https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/03/uncharted-lost-legacy-shows-filmic-games-still-screen-magic

Naughty Dog’s long-running, much-garlanded series aces the Bechdel test and breaks new boundaries with two female leads

Throughout the latter half of the 1990s, video games were often talked about as a looming threat to cinema. The advent of CD-Rom technology promoted the medium’s blocksome characters from avatars to actors, complete with lines of dialogue written by professional scriptwriters and spoken by performers loaned from TV and film. Soaring orchestral soundtracks backed three-act structures and, as games popped from 2D to 3D, the composition of scenes, lighting and lines of sight became concerns for digital directors as well as film.