There is a danger of artistic license misrepresenting historical events, but it's a great way to get you interested in a subject and then do your own research , and certainly games succeed in capturing the sense of being in a place or moment in a way no other medium ...
The difference is that you don't usually have real-time on screen updates interrupting gameplay to show you your latest stats. You can look them up if you want to. The merits of achievements in general are debatable, but as long as you can turn off notifications, those who choose to ...
Bioshock and Arkham Asylum had these kinds of contextual reminders. If you're getting trounced because you're not countering Arkham reminds you that Y is for counter-attacks, if you keep running around with a nearly empty clip Bioshock suggest you might want to reload, etc... It's great because it doesn't come ...
If Microsoft wants to make its service more appealing it would help if they refrained from forcing GFWL on games using another platform, like Steam. Having to log onto two services for one game is highly inconvenient.
