The message for the games industry is clear: you don?t have to have pretensions to art ? because here is a game that could not be more unpretentious in an artistic sense ? for your game to have a serious message. Even the manshooter can be about something, without having to carefully distance itself with irony or hyperbolic absurdity. But crucially there is also scope to do shooters differently on a mechanical level. They do not have to be linear rollercoasters, nor multiplayer menageries. They can be slow. Even contemplative. -