No videogame fantasy setting will ever disquiet me as much as an empty business park at night under blue and yellow floodlights. A business park, or the access road down the side of a corrugated steel warehouse, where the alcoves cast by the LEDs look like a procession of hooded figures beneath the fixed, unblinking blackness of the sky. I can't actually be present in that scene, mind. I don't belong there. No being does, not even the people who come by day to fill the striped lines with cars...
