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Write a short report on at least 6 different game genres using an example of a game for each.
Brief Description: Sonic the Hedgehog, was a platform game series released in 1991. Basically, Sonicâs running through the game's levels collecting rings to gain lives and points, hitting boxes for upgrades, in order to stop Doctor Robotnik. Sonic can run, sonic dash and jump with the use of springs, ramps, and loops to propel him thru the stage at high speeds.
Target Audience: Sonic had a rating of âEâ, which stands for everyone. Basically good for anyone of any age, for serious or lighthearted fun.
Purpose: Basically, Sonic went through obstacles and sub bosses saving friends, upgrading and getting stronger to stop Doctor Robotnik from taking over the world.
Other Info: Since 1991 to 2017, Sonic the Hedgehog has featured in over 60 different versions or remade versions over every gaming platform, from Sega, Sony, Microsoft, PC, and Mobile devices. From 2007 to 2016, Nintendo brought out a Mario and Sonic Series for DS, 3DS, Wii and Wii U.
Brief Description: Guitar Hero is a music rhythm game series when using a guitar controller with 5 different coloured fret buttons are pressed, create the sounds to complete the song to complete stages.
Target Audience: The original Guitar Hero has a rating of âEâ which stands for everyone, however, statistics show 90.35% are males ranging from 18-39 years old.
Purpose: To play a note, the coloured fret button and strum bar must be pressed when the solid note scrolls through the corresponding ring at the bottom of the screen.
Other Info: In 1998, the first Guitar Hero World Championships were held at the World Cyber Games in Cologne, Germany. Winner was George âMonkeyâ Boothby from the UK.
Brief Description: Need for Speed (2015) allows the player to build their desired car through deep visual and performance customisation all in real time and simulation. There's five different methods of progression that allows the player to create their own unique story, that can overlap across multiple paths, as they become the man!!
Target Audience: This game will suit car racing enthusiasts. It has a T rating for TEEN. Content is generally suitable for ages 13 and up.
Platform: PC, XBOX One, PS4
Purpose: The overall focus is on deeper levels of car culture than any previous Need for Speed title, and is centred around the player's car. The idea is basically the same as all the other NFS titles, get your car, fully customised, win the races, to rule the streets, and be crown the king of streets, become the ultimate icon.
Other Info: In 2014, DreamWorks and Reliance Entertainment, produced, âNeed for Speedâ the movie which is based on the video game series of the same name by Electronic Arts. Need for Speed was released by Touchstone Pictures on March 14, 2014, in 3D!!
.Game Genre: Stealth-Action-adventure
Brief Description: The game centers around the use of a machine called the "Animus", which lets the user view the genetic memories of his or her ancestors, centering around a bartender named Desmond Miles. Desmond relives the memories of his Assassin ancestor, AltaĂŻr Ibn-La'Ahad who lived in the Holy Land during the Third Crusade. The game details of a battle between two ancient sects, the Knights Templar and the Assassin Order who both are looking for an artifact known as the "Piece of Eden."
Target Audience: AC has a lot of blood related scenes, high violence, sexual content, use of language, so comes with a ESRB rating - M (Mature).
Platforms: Xbox 360, PS3 and PC
Purpose: The overall goal of the game is to rise through the ranks of the Assassin Order by carrying out a series of assassinations given by the leader of the Order, Al Mualim. In doing so, AltaĂŻr travels from Masyaf to cities in the Holy Land, specifically Jerusalem, Acre, and Damascus.
Other Info: In 2016, Assassinâs Creed became an action adventure film based on the video game franchise of the same name. The film is set in the same universe as the video games but features an original story that expands the series' mythology, taking place during the Spanish Inquisition.
Game Genre: First-person Shooter
Brief Description: This game is the successor to id Software's Doom. In the game, you must find your way through various maze-like medieval enviroments while battling a variety of monsters using a wide range of weapons
Target Audience: T for Teen + - 13 years and older, generally men.
Platforms: PC, Sega Saturn, N64
Purpose: In single player mode, you have to explore an navigate to the exit of each level, killing monsters, finding secret areas for ammo, usually flicking switches or finding keys in order to open doors, entries or exits. Finish all the episodes to unlock the exit doors to the next pathway.
Other Info: Before you access an episode, there's a set of 3 pathways with easy, medium and hard skill levels. There's also a fourth level hidden because in 1996, it was deemed so bad it had to be hidden. Find the water, drop through, voila, the water's basically a portal to the fourth entrance, go into a secret passage to access it!
Game Genre: Puzzle video game
Brief Description: Join Tiffi and Mr. Toffee in their sweet adventure through the wonderful Candy Kingdom!! Switch and match your way through hundreds of levels in this delicious puzzle adventure.
Target Audience: 60% of players are female ranging from 10 years old to 65 years old. 25% are females ranging from 21-35 years old.
Platforms: Browser, Android, iOS
Purpose: In the game, you complete levels by swapping coloured pieces of candy on a game board to make a match of three or more of the same color, eliminating those candies from the board then they get replaced with new candies.. Matches of four or more candies create unique candies that act as power-ups with larger board-clearing abilities. Boards have various goals that must be completed within a fixed number of moves or limited amount of time
Other Info: Players can buy special actions to help clear more difficult boards, from which King makes its revenues. Around 2014, over 93 million people were playing Candy Crush Saga, while revenue over a three-month period as reported by King was over $493 million. Five years after its release on mobile, the title has been downloaded over 2.7 billion times, and has been one of the top-ten grossing mobile apps for four years.
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