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There are career choices, and then there are career swerves that leave you thinking, simply: what on earth possessed you? It is in such a swerve that we find Tom Cruise in 1988, post-Top Gun, and about to hit Cocktail face-first. Imagine the pitch meeting: “Tom, you just became the
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A good story always enriches the experience with any game, but as an interactive medium, it isn’t a necessity. When a given gameplay loop is good enough, players will keep coming back no matter what, even when the narrative makes little to no sense. Mind you, this isn’t to say
