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Alt-Tab: What matters most?

Posted Oct 2nd 2008 3:00PM by Kyle Horner
Filed under: Features, Opinion

When it comes to a particularly good game, what matters most? I'm not talking about the old checklist videogame reviewers used to rely on -- and often still do -- such as music, graphics, presentation, etc. What I'm getting at here are the qualities which make a game stand above the rest in our collective minds. I've boiled it down to five particular areas in which I think a game needs to nail down in order to be more than the sum of its parts.

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Fun factor

Accessibility

Genre

Style

Creativity

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