In a world broken to its core, it's all the more important to celebrate works of digital art which showcase the best of what our species can do.
Case in point: Polish developer CD Projekt hits it out of the park with Witcher 2 -- medieval swords, sorcery, and political intrigue done right. A top-notch story drenched with Polish postcolonial history (the games are based on the fantasy fiction of prominent Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski), deep role-playing elements, superb music, set design and models, and excellent voice-acting make this the greatest role-playing videogame since Square's Final Fantasy 12.
It's noteworthy that studios in Poland, a semi-peripheral economy, were able to create the greatest zombie thriller of the past few years -- Techland's Dead Island (profiled here) -- and now the greatest role-playing videogame since 2006. This is a hopeful sign for the nations of the global semi-periphery and for the BRIC nations, which are all powering up their digital media industries at a very fast clip.
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