EA have been caught Photoshopping their promotional shots. Well either that or there's a slice-the-opponent-in-half move in NBA Live '08.

I'm only two months off being 28 years old so I've been gaming for quite a while. I remember thinking River Raid was the greatest game ever. When I first saw Super Mario Kart, I really didn't think graphics could get any better. Of course I was young, naive and thick as fuck.

But the thing about nostagia is it's a dirty liar. Nothing is ever as good as you remember it (except the movie Commando, which is even better now than it was when I was eight).

This is my long-winded, barely relevant way of making the point that we gamers have never had it as good as we do now. We really haven't. You can complain about a lack of originality, movie tie-ins always being shite and annual sports sims that offer no more than a roster update (I'm looking at you Madden, FIFA and PES) and you are absolutely right. But overall games are fucking amazing in this day and age. I never imagined that I'd playing what I'm playing now when I first picked up my joystick *insert double entendre*.

I remember promotional screenshots looking fuck all like the actual game back in the day but you could forgive it then because all the games looked shit. But now? When in-game graphics look this glorious do you really need to doctor them to sell them?

I dunno. Maybe I'm getting wound up over fuck all but it just seems like such needless dishonesty.