little scary to contemplate. If the technology to do such a thing was available, would you be signing up for a monthly subscription? If you could take a real person and control them in every way, wouldn't it be just a little tempting to try it? And then of course there is the flip side to this - all those people out there willing to let another person have complete control over them in a video game. It does seem just a little too over-the-top but when you think about the advances we are already making with technology, is it really that far-fetched?

As gamers we're always looking for the 'next best thing' - the game that takes things one step further, pushing the boundaries of visual and auditory excellence. We want games that can deliver more reality to our computers or consoles. But after watching [I]Gamer[/I] and having time to think of what the future of video games [I]could[/I] become, I think I'm happier knowing that regardless of how real things may appear to look on my television screen, it's still just a game.

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