Tuesday evening I saw the game Dark Sector at a D3 preview event. The game pleasantly surprised me with both its technical achievements and some neat little gameplay features that showed that at least the team was trying to do something new with the action genre. But what impressed me most was how much it looked like Resident Evil 4.

It hadn't really occured to me until that night how influential RE4 was - is, I should say, for it continues to be so; the blockbuster title of the this year is an ardent homage to RE4. By contrast the other big fancy game, Resistance: Fall of Man looks... almost primitive. What's new in Resistance? Nothing. We feel like we've seen it all before.

Is it just me or are we experiencing FPS fatigue? Of course, Halo 3 might still change all that. But until it comes out, I have to say that FPSs are looking just a little bit old-fashioned.