The game will have a full campaign mode, complete with voice acting and a linear plot.
The ordering of events and scenes didn't follow the demands of chronology, nor those of an unfolding linear plot.
It meant giving up on the idea of a linear plot.
True, it has the leisurely pace and linear plot of a mediocre television movie, as if it were made to be perused rather than watched.
The play declines to offer a linear plot or make an argument, instead assembling a collage of the people, institutions, opinions and beliefs that together construct the city.
In the Sunday Times, Lucy Atkins summarised: "If you favour a nice, safe linear plot, Ali Smith is not the author for you.
With its linear plot, unliterary prose and freewheeling humour, Inherent Vice is early Pynchon condensed, simplified and sweetened - and usefully for Anderson, confined to a single community.
The exception to the franchise is that here a linear plot guides the action in an attempt to make the realism more accessible.
This is a sketch, a portrait, an evocation of mood and character, without regard to linear plot points.
All of the best-selling children's novels -- three of them the Harry Potter titles -- are 230 to 400 pages and emphasize a linear plot, vivid writing, a high degree of sophistication and a minimum of illustrations, if any.
There's not a lot of tension in the linear plot, as manager Alf Ramsey, scorched by the memory of defeat to the US in Brazil in 1950, vows to bring the cup home to England.
