70 years of '1984': Digital dystopia in the world of video games
New Delhi, June 28 -- While Fallout 3 and Mirror's Edge-two popular gaming titles-were released within a month of each other in 2008, both followed different concepts that are now hallmarks in the representation of dystopia in video games. Fallout 3 was a prime example of a "post" city-a region pillaged by war and the extremities of modernization. Mirror's Edge is what a "total city" looks like-a place where all information and data is monitored, everyone is under surveillance and prohibitions strangle a citizen's freedom: all wrapped in the promise of a utopian city....
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