Studio 1 & 2: Exploring Games and Idenitifying Games Concepts

Group members

Ateeb Shah (Me), Gary Blake and Manjit Ghatora

Rating (1-5)

1- Outstanding
2- Excellent
3- Good
4- Indifferent
5- Bad

Identifying the games concept

Mortal Kombat

The idea of the game is for the user to compete in a tournament called ‘Mortal Kombat’. Ultimately the good guys have to win in order to save the earth realm. The game has a wide array of characters with unique moves assigned to each of them.

The implementation that makes this game so good is its detailed story lines for each character, its high levels of blood and gore (combining rich graphics with relevant audio) and its fatality killing moves.
Genre: Beat-em-up Rating: 1

Halo

Game is set in the 26th century setting. User plays as Master Chief, a cybernetically enhanced "SPARTAN" super-soldier. Player must battle a horde of aliens, on foot and in vehicles whilst attempting to uncover the secrets of the Halo, a ring-shaped structure. These super soldiers have been assigned to protect the earth from the alien race, the Covenant.

The implementation which makes the game good is the detailed environment and the realistic graphics. The storyline is very engaging and gives the same impression of a movie.

Genre: 1st person shooter Rating: 2

Tekken

Again this game is based on a tournament where players from all over the world can compete. The tournament is held by Heihachi Mashima the owner of Mashima Zaibatsu. The winner of the tournament takes away a large purse of prize money and gains the title ‘The King of the Iron Fist’.

The implementation that made this game good was the wide variety of attacks players could perform. These attacks can also be combined to produce combos which would deplete the opponent’s health substantially.

Genre: Beat-em-up Rating: 2

Pro Evolution Soccer

This is a basically a football game whereby players can choose their favourite teams and compete in, world tournaments, exhibition matches and other types of competition.

The implementation that makes this game good is its realism. For example,the movement of the players, the face expressions and the physics around how everything is positioned and captured.

Genre: Sports simulation Rating: 1

Grand Theft Auto

Objective of the game is to build up your reputation as a ruthless gang leader. There are many ways in which this can be done e.g. completing missions set by other criminals, stealing, robbing, killing, establishing a name in different locations of the game.

The implementation that makes this game good is the freedom that the player has. Player can virtually do anything; go into any building, roam around as they please, kill anyone on the street, complete missions whenever and however they wish. Genre: Rating:

Genre: Action based RPG Rating: 1








Metal Gear Solid

The story is centered on Solid Snake, a retired soldier whose mission is to infiltrates a nuclear weapons disposal facility. The purpose of this is to neutralize the nuclear threat from FOXHOUND. The player has to go around the different locations and towards his objective using stealth, violent and strategic methods.

The implementation that makes this game good is because of the storyline and the motion capture behind the movement of each object and character in the game. There is a very high level of realism in the game in terms of player interactions.

Genre: Tactical espionage Rating: 1

References

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