From what I deciphered, Citizen Kane is considered the best because it was most inflential for it's time. There's too many influential video games to be awarded C.K.
He also goes on to list the CK recipient has to have awesome narrative, told in a way that explores the gray areas. Again, too many video games with this criteria.
Citizen Kane was also praised for it's technical aspects, as well as borrowing other forms of art and implementing them into the film. Once again, this is impossible to narrow down to one video game as every title he listed met this criteria - Mario, Doom, Super Metroid, Shadow of the Collosus, Half-Life and Bioshock. It's easy to narrow the CK award to each genre, but for every video game? Impossible.
While I read the article, I was thinking about Heavy Rain and what the game offers - awesome narrative through 4 different points of view, being able to control what you're character is thinking, and an aesthetic style that takes everyday emotions into raw form. CK qualifier? Sure thing, but unlike movies where there's no interaction, I think gameplay has to be a requirement and since I have yet to play the game, it's impossible to judge.
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