Much has been made of the fact that games are not the same as movies. Despite any apparent similarities, they have different goals; they work different ways. They cannot be evaluated using the same criteria.
(Thus the indignation over Roger Ebert’s game-related comments. Electronic gaming’s would-be defenders somehow combine smug disdain with a curious undercurrent of desperation in their rejection of Ebert’s scorn. Yeah, sure, Ebert doesn’t “know” games. Nor need he: the guy’s job is to know movies, and he’s spectacular at it, a necessary consequence of which is that he’ll never see gaming except in terms of how it fails to live up to the standards of cinema. Stop wasting his time and ours with litanies of refutations and counter-examples.)