Tuesday, 24 November 2015

HA12 - Glossary

   

Genre: First-person shooter:

The first person shooter genre is a simple genre which has survived time being more and more popular by the day. The genre is given to games which are centered on gun combat and is played through the perspective of the protagonist. First person shooter games share traits with each other mainly because they are limited this is unavoidable.

Call of Duty Black Ops 3
Battlefield 4
Titanfall
Borderlands 2

Black Ops 3 Gameplay
First Person Shooter games typically use the same style characteristics, narrative structured and representation. 
The representation of the class menus in most first person shooters games are similar like this where you start a match with the option of picking 1 of your many classes to play with. These classes usually consist of  primary weapons, sidearms and equipment. Like you'd expect games like originality and with this game Black Ops 3 they have included Perks which give you extra ability's and wild cards which let you extend load outs.

As you can see in this video you are shown around the map and you will notice the objects, items such as posters and products are placed around the map on purpose to influence a player in my opinion this is a type of media and what you see is a selection of content from the developer mening its all their for a reason.

The Battlefield representation of the class menu is much smaller and more condense this is to show more of the map you will be playing on. They do this because they want to be a little different and show the player a preview of what is to come. Being smaller the screen looks much cleaner and gives the menu a better appearance.

Battlefield 4 Gameplay

As you can see in this video you notice ammo and the score are in similar positions on the screen as the other game Black Ops 3 these are codes and conventions which are used well in this genre.

Titanfall

If you skip to around 6:00 minutes of this video you can see this game has the same codes and convention showcase of the ammo of your guns, team score and map positions of the game Black Ops 3 and similar to Battlefield 4.
In the beginning of this video you are shown a narrative feature of the game which you can see shows the world and what the developers of the game think the future has to hold. This is a selection of content from the developers telling you what they want you know which is an influence of the viewers opinion. this can be taken as a form of media text in video form.

Borderlands 2

Borderlands 2 again uses similar codes and conventions of the previous games with the position of the ammo in the same position. 

http://gamestudies.org/1103/articles/michael_hitchens
I found a review of the first person shooter genre.

The First-Person Shooter (FPS) is a popular game form, with examples appearing on many different platforms. The genre has an almost two decade history and is represented by hundreds of commercial titles. While there has been extensive study of the FPS genre, this has tended to focus on particular games, or at best a limited set of examples. In order to provide a wider context for such work this paper surveys 566 separate FPS titles, across a range of platforms. The titles are compared by year of release, platform and game setting. Characteristics of avatars within the surveyed titles are also examined, including race, gender and background, and how these vary across platform and time. The analysis reveals definite trends, both historically and by platform.
http://gamestudies.org/1103/articles/michael_hitchens






                                                                                                                                

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