[kupoartist]

Yes, congrats to Meryl on her Article (or part 1 of it at least!), it was very interesting

First-Person shooters are also enormous in the US. "Halo", "TimeSplitters", and "Medal of Honor", FPS shooters have been a great success for many years. These games allow the player to be very involved since there is no other "body" you have to control. And Westerners tend to enjoy games where you are responsible for your actions, you are seeing everything through your own eyes, where you are your own person. Some might argue there are more involvement in FPS than RPGs since RPGs are about controlling another character and seeing that character's story play out.

What I find interesting, is just how big FPS games are in Korea, particuarly something like Counter Strike. Starcraft was also monsterously popular over there (they used to televise matches)... As far as I understand, the Online Gaming Community of Korea is bigger even than the US... And they appear to favour more western games. Perhaps this is an active resistance of Japanese culture? (which appears to be intrusive in Korea in the way that American Culture is in the UK...)