Monday, December 21, 2009




Publisher: Activision
Developer: Infinity Ward
Platform: Xbox 360
Category: Shooter

Premise:
You are a soldier trying to save the world.

Story
There are 2 sides of the game the terrorist and the soldiers. The terrorist are trying to destroy the world. The terrorist have to destroy important historical parts in the world. The soldiers have to save the world.

Characters
The player can pick his own classes of his choice. The classes can be unlocked through out the game and achieved by killing other people online.

Play
The game involves 2 different kinds of play. The multilayer and the story. The multilayer lets player fight other players online with each other. The story is 1 person that the player plays by himself.
Challenge
The player must rank up in order to unlock the classes the player prefers. In order to do this the player must fight other players online. Another challenge in the difficulty setting it can be really easy to really hard.
Engagement
The game takes off where the player must fight other people. First it takes the player through the basic controls so the player can play the game. This helps the player a lot. The player also can play online with their friends.
Resources
The health of the player can the ammo of the gun. In order to survive the player must have health. In order to shoot the gum the gun must have ammo.

Thursday, December 3, 2009







Publisher: Nintendo of America
Developer: Nintendo
Platform: DS
Category: Role-Playing

Premise:
The player has to be the best and caught all the Pokémon he sees.

Characters: The player can name his own character when the game starts. The game starts off as a young lad who is ready to starting journey. He has a rival that the player can name too. The player must fight gym leaders and trainers too.


Play: The player must go around the world and become a Pokémon master. In order to become the Pokémon master he has to train his Pokémon and defeat gym leaders and trainers.


Engagement: The game has many different features the engages the player. The player can see how many Pokémon the player can catch. How much money the player can get. The player can also make 2 Pokémon have a baby. The player can train the baby and fight with it.


Story: The story of Pokémon takes off with a young lad that the player can name. The player has to go through the game and become a Pokémon master. To train as they come to the player and fight trainers and gym leaders.


Resources: The resources are the health of the Pokémon. The health is the Pokémon is the Pokémon’s survivability.


Challenge: The challenge of Pokémon is collecting them all. Some Pokémon are more challenging to get. The father the player gets into the game the more is harder to find and to get them all. Another one are the gym leaders they also get harder to fight them later on in the game too.

Publisher: Nintendo of America
Developer: Nintendo of America
Platform: Wii
Category: Action, Platform


The premise:
The game is for Mario and his friends to rescue Princess Peach from Bowser.

Characters:
The characters are Mario Luigi, Blue Toad and Yellow Toad.


Play:
The game involves the player to run through the levels and defeat enemies.


Engagement:
The game has puzzles, monsters, and a high score system that lets the player be engaged. The player has to think what he or she would do now before the played makes an action.


Story:
Princess Peach was a birthday party when Bowser and his minions crashed Peach’s birthday and captured her. Now the player has to save Peach form Bowser.


Resources:
There are many different kinds of recourses in the game. The mushrooms let the player grow and have different powers. The fire flower lets the player shoot out fire. The ice flower lets the player shoot out ice. The green Mushrooms give Mario extra life. Lastly, The penguin suit allows the player not slide on the ice and shoot ice balls and the star makes Mario invincible. The items can be found by the yellow blocks in the levels.

Challenge:
The levels when the player begins are easy. It teaches the player what the game is about. Later on in the game the player has to figure out puzzles in the game that allow the player to move within the game.

Friday, November 13, 2009




Publisher: Blizzard Entertainment
Developer: Blizzard Entertainment
Platform: MAC, PC
Category: Massively Multiplayer, Role-Playing

Premise
Become a hero and save the world from darkness.
Characters
The player can be mage, hunter, warrior, rogue, warlock, druid, priest, and paladin.
Play
The play of the game is massive. The player as a choice to do pvp, pve, or the player can do both. Pvp stands for player vs. player. The player can fight other people in the world and try to be number one in the game. This takes practice on how to play the persons class. The pve stands for player vs. environment. The player fights NPCs that the game provides the player to beat.
Engagement
The engagement of the game is by how many people are online with the player. The player can find anybody to quest with, pvp with, or pve with. There is also the game play of the game. IN the game play the character is allowed to go anywhere. The player can attack anything the player wants or be friends with them. There is also the leveling system. The player finds out how to play his class and which skill tree he wants to go in.
Story
The world has been taken over and you try to stop it. Go through dungeons and get clues who behind the plot. When you collect all the clues put them together and find where to go next. Get the gear that drops and become stronger to fight the evil.

Challenge
What makes this game so unique is that there are bosses with different tactics in which the player has to defeat. There are many different fights that makes the players think how to defeat them. Test out different methods and see which works. Another challenge that players love is the player vs. player. People love fighting each other to try to beat the other player and be the best.
Resources
The game resources are the health and mana. The health is based on the characters life span in which he can increase is with new gear and is he is hurt use a health pot. The mana is how much the player can use his special abilities. He can increase his mana by gear and use a mana pot to gain it back up.
Behaviors
The behavior of the game is very intense. The player tries to be the best. The player tries to get gear while other people in the party cannot do the same actions you are doing. The player has to get all his comrades to follow him in order to get father into the game.

Friday, November 6, 2009




Publisher: Microsoft
Developer: Bungie Software
Platform: Xbox 360
Category: Shooter

Premise:
The player is an odst that was dropped from an airship that has to find out what happened to the city and to help out any way.
Character:
There are many different characters in the game the odst, grunters, hunters, arbitors, and sniper aliens.
Play:
The play of the game is fast pace and strategy. The player must make quick decisions and to kill the aliens fast or they keep on coming out. The decision making is to pick where to be and which gun to use for different aliens.
Engagement:
The player is involved where the surroundings keep on changing the aliens grow stronger and they get better guns. The player has a choice in level difficulty so he can set the game's level the way the player wants.
Story:
Something happened to the city and the captain is sending down odsts to see what happened. In their journey the fleet got attacked while going down. One odst is by himself that you. He has to find out what happened and get back to his team so they can work together.
Resources:
The resources are the health of the player and the ammo of his guns. The health is different by the odst is that is does not recharge like the other halos. The player must find health packs to get his health back.
Challenge:
The challenge is not to get shot at as much so he can stay alive. Find ammo packs so the player can get his health back. To find guns that the player can use to defeat the aliens that are attacking him.

Thursday, October 29, 2009



Publisher: Blizzard Entertainment
Developer: Blizzard Entertainment
Platform: MAC, PC
Category: Action, Adventure

Premise:
The Premise of the game is to be a hero and stop Diablo from taking over the world.

Characters:

There are many different types of characters that player can be. The characters are necromancer, sorcerer, barbarian, druid, and paladin. The necromancer has the power to raise the dead and control them. The druid uses different animal forms to crush his enemy. The sorcerer uses the elements to fight her enemy. The barbarian is a tank who uses his brute force to destroy his enemies. The paladin uses holy warrior who exorcisms his enemies.

Play:

The player has 2 choices ether to play online or play by himself. When the player plays by himself he has no contact with other players. When the player plays with other players the player can get help or complete missions with each other.

Engagement:

The engagement about the game is having the online contact. This makes the player is more involved in which character he or she chooses. This can create a bad party or a good party. Another engagement feature that the developers put in is the different type of classes. The player can find what type of class they like.

Story:

The story starts where Diablo is trying to take over the world. The player starts off as a traveler and he is asked if he wants to help save the world. The player must say yes to continue on. In this heroes’ adventure he is faced with many different types of challenges that he must to defeat in order to get to Diablo.

Resources:

The game resources are the health and mana. The health is based on the characters life span in which he can increase is with new gear and is he is hurt use a health pot. The mana is how much the player can use his special abilities. He can increase his mana by gear and use a mana pot to gain it back up.

Challenge:

The challenge in the game is fighting bosses. The bosses are a big thing in the game. This allows the player to get better gear and to use different strategies to fight them. Every boss has something different with them. It can be a different element of can summon creatures to attack the player.

Friday, October 23, 2009



Publisher: Nintendo of America Developer: Nintendo Platform: DS Category: Action, Platform
Premise:
The player is a cartoon character that is trying to save Princess Peach.
Character:
The player can be 4 characters. Yoshi, Mario, Luigi, and Wario.
Play:
The player is going through stages trying to get the stars to unlock the doors. The player needs to unlock the doors because Bowser kidnapped Peach anf the play is trying to save her. They must fight Bowser to get her back.
Engagement:
The player is very engaged with the game. The player has many levels to choose from and to have achievements with. The game involves switching between characters because they have different abilities. This makes the player more involved in the game.
Story:
Bowser kidnapped Princess Peach and you are trying to save her. The player must go through the levels and defeat the enemies.
Challenge:
The challenge is in the game is trying to collect the stars. Also in each level they have different stuff for different characters. This makes the player think which character to use.Resources:
The health of the player. The coins to regain health when the player gets hurt. The under water breathing if the player is in a water level.



Publisher:Nintendo of America
Developer: Nintendo
Platform: DS
Category: Action, Platform

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Publisher: Electronic Arts

Developer: Valve

Platform: Computer, Xbox 360

Category: shooter

Premise:

The player can be one of 9 cartoon characters in the game.

Engagement:

The game has different systems of play. The player can choose from capture the flag, capture the point, and arena. This makes a choice for the player to play his favorite type of game. The player has 9 different classes to choose from too. The player can pick his favorite class and not be stuck with a class he or she does not like.

Challenge:

The difficulty in this game is the other players trying to destroy you or beat you in points. It is how good the other players are versus you. The more time that the other players spend playing the game the harder it becomes to kill them or even you. This gives a sense of pride to the other players when they win.

Character:

There are 9 different types of characters the player can be. The first one is the spy. The spy is allowed to cloak and 1 shot other people from the back. The second is the scout. The scout has week defense but a strong attack. The third one is the Pyro. The Pyro uses fire for over time affects on the other person. The fourth one is the solider. The solider fires rockets at far range that explodes other people. The Fifth is the heavy. The heavy has a lot of health which allows him to stay alive. The sixth is the engineer with allows him to creates gadgets that help out the team. The eighth is the sniper which can shoot far distance. Ninth is the Demo which has proximity mines that allows him to be helpful to the team.
Story
There is no story to the game because the creators did not put one.

Monday, October 12, 2009

Publisher: Nintendo of America
Developers: Nintendo
Platform: DS
Category: Racing
Rating: E for Everybody


Objects:
The objects are the characters and carts that the player is allowed to pick from to race with. Items allow the player to attack or defend.

Behavior:


The behavior of this character is that the player has to race other players or NPCs.

Controls:
The controls are easy to use in the game. The controls to move the cart in Mario cart ds are simple to. Press X to move forward. The right bumper and left bumper allows the player to drift. The Y button is to use your weapons that the player has to use.



Economic:


The player gets items and points. The items allow the player to attack or defend him or herself. This lets the player to decide when he or she wants to use the items. For the points the player has to win races and stack up points by defeating the NPCs.



Premise:


The player is a cartoon character driving a car to defeat races in order to win trophies



Properties:


There are 8 characters that the player is allowed to choose from and there are 36 cars the player can drive with. The items have different abilities that can defend the player or attack with it.

Friday, October 2, 2009


Publisher: Blizzard Entertainment
Developer: Blizzard Entertainment
Series(s): Warcraft
Platform: Mac, PC
Category: Massively Multiplayer, Role-Playing
Rating: T Teen
Challenge
What makes this game so unique is that there are bosses with different tactics in which the player has to defeat. There are many different fights that makes the players think how to defeat them. Test out different methods and see which works. Another challenge that players love is the player vs. player. People love fighting each other to try to beat the other player and be the best.
The Merging Of Action and Awareness
The combat system is where the players are most aware. They absorb all the information that they need and take the necessary actions to make a decision. The player needs to be aware because the player needs to know what’s going on in its surroundings. The surrounding are important because the environment can ether help the player or hurt the player.
Clear Goals and Feedback
The game clearly defines its goals, and the player receives feedback from achieving these goals. The player sees the objective that he or she wants to complete. If the player competes the player gains something from that objective.
The Transformation of Time
The player has to know how fast his abilities go for and the other players too. The player has to know if the player can beat by how fast his abilities can go.
The Nature of Players
There are many different types of players that could love to play this game. There are achievements which the player s allowed to collect. The player can goof off and have fun with friends and o much more.
Objective
Defeat the Lich King and save the world from the scourge.
Character
The player is allowed to pick his or her race and the classes provided to play with.

Friday, September 25, 2009

Company: Bungie
Publisher: Microsoft
Platform: Xbox 360
Genre: First person shooter
Rated: M for Mature

Premise
To be the ultimate warrior named Master Chief who is trying to save the world.

Story
Master Chief has to save the world. He has to try to stop the aliens form activating the weapon that can destroy the word. With his allies behind him to back him up when there is need.

Rules
Have a health bar which allows the player not to be invincible. If the player dies the game restarts and makes the player to the last saved checkpoints. Sometimes the player is allowed to kill and destroy anything the player pleases. But in some cases the player can not destroy some aspects of the games environment.

Conflict
The player starts in a jungle with soldiers. The player has missions to complete to survive and complete objectives. In the jungle it shows the player how the controls are used and when to use them. This makes the player stay focus and to learn how to play the game.

Obstacles
The missions and objectives are the obstacles. It challenges the player to use different strategies and to think differently when the player is in combat. To fight your way through aliens and to take cover and use strategies.

Conflict
The player has to stop the aliens form using there weapon. To stop them from activating the weapon that can destroy the world.

Resources
Ammo for the guns that the player uses has to find and get them from enemies or weapons from any other allies. Another one is your health bar which allows you to live. If your health bar is down to 0 the player dies.

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Title: Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Developer(s): Sora Ltd.

Company: Nintendo of America

Games Genre: Fighting, Action

Rated: T for Teen

Platform: Wii


Premise

You’re a cartoon character that is fighting other cartoons.

Character

There are 35 characters that a player can pick to be. Diddy Kong, Ike, King Dedede, Lucario, Lucas, Meta Knight, Pikmin & Olimar, Pit, Pokemon Trainer, R.O.B., Solid Snake, Sonic the Hedgehog, Wario, Wolf, Bowser, Captain Falcon, Donkey Kong, Falco Lombardi, Fox McCloud, Ganondorf, Ice Climbers, Jigglypuff, Kirby, Link, Luigi, Mario, Marth, Mr. Game & Watch, Ness, Pikachu, Princess Peach, Princess Zelda, Samus, Toon Link, and Yoshi.

Story
There are 2 story modes that a payer can go through adventure mode and classic. Adventure mode the game picks a character. All of your friends gets trapped or captured and you have to save them by going through different stages. In classic the player is allowed to pick any of the characters he or she wants to play with. Still go through different stages but you fight other cartoons and trying to get the highest score.

Engagement

The online is a great feature to the game. It allows the player to fight with his favorite character with other people around the world. Also, the player can add his friends to his game and they can play anytime they want to. The game also has another great feature to it. The players are allowed to do co-op in story mode. It makes the story better by allowing the players can play with each other in the story.