Article: What's in a game, you ask? More than you think; Meet the 'Monitor'video game critic

A few weeks ago, Ben Adamski was into boxing. Before that, it was zombies. Right now it's all about the music, guitar music, played with buttons on a toy guitar and filtered through his PlayStation 2 and the speakers on his television. It's hard to explain but easy to pick up, Adamski says, like so many of the games that make up his addiction.

"A lot of exciting, innovative things are happening right now,"said Adamski, 17. "And that's what I really look for in games. Something new and different. Twists on old stuff."

Guitar Hero, a sort of musical, strumming version of Dance Dance Revolution, is the latest craze in the gaming community, said Adamski. By following patterns of buttons to push, ...

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