Gratifying gameplay with STR

THE entertainment industry has always had a problem with originality, preferring instead to pile on copious amounts of movies with the same plots, the same actors and the same effects. The games industry hasn't been doing much better lately, giving us innumerable versions of the same game - think for an example, of Quake and the million and one other games that are exactly the same, with only a change of scenery to qualify them for their different titles. And now, in what seems to be like a Dante's Peak versus Volcano spoof, two games that not only have the same genre but the same premise and environment to boot are coming out to vie for consumers' attention. Now, while this gives us…