Monday, January 18, 2010


Publisher: Electronic Arts
Developer: Electronic Arts
Platform: Xbox 360
Category: Action

Premise:
Saving the world by darkness by gaining army from being in a rock band.

Characters:
The man person is Jack Black. Jack has is army which has head bangers, muscle man, and groupies.

Play:
It is a hack and slash game. The character has to go around and defeat his enemies by waving his axe around. Jack has to summon his fellow members to help him defeat his enemies too.

Engagement:
The game has Jack Black telling jokes and brings out the character the he tries to bring out. The game features strategies for boss fights and other side missions. The player can also get upgrades for their weapon, armor, health, and other cool things.

Story:
Jack Black starts as a rowdy. He sees one of the band members in trouble so he saves him but cost of his own life. He wakes up in another world where he is very confused. He finds an axe and a woman where the both try to escape because skeletons are trying to kill him. He later finds on he must stop the dark from taking over this world and learn about his past too.

Resources:
The player's health and the player's amount of army the player controls.

Challenge:
The player must survive a lot of damage and keep up the rock so his army can jam to the music to fight the darkness.

Friday, January 8, 2010

Publisher: Electronic Arts
Developer: Valve Software
Platform: Xbox 360
Category: Shooter Publisher: Electronic Arts
Developer: Valve Software
Platform: Xbox 360
Category: Shooter

Premise
To kill all zombies in your way and to survive with your party.

Play
The play of the game is killing all zombies. The team must go through the game as a party and try to survive. They have to use different methods to kill all the zombies.

Engagement
The player has to kill the zombies. They have many different zombies that the player can kill. This makes the player to check what zombies the player has near him because the player does not want to go through recklessly and die.

Resources
The players health and ammo. The health involves the player survivability. If the health bar reaches 0 the player dies. The ammo is the bullets of the gun. If ammo reaches 0 the player can not shoot the gun the player must find ammo.

Challenge
The challenge of the game is to survive. The player has to deal a bunch of zombies that are running after him. The player must also worry about how much ammo the players have. The player must also worry about where he must go with his party.

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.