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Experiencing visual landscape in the sense of newer cultural geography means relating socio-cultural context and environment by individual sense-making. Landscape is therefore not considered pre-given, it is discursively constructed in the very moment of watching. In the context of digital landscapes, little is known of the individual sense-making. Do landscapes only set the scene in video games? Are affordances set on the horizon? Or do the players create their own ways of enacting? Our methodological approach to answer these questions is doubly experimental. First, we extend the method of text-based close reading in its variant of close playing to digital walk-alongs in the sense of geographical field research. In a second step we use the established inventory of image schemata for the annotation of key frames extracted from observed screencasts. As main findings, we found that it requires a certain skill level to enact landscape any different than simply compliant to the game mechanics. Secondly, we found that depending on the style of playing, landscape can be enacted as an aura that not simply frames the game as distant scenery, but also influences the mindset for all further interactions with the game.

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Assassin's Creed 1: Desmond Verlag: Splitter Erscheinungsort: Bielefeld Erscheinungsjahr: 2011 ISBN-10: 3868692622 Assassin's Creed 1: Der Untergang Verlag: Panini Erscheinungsort: Stuttgart Erscheinungsjahr: 2011 ISBN-10: 3862010937 Assassin's Creed 03: Accipiter Verlag: Splitter Erscheinungsort: Bielefeld Erscheinungsjahr: 2011 ISBN-10: 3868692649

Mit Metro 2033 – dem 2007 auf russisch erschienen Erstlingswerk von Dmitry Glukhovsky – und Metro 2034 , dem brillanten Nachfolger, wurde endlich wieder frischer Wind in das Gerne des „postapokalyptischen“ Romans gebracht. Mit den vorliegenden deutschen Fassungen und der Umsetzung in einem herausragenden Computerspiel können nun auch LeserInnen und/als SpielerInnen im deutschsprachigen Raum das das multimediale Grauen von Metro in analoge und digitale Erfahrung bringen. Gelingt das Kunststück die fesselnde Atmosphäre des Buches in die Videospielfassung zu transportieren?