Are Video games Art?

The famous film critic Roger Ebert said that video games just use art in them but they are not art by them selves. I think otherwise. I belive video games are art.

Firstly, some people say that games don´t have a way to transmit emotions, but in fact they have one and it´s called "mechanics". The mechanics are the ways the player can interact with a game. If used properly, a game can make the player feel really involved in the action. Some action games like "Call Of Duty" or "Kill Zone" use it´s mechanics to make people feel like a killing machine, other games like "The Walking Dead" (From Telltale Games) or "Heavy Rain" wich core mechanics are based in decision making use mechanics to transmit a feeling of control to the user, there are games like "Spec Ops : The Line" a game in wich you have fun by throwing biological bomb in a battle field, just to later find out that you were murdering civilians.

In conclusion, video games deserve to be treated as an art form beacuse they can transmit emotions and points of view  through it´s mechanics.

Agustín Cortés II°B