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Mar
16

Extreme sports gaming: Will it ever be as good as the real thing?

HD, 3-D, MMORPG: Just how extreme can our sports games be?

If gamers aren’t shooting their way through a horde of toxic vomit spewing aliens, or thrashing air guitar, there is a good chance they are playing sporting games.

Despite there being only one video game in the current all-time top ten (Madden NFL ’07), games firms have long tried to harness interest in extreme sports.

But, even with High Definition (HD) picture quality, Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games (MMORPG’s) and the inevitable arrival of 3-D, are we really ever going to get close to the ‘real’ experience? read more