A future form of entertainment

Have you ever watched a movie and wanted to be there with them or even be the main character? Huge domestic screens and surround sound suggest people really want to be inside the movie. What about those who want to make decisions which affect the course of the story? The eternal "What if?" question.

I believe a new entertainment form rose from that question, mainly as its answer. It's not a totally new thing but it is being perfected to a point it's worth discussing. It is a mix between movies and videogames. I am not talking about those damn movie adaptations to games or games adapted to movies. Just forget those for a while.

This new form of entertainment is what can allow you to have a movie storyline being told while giving you just enough freedom to feel like you're playing a game. There are a few examples of movie-like scripts that spawned games instead of movies keeping the storyline, like "James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing" or "John Woo's Stranglehold".

It's not going to threaten movies or games, it's just a "new" form of entertainment that has possibilities. In my opinion the best "cinematic game"so far is "Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater". Great storiy, great characters, great acting and great soundtrack. It's like playing a really good movie. In fact it's done in such a cinematic way that in the special edition of the game there's a whole disk with all the cutscenes and other parts captured in video so the player can watch it as if it were a movie.