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A good core loop can salvage an otherwise poor game. If the developers aren’t able to provide a rewarding core loop, one that you’ll want to repeat for hours - if not days or months, in certain cases - everything else is wasted time. The core loop in Gears of War involves running forward, taking cover, returning fire, nailing the active reload sequence, and then running forward again.Įvery game, no matter how complicated or narratively rich, can be boiled down to simple core loops, which means that the entire experience depends on those loops being good - satisfying, even. The core loop in Angry Birds involves pulling back on the catapult, aiming your shot, and watching to see how much of the structure of the level each bird is able to take down. You’ve waited 13 years for a new Half-Life game, so I know you can wait a few paragraphs for me to get into the review.Ī core loop is the thing you do, minute to minute, while playing a video game - the action, or actions, that you repeat throughout the entire experience.
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