Week 1
This week was the first week of the new term. This was also the start of the learning from home via Zoom calls this makes the learning more difficult because I now have to contend with loud family members and crappy internet connections however, I have to give it to the lecturing staff that despite the technical difficulties they kept the classes moving and on task.
This week started with an introduction to new students, which I have already had last year but it was good to get a refresher on how the GSA operates and how the future of the GSA will run with the COVID-19 crisis and how this will affect the studios and the practical side of the course.
The rounded out with introduction in to two of the classes that I will be attending this year (the work with Adam and special audio with Ronan) these classes made me think about what I wanted to for those classes and the DN-HT with my plan is to 5000 words option about the correlation of storytelling in videogames and how we went from being purely gameplay videogame to big blockbuster games with a comprehensive look on the history of video game storytelling from 1980s to present day.
Weekly game review:
Marvel’s Avengers
Marvel’s Avengers is a third person beat-em up developed by Crystal Dynamics, Crystal Northwest, Nixxes Software BV, Eidos-Montréal and published by Square Enix for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X and Series S, Xbox One, Google Stadia, Microsoft Windows, where you play as all of your favourite avengers from captain America to the Hulk as well as new comer kamala khan AKA miss marvel as she comes in to here new powers and the fact that the world as pegged here ass a criminal before she ever had a chance.
The game combat and the gameplay are very basic and repetitive. This makes characters that should be really fun to play dull and irritating. The camera controls are ether aggravatingly slow or sickeningly fast with no midground. The story all be it predictable was enjoyable with some light hearted comedic moments
Rating
Gameplay 4/10
Story 6/10
Controls 5/10
Re-playability 2/10
Conclusion:
I was very disappointed in the overall experience with the is game as I know that the companies involved in the creation of this game can make fantastic games that immerse gamers in fantasy worlds and amazing campaigns. I was looking forward to this game for months, after getting that I was left feeling that it was not worth the £59.99 price tag for the standard digital edition. The other editions went up in price with the deluxe edition being £69.99 and the ultimate £79.00 none of these prices are worth it in the end. In my opinion I would avoid this one.