Armed with the tastiest treats and most tempting toys, you can expect sniffing and
circling, approaching and walking away, a kind of ritual dance
repeated again and again as each takes the other's measure.
Although the last decade and a half has produced some novel takes on the genre like Half - Life and Bioshock, by and large the modern shooting game remains locked in a Live, Die,
Repeat purgatory where heavily
armed, square - jawed white men and indistinct armored figures
circle each other in endless, contrived death spirals that always claim to be different, but are always the same.