{"id":18,"date":"2003-06-11T16:03:08","date_gmt":"2003-06-11T14:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.dk\/ludologist\/?p=18"},"modified":"2003-06-11T16:03:08","modified_gmt":"2003-06-11T14:03:08","slug":"beauty-in-a-car-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2003\/06\/11\/beauty-in-a-car-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Beauty in a  car crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tried <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burnout2.com\/\">Burnout2<\/a> for the XBox the other day. While technically a racing game, it also contains a <em>crash<\/em> mode,  the object of which is simply to cause maximum mayhem by crashing your car into traffic. There is a strange kind of beauty in the slow motion movement of busses crashing into cars, drivers failing to stop in time and huge pileups of wrecked vehicles:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.acclaim.com\/games\/burnout2\/screenshots\/images\/XBOXscreen11.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Burnout2 crash\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Similarly, there&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kinematic.org\/911screenshots.html\">9-11 simulator<\/a> coming out <em>[link now broken apparently]<\/em>. Gonzalo Frasca is quite sceptical because he would have preferred it to be <a href= \"http:\/\/ludology.org\/article.php?story=20030610182010869\" >about economics in the Middle East<\/a>, but I think Burnout 2 and this simulator are both about facing something terrible not by watching someone else go through it as in a movie, but experiencing it in the sort-of-first-hand mode that is called a game.<br \/>\nThe flying arcs of crashing cars are fascinating stuff because we worry about road accidents but seldomly see them as they happen. Likewise, I am pretty sure that most people tried imagining how they would have escaped from the WTC. In that perspective games as well as storytelling can be about facing and surviving death &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>P.S. Videos of Burnout2 crashes <a href= \"http:\/\/www.acclaim.com\/games\/burnout2\/crashes\/index.html\" >here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tried Burnout2 for the XBox the other day. While technically a racing game, it also contains a crash mode, the object of which is simply to cause maximum mayhem by crashing your car into traffic. There is a strange kind of beauty in the slow motion movement of busses crashing into cars, drivers failing to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2003\/06\/11\/beauty-in-a-car-crash\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Beauty in a  car crash&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}