There’s no doubting Hideo Kojima’s devotion to the art of video games. But one question that has followed the Metal Gear master around for much of his career is “Why doesn’t he just make a movie?”.

Not every game needs cutscenes to tell amazing stories, but the Metal Gear series has certainly made great use of them over the years. In fact, when talking about the appeal of these games, cutscenes ...

Modern games chase spectacle, but often strip player control at the most important moments, favoring cutscenes over true agency.

If there’s one thing that impatient gamers hate, it’s having to sit through long, annoying cutscenes. I mean, who has the time? Ok, in all seriousness, cutscenes can make for a great story arch, ...

Cinematics and cutscenes are commonly employed as vehicles for storytelling in games, often used to convey the spectacle behind special emotions and epic moments that simple gameplay is not able to.

Murillo Zerbinatto is a contributor from Brazil. He's an RPG enthusiast (with a focus on JRPGs) who has been around the world of games and content creation for more than five years now. He has a ...

x Your browser does not support the video tag. We gather every cutscene in Insomniac Games' Marvel's Spider-Man to bring you what's essentially a two-hour-and-a-half ...

Sarah has been an editor and contributor for GameRant since 2015. She kicked off her video game journey after meeting her first Chocobo, she never looked back. After years of playing them, she decided ...

Md has been working as a game journalist for the past seven years and has written for Screen Rant, DualShockers Game Pur, Spiel Times, and several other leading media outlets across the world. Elden ...