Luciferjones

Central not just to notions of montage but to cinematic form across techniques and styles is the the forging by directors and editors of distinct dramatic pacing; the deliberate construction of pace, speed, pause and velocity out of the temporal nature of cinema as a time-based medium. Of course editing - the duration of shots, the sequence of shots, the speed at which shots are changed - is central to the construction of pacing.

But what about pacing in gaming, particularly first-person shooter genre games where there is no traditional editing but rather a singular long-take (aside form periodic chapter delinated, non-interactive cut-scenes)?

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