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7. There's A Cinematic Camera
Rockstar
Cinematic cameras have never really worked in other Rockstar games. Unless you're in the passenger seat of your friend's car in GTA Online - in which case the feature is safe to use - you'll find yourself crashing into obstacles left, right and centre, should you accidentally hit the button that switches perspective your car's front right tyre.
In any case, it's great that Rockstar haven't abandoned the camera, especially now that they've got the perfect setting in which to use it. Westerns have long been famed for their stunning vistas, experimental cinematic techniques and superb cinematography, so what better way to pay tribute to that than by giving players the option to frame the Old West just the way they want to?
Rockstar's games have always been uniquely cinematic, particularly with regards to storytelling and cutscenes, but giving players control over the camera in a title of relatively slower pace is sure to garner plaudits come October 26th.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
