Beginning of the AdventureHere we can see that this is art, it is hard to deny that this beautiful watercolour painting is art. This is how most video games start, as art. The question now is whether they continue to be art along the way. Anyways, after all of the concept art is finished, the story is also written. Many people describe written works as art. Now, it is true that many video games don't have a story, the point is to blow the heads off of incoming aliens. But if we look closely, an increasing number of video games have the story as a central part of the game. For example, let's look an Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. This game revolves around the story, as Solid Snake gets old and his body starts to wear down. (The entire story is somewhat complicated, and would take an entire post to describe, so I suggest looking it up online.) In fact, to thoroughly tell the story, the game contained two full hours of video. In fact, the game could arguably be made into a movie using mainly videos on the blu-ray. This is another example of video games as art.
Back to concept art. This here is concept art for MGS4:
Old Snake This is also art. So MGS4 started as art, and the story is art. But does the final output qualify as art? Here are a few screens of the final result:
A Metal Gear
A Salute to the Fallen
Battlezone Barricade
These shots are beautiful. The second picture looks like a real photograph. It's a shame that I cant show these in full 1080i HD, but they look amazing. This is art.
Although many do not believe that video games are art, some definitly are, such as MGS4. The fact that producers are beginning to make their video games art is comforting, knowing that video games are more than shooting everything that moves.
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