Sunday, January 27, 2008
Game Critique 2
In, Starcraft, you take a omniscient view. You have control over almost everything to do with your units, and decide where to build. During story mode you are limited in the beginning to what you can build and units you can create.
Some challenges that you face are the limited resources around the area as well as making sure that you protecting your forces. There is also a limitation on the amount of units you can have making it more difficult on the player. They have to then balance attack power, defenses, and gathering and building.
Certain races in the game have different specialties. Zerg are a faster race, with the ability to strike first, the Terran and Protoss get strong as the game goes on although the Protoss are a more expensive of the two. Due to this difference, when the player uses a different race they have to change their strategy, and a lot of players tend to only use one of the three races, because they can't find a strategy that works with the other races.
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, the view is in a third person. In this game you only have control over the main character, Link. Throughout the game you are faced with different puzzles and problems by getting different tools. Your character also gets more health and better equipment.
Problems that occur during the game are looking for arrows, health, and bombs. In certain areas it is harder to get items, and there are bottles that carry different items that can be changed. To get through the game you must constantly be using different items and bring different items to make sure you can get through the dungeons.
As the game gets harder you can upgrade certain weapons. With the boomerang you get at the beginning of the game which is blue you can throw it into the great fairy's pond and she returns it better than before, with a longer distance and a different color. Also there are a total of four swords that you could get in the game, the starting sword, the master sword, the upgraded master sword and if you through the upgraded one in the fairy's pond you receive the fairy sword. Getting these upgrades along with the player getting more use to playing the game makes it easier to get through the game .
The player is also challenged to find the solutions to different puzzles and also different weakness to each dungeon boss. Usually, the item found in that dungeon is the weakness to the boss but that is not allows the case.
Some challenges that you face are the limited resources around the area as well as making sure that you protecting your forces. There is also a limitation on the amount of units you can have making it more difficult on the player. They have to then balance attack power, defenses, and gathering and building.
Certain races in the game have different specialties. Zerg are a faster race, with the ability to strike first, the Terran and Protoss get strong as the game goes on although the Protoss are a more expensive of the two. Due to this difference, when the player uses a different race they have to change their strategy, and a lot of players tend to only use one of the three races, because they can't find a strategy that works with the other races.
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, the view is in a third person. In this game you only have control over the main character, Link. Throughout the game you are faced with different puzzles and problems by getting different tools. Your character also gets more health and better equipment.
Problems that occur during the game are looking for arrows, health, and bombs. In certain areas it is harder to get items, and there are bottles that carry different items that can be changed. To get through the game you must constantly be using different items and bring different items to make sure you can get through the dungeons.
As the game gets harder you can upgrade certain weapons. With the boomerang you get at the beginning of the game which is blue you can throw it into the great fairy's pond and she returns it better than before, with a longer distance and a different color. Also there are a total of four swords that you could get in the game, the starting sword, the master sword, the upgraded master sword and if you through the upgraded one in the fairy's pond you receive the fairy sword. Getting these upgrades along with the player getting more use to playing the game makes it easier to get through the game .
The player is also challenged to find the solutions to different puzzles and also different weakness to each dungeon boss. Usually, the item found in that dungeon is the weakness to the boss but that is not allows the case.
Monday, January 14, 2008
Game Critique 1
Game Critique of Starcraft & Kingdom Hearts
Starcraft which is a real time strategy computer game made by Blizzard Entertainment. Starcraft was a variation of Blizzard's already successful Warcraft and Warcraft 2. Starcraft brought some new and interesting aspects for game play. In the first two Warcraft games there were only two races to choose from human and orc. In Starcraft there were three races to choose from. Since all three races were very different from one another there was a lot of different strategies that could be used.
The game's story takes place over three campaigns one for each race and containing ten levels. There are also a lot of cheat codes for those that get stuck. But the thing that's makes Starcraft such an great game to play is the online play and custom maps. Some of the great maps include turret defense, where you just make turrets and defend against flying creatures, and the fastest map possible which allows everyone playing to get resources as fast as possible and get all the possible units and buildings. This makes it hard to know what your opponent is going to do.
Later on Blizzard released an expansion to Starcraft, adding new units and thirty new levels which made for many more possible strategies.
What I liked the most about this game is the editable of maps and being able to make your own maps. And I have spent countless hours online play with my friends.
Kingdom Hearts is an action RPG, developed by Squaresoft and Disney for the Playstation 2. Kingdom Hearts was one of the first games actions games that allowed the user to change the team of character they were using during the game. This allowed you to use the different abilities of the characters to make the game easier or harder. Its also had three choices at the beginning of the game to set up you characters main attributes, being attack, defense and magic. Depending on which you chose your character would start with different stats.
The game has an interesting story making a new alternate setting that includes classic Disney characters like Mikey, Donald and Goofy, with characters from Squaresoft's popular Final Fantasy series, such as Cloud from Final Fantasy 7 and Squall from Final Fantasy 8. There is a central plot for the game which takes place across multiple worlds, while at the same time there are stand alone stories within each world. The ending of the game finishes off the story but then starts another story which continues in the new sequels, Kingdom Hearts:Chain of Memories and Kingdom Hearts 2.
I spent a lot of time on this game. I found it enjoy to create and find new weapons and ships. The side quests and so many different stories makes it a good game with high re-play value.
Starcraft which is a real time strategy computer game made by Blizzard Entertainment. Starcraft was a variation of Blizzard's already successful Warcraft and Warcraft 2. Starcraft brought some new and interesting aspects for game play. In the first two Warcraft games there were only two races to choose from human and orc. In Starcraft there were three races to choose from. Since all three races were very different from one another there was a lot of different strategies that could be used.
The game's story takes place over three campaigns one for each race and containing ten levels. There are also a lot of cheat codes for those that get stuck. But the thing that's makes Starcraft such an great game to play is the online play and custom maps. Some of the great maps include turret defense, where you just make turrets and defend against flying creatures, and the fastest map possible which allows everyone playing to get resources as fast as possible and get all the possible units and buildings. This makes it hard to know what your opponent is going to do.
Later on Blizzard released an expansion to Starcraft, adding new units and thirty new levels which made for many more possible strategies.
What I liked the most about this game is the editable of maps and being able to make your own maps. And I have spent countless hours online play with my friends.
Kingdom Hearts is an action RPG, developed by Squaresoft and Disney for the Playstation 2. Kingdom Hearts was one of the first games actions games that allowed the user to change the team of character they were using during the game. This allowed you to use the different abilities of the characters to make the game easier or harder. Its also had three choices at the beginning of the game to set up you characters main attributes, being attack, defense and magic. Depending on which you chose your character would start with different stats.
The game has an interesting story making a new alternate setting that includes classic Disney characters like Mikey, Donald and Goofy, with characters from Squaresoft's popular Final Fantasy series, such as Cloud from Final Fantasy 7 and Squall from Final Fantasy 8. There is a central plot for the game which takes place across multiple worlds, while at the same time there are stand alone stories within each world. The ending of the game finishes off the story but then starts another story which continues in the new sequels, Kingdom Hearts:Chain of Memories and Kingdom Hearts 2.
I spent a lot of time on this game. I found it enjoy to create and find new weapons and ships. The side quests and so many different stories makes it a good game with high re-play value.
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