LO3 - ARK : Survival Evolved analysis

ARK Survival Evolved

ARK is a adventure, survival game with dinosaurs. It represents survival as you have a lot of things to keep an eye on to stay alive such as warmth, hunger, thirst and diseases, also you have a significant amount of dinosaurs out there trying to kill you. It is one of the top survival games apart related titles such as Minecraft, but ARK has other variants that others don’t have going into the prehistoric dinosaurs.    

There is no narrative to the game but you have an aim of staying alive and taming dinosaurs to help you along the way, building bases and collecting and creating supplies to help you stay alive and allow you to do more things. You’re creating the story as you go, and everyone’s is different. The audience controls the game, there fore allowing them freedom to do what they like, free roam games have grown in the past few years in popularity. 
   
The player is able to create the character themselves, it is fully customisable, you are able to change everything on the player, there are no other characters with in the game such as an NPC, the only other characters are the dinosaurs, which are skinned to look like the actual dinosaur it is meant to be.  The customisable character doesn’t affect the players attributes and symptoms of the players. All the characters are exactly the same apart from the appearance. The characters are meant to be like real life people would be, but time is sped up so the character gets a lot hungrier and colder quicker than normal but this is because it gives you more of a challenge to watch out for while you play. 

The challenges in the game are to keep yourself alive against the environment and dinosaurs which are out to kill you   

LO2 - Comparisons

Review Analysis

Game – Call of Duty : Ghosts

Genre – FPS / Action

Target Audience – Adults and young adults (16 – 21)

Narrative – Based on all other Call of Duty games

Characters –

Gameplay –  High quality on PS4, next gen consoles are no different to pre gen consoles, the gameplay has not changed

Platforms = All platforms but biased towards playstation as it is a playstation magazine and it favours the ability of PS4 being able to play in a better quality.

The written game review and the video review both stated Call of Duty: Ghosts as being an FPS/Action game. In the written review the author writes in a formal way which portrays it to be aimed at an older audience while the video review is less formal and the reviewer speaks his own opinions whether it is negative or positive and he does not limit the vocabulary he uses, so he swears in most of it. The author doesn't focus his piece on characters in game but e reviewer on-line uses characters from the previous games and the new one and combines them together to make jokes and to prove points. The on-line reviewer talks about the game play as if it is a joke along side it being the same in every other call of duty but they have added one extra addition, while the author has to give positive standings about the game as he has to be professional and he can not republish the magazine. With the introduction of the next generation consoles the gameplay is different due to the different capabilties of the consoles. The PS4 version on Ghosts is alot more advanced and can with stand alot more high def material while the xbox one can't handle the same as a PS4. The previous generation of consoles such as Xbox 360 and PS3 have to be made with different capabilites as they can't withstand the same amount of graphical capabilities as the new ones.